Helene Scott

Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025.
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Applying for Ph.d. programs ​These notes were developed over the years for the annual "Applying to a PhD program" session for Simon Fraser University Philosophy MA students. This offers a perspective on how to prioritize your...

We're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions
#philsky #philsci

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Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.

#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky

Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice Mary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy...

New paper out jointly with the formidable @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social in a volume edited by Pietro Gori honouring Mary Hesse: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

🎉 can’t wait to dig into this book - and to add it to my syllabus for philosophers-to-be. The glimpses I’ve seen are full of exciting ideas, and I’m sure the full thing is even richer. #sts #philsci

🙌 to @adrian-currie.bsky.social and @phieveigl.bsky.social for pulling this into existence

Man in front of slides, balloons on a table by the side. Very fancy room with two human sized portraits and polished wooden floors

Woman in front of slide, holding a balloon into the air. Slide reads: solidarity, space, experience, embodiment, languages, plurality of identities.

@anatoliikozlov.bsky.social taught me this: no better way to disrupt academic stiffness than bringing 🎈into the conversation.
Pre-action shots from the beautiful @britishacademy.bsky.social before we forgot about our phones in all the excitement of moving and talking
#researchculture #sts #ECR

“There is a whole world of unheard voices and unsought inspiration waiting to inject freshness and novelty into philosophers.”
✨ Yes ✨
#philsky

Lecture hall, slide showing BA ECRN National Post Doctoral Conference 2025

Today we’re taking the #CultureLab to @britishacademy.bsky.social - to set a tone of connection and joyful energy at the BA ECRN National Postdoctoral Conference ✨ celebrating the wonderful promise of early career, and creating support networks for the difficult bits.
@anatoliikozlov.bsky.social

Finally, Richard Long’s Rock installations (~1980s). On making traces in the real world as an art (and philosophical?) form - and how we display this after the fact? On making the ordinary noticeable by organisation and classification. And on stones as nature, ressource and symbol.

Second: Cildo Meireles’ Babel (2001). On how we tell the history of technology, on noise and ways of attending to sound, on the transition from a technology of resistance to one of state communication, and on the return of chaos as the return of the need for households to have transiter radios.

First work: Rothko’s black on maroon (1958). On how the quiet and unsettling can call us to connect. On the uncomfortable of emergent objects and on restaurant, museums and universities as ambiguous places between consumption and contemplation #sts

Start-of-year awayday with @stsucl.bsky.social - we’ll kick off at Tate Modern, discussing the relations between sts and art, before we head into workshopping AI issues and large scale teaching formats ☀️

Adrian Research Fellowship, a 3-4 year paid Postdoc in any area of philosophy at Darwin College, Cambridge U, invites applications if w/in 3 yrs PhD. Submit app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/dar...
by 3 October 2025.
www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/

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#PhilSci #PhilJobs

This looks like an exciting new steering committee - not least because I spot several members with an interesting in the intersection between qualitative empirical methods and #philsci 👀✨

Also worth noting that @msuarez.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the same volume on *Inference and Negative Analogy* – and broken bones, of course 🦴.
#philsci
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

For anyone interested in her early ideas, @loadofbunk.bsky.social just published an exciting chapter on this 🙌 bsky.app/profile/load...

Book title pages, Science and the human imagination - Aspects of the history and logic of physical science. Mary B. Hesse, lecturer in mathematics in the university of Leeds. SCM Press LTD

Today, working from Whipple Library in Cambridge to do research on Mary Hesse.
Here is her first book (1954) addressing the compatibility of science and religion, with early thoughts on operationalism and models - pushing against established positivist accounts of science.
#philsci #hps

View out of window. Messy back courtyard. In reflection silhouette of women wearing white shirt and holding a phone to take the photo.

Returning to online life to share a photo from my new office - 1st day at @stsucl.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥
Can’t wait to get into teaching and research and wonderful conversations in this place!

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs
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Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

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philjobs.org/job/show/29506

Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race
#philsci #philtech #philjobs

👀 🙌 can’t wait

I wanted to pass this on to a few people, but the link takes me to "Business development manager - Corporate Partnership", and I as much as I think STS is a versatile field, I don't think those are quite the same profiles.
Could you send the link in a message or email so I can spread the word? 🙌

Man adjusting framed photo on yellow brick wall. Several photos with people writing and performing.

Sign with text: Living science, workshops and event, March 2025 For the Cambridge festival, a group of PDN postdocs produced a live performance reflecting on life in the sciences and the role of trust and time - or lack thereof - in their day-ro-day. The performance came together by working as a group through a series of creative exercises facilitated by the CultureLab.

Prosecco bottle, cup, rainbow keychain with PDN logo.

Celebrating traces of the CultureLab at @pdncambridge.bsky.social with a mini exhibition of images from the Living Science performance 🥂🧬🥼🔬✨ #sciart @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social

Perhaps of interest to you @miguelohn.bsky.social and @cristianlarph.bsky.social 📏

In silico clinical trials: concepts and early adoptions - PubMed Innovations in information and communication technology infuse all branches of science, including life sciences. Nevertheless, healthcare is historically slow in adopting technological innovation, com...

International Philosophy of Medicine Online Reading group starts up again this week!

This term we are focusing on articles rather than a monograph over several meetings

Meetings are Weds at 5pm and Thurs at 9am UK time

Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

Please share widely!

I love this! Resisting established dynamics and demonstrating attention to nuance and detail with a return to the ‘ordinary’ and unflashy. May birdwatchers invent the next big online platform.

Had a wonderful afternoon yesterday, borrowing/testing a new format: Walking seminar discussing co-creation and #STS methods (🖇️Mol).
My conversation path touched questions of extractivism, the problem of neat ideals of collaboration, and the always central “what for?” in methods.

Surprise in Science: A qualitative study - Erkenntnis A growing literature in philosophy of science focuses on the role of surprise in scientific practice. The aesthetic dimension of science is also gaining momentum in very recent discussions. While surp...

Excited to see more #PhilSci scholars employing diverse methodologies in their work. To that end, in our paper we used qualitative data analysis to understand the role of surprise in science.

#aestheticsofscience #surprise #qualitativemethods

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