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Oscar Olivetti

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Estudiante de doctorado | Filosofía de la Ciencia | Tengo un blog https://oiuhukt.github.io/failosophy/

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Open access book on material aspects of ancient philosophy:

brill.com/display/titl...

#philsky #philosophy #ancientphilosophy #openaccess

10.11.2025 22:44 — 👍 36    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

yup

02.08.2025 03:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The polycarbonate body, translucent blue casing: not plastic, polycarbonate, reinforced for both durability and aesthetic precision. Not afraid of looking like a toy because it knows exactly what it is: a precision instrument, a rugged tool disguised in playful irreverence

01.08.2025 23:38 — 👍 225    🔁 12    💬 11    📌 0

I am so grateful to read this thoughtful and interesting review of my book! I love the way that it focuses on "interdependence," a concept central to the land ethic and to environmental conservation in general.

🌱🐋 🌎 📗

10.06.2025 18:45 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Your School House Rock moment.....

08.05.2025 20:00 — 👍 30412    🔁 5555    💬 487    📌 163
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Not Like Us - Wikipedia

if you don't want to celebrate star wars, there was another famous battle that got settled in an explosive fashion today, one year ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Lik...

04.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 165    🔁 45    💬 3    📌 5
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

04.05.2025 06:21 — 👍 18581    🔁 6324    💬 248    📌 279
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Science and the Public I was awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. Early in my Ph.D. program, I mentioned to a more senior graduate student that I was interested in how science relates to society. This student explained t...

Check out my post in the APA's Public Philosophy Blog on the idea of "responsive science"--addressing science's obligations to society by combining diversified professional participation and increased public participation in science. #philsky #philsci #scicomm #science

24.04.2025 16:47 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Philosophers: spread the word!! Full-time research postdoc, 3 year job in St Andrews-Arché within the Leverhulme-funded WIKI project:

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply by clicking the link above, *check* the Further Particulars attachment there for details. Deadline: May 2.

21.04.2025 16:05 — 👍 48    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 0
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From tomorrow - the Josiah Royce Lectures at Brown.
Apt choice by Brown Philosophy of the photo of me in a western shirt. Royce was born in Grass Valley in the Sierra foothills (California), in 1855.

21.04.2025 15:17 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Another reminder that this online event will take place this Friday. I might be alone representing the West Coast (it's at 7am PT) but hope colleagues from other time zones consider stopping by and joining the discussion. My talk will be not-so-subtly titled "Replication Is (Not)".

21.04.2025 21:14 — 👍 38    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1

That damn final sentence.

10.04.2025 16:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wish there were more work on Stebbing. Added to the reading list

10.04.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey people at #portfolioday ! I’m Rain and these are my works! I’m happy to work with book art and posters! Check out my website for more> www.rainwang.work

Contact: redrgenmann@gmail.com

09.04.2025 16:52 — 👍 947    🔁 232    💬 11    📌 3

Neither in books, but we git the point

09.04.2025 18:21 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today is a great day. I got a washing machine.

09.04.2025 18:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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