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A flyer for "How AI is helping - and harming - animals", 30 Sept, LSE.

Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Forthcoming (early 2026) *The Science of Lost Worlds* (BSPSOpen/UCalgary Press). Featuring illustrations by Jim Robins and philosophy by um me!!!

Thought I’d come across an excellent typo, “criticaster”, only to discover that in fact this is a word and indeed a superb one.

Alison Wylie awarded honorary doctorate by Erasmus University Rotterdam Philosopher of science Alison Wylie was awarded an honorary doctorate for her contributions to the philosophy of science during the 111th Dies Natalis on Nov. 8

Warm congratulations to Alison Wylie and good pick, Rotterdam! I learned of Alison’s work in the early 2000s when what she did, philosophy of archaeology plus feminist theory, seemed totally out of the norm in our discipline. But she did what she believed in and now it’s (almost) mainstream. Bravo!

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Book reviews assigned to an issue are always free to read for six months at Philosophical Psychology. Here Andra Meneganzin reviews Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene Social Contract doi.org/10.1080/0951... #FreeAccess #philsky

What would imaginary ancestors do? Thought experiments and intuitive plausibility in human cognitive evolution - Biology & Philosophy The reconstruction of the evolutionary history of human cognition is a complex, interdisciplinary science. Human evolutionary theorists generally use a wide variety of evidential sources to construct ...

Sometimes when we’re trying to explain the evolution of human cognition we rely on intuitive judgements about how our ancestors thought that our current cognition might not be well-suited to make, or so argues Margaret Farrell in this cool new paper… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#ISHPSSB2025 has been an absolute blast! Here we celebrate the work and mentorship of Marc Ereshefsky, a truly positive model for philosophy of biology! Thank you all for coming along! Cheers to Marc!

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Friends of the Historical Sciences Dinner: Porto edition! #ish

Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky

Want to do a master’s in philosophy in Aotearoa (New Zealand)?

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Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Nope, but its open access sooooo

Great paper on the degrees and levels of innovativeness, contributing to the ongoing debate on how to compare innovations & the ability to innovate !!
(Nb. to be distinguished from the propensity to invent, which we are studying in chacma baboons @animalinvention.bsky.social ).

Coming *very* soon #philsci

Oooo Charles Pence & Daniel Swaim are putting together a special issue on the philosophy of the historical sciences (and you can publish in French!).

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Old John Stuart's Mill - A Philosophical 5e/DCC Adventure Taught at the U of Calgary and featured on GenCon panels, this thrilling adventure for D&D and Dungeon Crawl Classics is the first in a campaign that educates on philosophy through tales of ancient El...

DnD + philosophy + specifically tailored & tested for classroom use? Yes please.

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Cover of a hardback with mud bubbles, title is Science for a Fragile World by Robert Northcott

Imagine two worlds. In one, laws, causal relations, and mechanisms are stable. In the other, they are fragile and unreliable. Our actual world is a mixture of the two, but for many of the things we care about most, the relations that matter are fragile. Science for a Fragile World offers a novel re-examination of theory and empirical investigation, opening a new view, and path, for scientific expertise. The ubiquitous fragility in our world means that a successful model or theory in one instance may fail in another: we must re-establish what works on a case-by-case basis through narrow-scope empirical investigations. Espousing a "Case Worker'-as opposed to a Stability-Theorist— approach, this book delves into the impact of fragility in key case studies: economics, big data, and epidemiological modeling in the COVID-19 pandemic. Cutting through the strictures of the classic scientific realist debate, Northcott warns against grand unified theories and makes a thorough case for a science which emphasizes practical know-how and informal knowledge

Robert’s book has arrived! Very proud of him and recommend it to you all enthusiastically. The mud bubbles on the cover are a metaphor for fragility, a central concept organising the argument. #philsci #philsky

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929 Can't sign in? Forgot your password?

For the cog sci folks out there, a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B @royalsocietypublishing.org: ‘Selection shapes diverse animal minds’. Collection of papers focusing on diversity of evolved animal cognition, from nematodes to primates.

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New special issue in HPLS! Rethinking the History of Microbiology, edited by Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva & Mathilde Gallay Keller.

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SPSP Newsletter # 23 June 2025

The new Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Newsletter is out! #philsci sway.cloud.microsoft/JS1vkVhu2qDA...

Promotional image for the call for applications for an academic workshop titled “Behavior Across the Tree of Life: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges.” The topic is Comparative Behavioral Biology, organized by Gianmaria Dani, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, and Grant Ramsey (Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven). Invited speakers include Kristin Aleklett (Lund University), Silvia Guerra (University of Padua), Tobias Starzak (Ruhr University Bochum), and Kirsty Y. Wan (University of Exeter). The call for applications lists a submission deadline of July 14th, 2025, and a notification date of July 18th, 2025. Abstracts of max. 500 words (excluding references) are invited from philosophers and scientists. Contact emails for submissions are provided. The poster features circular images of fungi, microbes, a phylogenetic tree, ants on a leaf, and a carnivorous plant.

What challenges emerge when investigating #behavior across the tree of life? We have an open CfA for a workshop on comparative behavioral biology (Sept. 26-27). Scientists & philosophers are welcome! Please help us spread the word! 📢👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #evosky #HPbio #Paleosky

Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society

Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’

Deadline: 30 June 2025
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Sorry, Exeter’s website is… dumb. This link should work: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Thankyou I never twittered so also don’t know how to Bluesky

3 year postdoc in STS of health (“health” and “STS” construed broadly) here at Egenis! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Georgi Gardiner - Helen Helen De Cruz is a trailblazer for creative, avant-garde approaches to thinking in community with others. This event celebrates her work. On Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/6185944474 Tues June 24t...

From organiser Georgi Gardiner on FB: "Next week people will gather online to celebrate the philosophical artworks of Helen De Cruz. (@helendecruz.net)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
11am - 12.20pm Central US Time
(i.e. 5pm BST) on Zoom

All welcome! No background knowledge required."

Philosophy of Science job at University of Bristol!
Lecturer in Philosophy (Fixed term)
AOS: Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Mathematics
AOC: Philosophy of Science, Phil Mathematics, & Logic
Deadline: June 30, Start: September 2025
#PhilJobs #PhilSky #PhilSci
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How very dare you (shade from link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

Research Articles The Price Equation Since Price: An Accessible Account and a Generalization to Categorical Variables Stephen Francis Mann 2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 1 Plant Individuality: A Physiological Approach Özlem Yilmaz and John Dupré 2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 2 Sex and the Riddle of Variability Sarah S. Richardson 2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 3 Generalized Selected Effects Functions and Ecology Antoine C. Dussault and Frédéric Bouchard 2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 4 Debiasing Collection in Field Biology Derek Halm and Carlos Santana 2025-06-11 Volume 17 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Article 5

Check out our latest issue with some outstanding papers from outstanding authors! As always, we are fully #openaccess, free for both authors and readers.

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