Victoria Wang

Victoria Wang

@vmywang.bsky.social

Perpetual student. Constantly confused and/or curious. Currently in Scotland, doing a PhD in philosophy.

965 Followers 2,156 Following 134 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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1 week ago

Is this the first time since Louise Bennett started publishing that she isn’t on this list?!

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Photo of the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh: a late gothic revival skyscraper 42 storeys high, with some naked trees and a winter-barren lawn in the foreground, before an azure sky.

Getting ready for a weekend of philosophy at the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh @center4philsci.bsky.social

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2 weeks ago

Thank you for the boost, Michela!

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Dear EPSA25 participants, We are delighted to announce that the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science will be publishing a Topical Collection containing selected papers from the EPSA25 conference. Please consider submitting your paper. Submission is open to anybody who was accepted for presentation or poster presentation and attended the conference. The special issue will be edited by Julie Jebeile, Vincent Ardourel and Hannah Hilligardt. The submission deadline is 15 June 2026. To submit please go to the EJPS submission page (https://www.editorialmanager.com/epsa/) and select “EPSA25” from the drop-down list. If you have any questions please send them to: julie.jebeile@unibe.ch We very much look forward to receiving your contributions. All the best, The European Philosophy of Science Association

📣 CFP for a topical collection containing selected papers from the *EPSA25* conference:

philsci.eu/page-1075762 #philsci

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The Sixth Biennial Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science - Sciencesconf.org Home

There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026).

Submission deadline: 15 February!

Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org

#philsci

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Picture of an entrance to a pharmacy: one sign pointing to the left reads “health services”, and another sign pointing to the right reads “wellbeing services”. Some hand sanitisers in the bottom left corner.

There’s a philosophical joke about (sickly) constitution here somewhere…

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Picture of an entrance to a pharmacy: one sign pointing to the left reads “health services”, and another sign pointing to the right reads “wellbeing services”. Some hand sanitisers in the bottom left corner.

There’s a philosophical joke about (sickly) constitution here somewhere…

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What’s your email? I can send it over!

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This is happening in two weeks and I can hardly contain my excitement! 💙📚

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✨Reminder✨ The symposia deadline for PSA 2026 is 15 January (this Thursday!)

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We're hiring! We're looking for a relief bookseller to join us for a minimum of 3 hours per week, fixed term Feb-Jul 2026. For more information on the role and on how to apply, visit this blog post here! Closing at 10am Monday 26th January lighthousebookshop.com/posts/were-h...

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Registration is open for this event 16-17 March @royalsociety.org with programme (titles and abstracts) available online: royalsociety.org/science-even.... In person and online.

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Oh Gayle 🥹 all the very best!

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Happy new year! If you are early career or graduate in Phil of Bio, consider European summer school below: fantastic venue, brilliant mix of junior & senior scholars, a wealth of debates, PPTs & skills training organised by @thomasreydon.bsky.social and myself. Deadline EXTENDED to 31 Jan! #philsci

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) Sea View, mid-1820s Watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper Turner is renowned for his unique and inspiring sense of colour. Here the clouds span the spectrum of a rainbow - from orange-red and gold, through apricot and pink tones to intense blue and violet. The sun catches the boats in the foreground, turning their sails gold against the deep green waves. The location of the view is unknown. Turner painted studies such as this for his own reference and enjoyment; they seem to express his sense of wonder at the drama and beauty of nature. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) The Piazzetta, Venice, 1840 Watercolour, bodycolour and ink with scraping out on paper A crack of lightning streaks the sky above the Piazzetta, the historic heart of government in Venice, and bystanders run for cover. The city of canals captured Turner's imagination more than any other place. This watercolour dates from his third and final visit in August 1840. Beyond the statue of the winged lion of St Mark, the Doge's Palace glows amber in the uncanny light. A section of St Mark's Basilica shines ghostly white. Turner created the white highlights by scratching the paper surface. He is said to have used 'his eagle-claw of a thumb-nail' for this purpose.

Starting off the year with a visit to the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social in Edinburgh to see the Turner watercolours only on view in January #JMWTurner

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) Sea View, mid-1820s Watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper Turner is renowned for his unique and inspiring sense of colour. Here the clouds span the spectrum of a rainbow - from orange-red and gold, through apricot and pink tones to intense blue and violet. The sun catches the boats in the foreground, turning their sails gold against the deep green waves. The location of the view is unknown. Turner painted studies such as this for his own reference and enjoyment; they seem to express his sense of wonder at the drama and beauty of nature. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) The Piazzetta, Venice, 1840 Watercolour, bodycolour and ink with scraping out on paper A crack of lightning streaks the sky above the Piazzetta, the historic heart of government in Venice, and bystanders run for cover. The city of canals captured Turner's imagination more than any other place. This watercolour dates from his third and final visit in August 1840. Beyond the statue of the winged lion of St Mark, the Doge's Palace glows amber in the uncanny light. A section of St Mark's Basilica shines ghostly white. Turner created the white highlights by scratching the paper surface. He is said to have used 'his eagle-claw of a thumb-nail' for this purpose.

Starting off the year with a visit to the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social in Edinburgh to see the Turner watercolours only on view in January #JMWTurner

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Picture of the archaeological site of Aristotle’s Lyceum in Athens: slate grey skies over a hill in the distance, mostly grass in the foreground with remnants of ancient building walls Picture of a board describing the archaeological site of Aristotle’s Lyceum in Athens. The last paragraph reads “It is difficult to comprehend from the scant remains in this archaeological site that we are in one of the most important places in the history of the human mind. Here, the universal genius of Aristotle created an integrated system of organization of the cosmos, facing it in a more sober and analytical manner than Plato. The Aristotelian School studied and systematized Logic, Morality, Metaphysics and Physics. The last includes works on almost all today's "positive sciences. The monumental intellectual construct of Aristotle and his School summarized coherently all the philosophical and scientific inquiries of the ancient world, and had inestimable influence on the formation of Christian Patristic Theology. For eighteen centuries, until the Renaissance, Aristotle was the epitome of human wisdom and the undisputed authority on virtually every discipline.”

Concluding my Greek “research trip” (aka testing the local Xmas cuisine) at the Athenian Lyceum of Aristotle—“epitome of human wisdom”—birthplace of virtue ethics #philsky

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David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”

Here’s to 2026

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The call for abstracts for the 2026 Joint Session is now live! Please consider submitting to the Society for Women in Philosophy #SWIP session if your work furthers the aims of SWIP, broadly construed 1/2
sites.google.com/view/2026-jo...
#CfA #philsky #feminism #SWIP @aristotsoc.bsky.social

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Hallelujah!

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Who We Are SWIP UK is an organisation of UK women in philosophy, including students and professionals, working within or outside academic departments.

2/2 i.e. if your work is on "feminism and related emancipatory philosophies, women in the history of philosophy, and achieving gender justice and related forms of justice in the profession".
For more info on SWIP's aims, check here and/or get in touch:
www.swipuk.org/who-we-are.h...

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The call for abstracts for the 2026 Joint Session is now live! Please consider submitting to the Society for Women in Philosophy #SWIP session if your work furthers the aims of SWIP, broadly construed 1/2
sites.google.com/view/2026-jo...
#CfA #philsky #feminism #SWIP @aristotsoc.bsky.social

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Graphic for Philosophy in Review, Vol. 45 No. 4 (2025): November. On the left is the book cover for Science for a Fragile World by Robert Northcott, featuring a close-up image of bubbling mud pools. On the right, over a textured blue-green background, text reads: ‘Victoria Min-Yi Wang reviews Science for a Fragile World.’

@vmywang.bsky.social reviews Robert Northcott’s Science for a Fragile World, a book that asks how scientific practice should shift when the systems we study—and rely on—are under strain. Her piece appears in our November issue: buff.ly/hUCMcjS #PhilSky #PhilosophyOfScience

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Hannah Arendt (1964) - What Remains? (Full Interview w/ Günter Gaus) YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose

Fifty years to the day since the death of Hannah Arendt. This is (still) such a fantastic interview:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVSR...

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Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh): Apocalyptic Technology: AI and the Limits of Science YouTube video by LSE Philosophy

🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science"

Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...

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Robert Northcott, 'Science for a Fragile World'. | Philosophy in Review

Following some rewarding reading group meetings with @michelamassimi.bsky.social and others in the department, a review of Robert Northcott's new book 'Science for a Fragile World' has now come out in @philosophyinreview.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #science
journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...

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3 months ago

3/3 "level" of scientific inquiry does this choice take place? Is every experiment, every semi-structured interview a choice between these two approaches? Or does the choice happen at the level of whole research grants and programmes?

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3 months ago

2/3 case-worker is still the best way to find stability before switching to a stability-theorist approach. Not sure about the smoothness of this transition... this brings up a general worry one might have: how dichotomous is the choice between case-worker and stability-theorist really? And at what

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1/3 Good question. Northcott is mainly worried about the opposite problem: science loses something (esp. wasted resources) when scientists insist on stability-theorist when, in fact, lots of relations are fragile. According to Northcott, the idea is that in cases of mere epistemic unpredictability

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tl;dr I think Northcott makes a compelling case that scientists should more often proceed on the assumption that the causal/explanatory relations they're studying are "fragile" (i.e. unpredictable), and that this necessitates a "case-worker" approach to inquiry.

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