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Looking forward to reading many insightful contributions in the volume.

Medical Cosmopolitanism AbstractMedical cosmopolitanism has been introduced partly as a response to the shortcomings of evidence-based medicine. This chapter describes the main te

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine is out. My contributed chapter is on medical cosmopolitanism as a way of moving past the shortcomings of evidence-based medicine and defend it against charges of relativism and insufficiently specifying evidence standards academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Very pleased to have this piece out with the fab @notesfrompoland.bsky.social, on the remarkable rise of participatory budgeting in contemporary Poland.

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September

opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

History and motivations How It All Started In the spring of 2015, the Steering Committee (SC) of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced for the first time 13 fellowships for junior scholars from...

Another post by Richard David-Rus in the series on the beginnings of EENPS and doing philosophy of science in Central and Eastern Europe. @eenphilsci.bsky.social eenps.weebly.com/history-and-...

And off to ESPP in Warsaw today. I will be presenting on Wednesday exploring questions of culture, context and pluralism in psychiatry I have been working on but this time in connection to psychotherapy and the role of lay health workers. espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/programme

Off to EPSA tomorrow. Looking forward to the talks and to presenting on Friday. I will be exploring a mechanistic ontology (particularly activities) for the purposes of specifying causal links between psychological or social variables and health outcomes. philsci.eu/EPSA25/Progr...

feminist philosophy of climate change Fall 2025 ONLINE SEMINAR pre-read and interactive discussion SEPTEMBER 17th LAURA GARCÍA-PORTELA 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Rectifying Climate Injustice OCTOBER Ist KRISTEN INTEMANN 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Equitable Research in Greenland OCTOBER 15th NANCY TUANA 16.00 - 17.30 CEST The Interlocking Domains of Racism and Ecological Indifference OCTOBER 29th KRISTINA ROLIN & INKERI KOSKINEN 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Structural Epistemic (In)justice in Global Contexts NOVEMBER 12th ANNA LEUSCHNER & MANUELA FERNÁNDEZ PINTO 16.00 - 17.30 CEST Epistemic Intimidation and Illegitimate Value-Influence in Science to register please contact sapna.kumar@unibe.ch

Online Seminar Series on Feminist Philosophy of Climate Change, organized by @juliejebeile.bsky.social & others ⤵️
femphiloclimate.ch/events/
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Planning ahead for summer 2026? Don’t miss the EPIC Summer School in Bertinoro (Italy)! Details and a link to apply here: epistemicinjusticein... #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #MedHum

I will ask, if it isn't I can send you the slides/paper.

Sure, I also have the paper written if it's of interest.

Workshop: Feminist Philosophy of Science - Program Program

Looking forward to attending this workshop tomorrow. Will be presenting on the question of objectivity and variable choice in causal models, bringing forward a notion of objectivity drawing on pragmatism and feminist philosophy of science sites.google.com/view/feminis...

And the latest update.

Thanks to @elenapopaphi.bsky.social and @saulperez for giving another inspiring talk at the @epsaphilsci.bsky.social junior scholar series about opportunities for post-doc careers!🎓

Save the dates of 18-19th of September 2026 for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference at the University of Bucharest!!!

Please expect a call for abstracts in autumn 2025 with submissions due likely in winter 2026!

eenps.weebly.com/eenps-2026.h...

Epistemic Trust Injustice and Distrust in Public Health: Amelioration Strategies

New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a post from @elenapopaphi.bsky.social about her talk as part of the “Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare” pre-conference in Lisbon. Check it out!

epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/07/epis...

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Stay tuned for more accounts on doing philosophy in Eastern Europe and on the activities of the network.

The East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS) is pleased to announce the relaunch of its Mentorship Scheme for Early Career Scholars! 🥳🔥

More info👇
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Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind

Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores

Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026

Details and links to submit on the website:

Hope to see you there!

10th STS Italia Conference – Technoscience for Good is about to start - STS Italia 📍 The conference will take place from June 11th to June 13th at the Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, our hosting institution.🕣 Registration opens

Looking forward to attending my first STS conference here and to giving a commentary in one of the panels: stsitalia.org/news/10th-st...

It was such a great conference, thank you, @mapsproject.bsky.social team!

It just started!! Thanks for the Welcoming Remarks to Philippe van Basshuysen and @elenapopaphi.bsky.social talk on "Performativity and Population Health Science" #MAPS2025

Looking forward to presenting here tomorrow. I will explore performativity in the context of population health, focusing on how individual vs population-based framing are suited for the purpose of improving overall health.

Very glad to hear that. We're still working on the paper, would be happy to send you a copy later on if it's of interest.

International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable & Peter Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Anniversary lecture — Philosophy & Medicine The International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable (IPMR) is an open group of philosophers, clinicians, epidemiologists, social scientists, statisticians, bioethicists, and anyone else with an inte...

Will be presenting co-authored work with Jay Zameska at this year's International Roundtable for Philosophy of Medicine. We try to link work on causality, social determinants of health, and public health ethics with particular attention to distributive and relational justice requirements:

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⏳Deadline approaching! Know any early-career scholars working on philosophy of econ or values in science? Please consider forwarding them our call for proposals at phil-econ-model-lab.org. We are assembling a group of young scholars to collaborate at the cutting-edge of these topics #philsi #econ

Briefly put, while I think transparency about the purposes and the different social aspects involved in the system is necessary, I argue that opacity can be both a challenge (to understanding what the avatar is doing) and a useful feature for avoiding harm owing to its resemblance to humans

Artificial agency and responsibility: the rise of LLM-powered avatars – avataResponsibility

Looking forward to attending this workshop later this week. I will be presenting work looking at the interplay between transparency and opacity in the context of avatars and AI systems: avataresponsibility.ccea.ro/2025-edition/

@kaameshsingam.bsky.social May be of interest