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Adorable and stylish! Lucky you. My family only has a couple (in between soujourns in Gulag) but I cherish them.

amazing, Owen! Stay strong and keep going

Laws of Nature and Chances: What Breathes Fire into the Equations This book’s subtitle is based on a question the physicist Stephen Hawking once asked: “What breathes fire into the equations…?”...

Craig Callender, the unreformable Humean, reviews Loewer’s book with lots of cooking and home improvement metaphors. Both delightful and informative #philsci #philsky

Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...

Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci

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Oh Matt, reading this was unexpectedly moving. I actually remember this material in his grad seminar on learning (2001?!). Thank you for writing this! You are absolutely right on the value of Paul’s conceptual resources today.

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At my college. An old fellow passed away and left his collection of ancient leatherbound volumes, lots of Hume. I stood over them for a while inhaling the smell...

Lucky you! I can’t think of a better way to spend time than this

First page of an early edition of Hume’s Inquiry

SECTION VII. Of the IDEA of NECESSARY CONNECTION. PART I. THE reat a morage of the mathematical fcience above the moral confifts in this, that the ideas of the former, being fenfible, are always clear and determinate, the fmalleft diftinction between them is immediately perceptible, and the lame terms are Itill exprellive of the tame ideas, without ambiguity or variation. An oval is never miftaken for a circle, nor an hyperbola for an ellipfis. The ifofceles and İcalenum are diftinguifhed by boundaries more exact than vice and virtue, right and wrong. If any term be defined in geometry, the mind readily, of itfelf, fubititutes, on all occafions, the definition for the term defined: Or even when no definition is em-ployed, the object itfelf may be prefented to the fenfes, and by that means be fteadily and clearly ap-prehended. But the finer fentiments of the mind, the operations of the underftanding, the various agitations of the paffions, though really in themfelves diftinct, eafily efcape us, when furveyed by reflec-tion; nor is it in our power to recal the origina object, as often as we have occafion to contemplat it. Ambiguity, by this means, is gradually intro duced into our reafonings: Similar objects are readil taken to be the fame: And the conclufion becom

Came across some holy texts today

Borut Trpin What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, with affiliation also at the University of Maribor. My path...

I recently added an entry on the @eenphilsci.bsky.social blog: a bit of my story from early international experiences to my current work on coherence and reasoning, and what it’s like building philosophy of science here in Central & Eastern Europe.
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Ways of World Knowing: Local Knowledge, Coastal Communities, and Equitable Ocean Governance Abstract. This collection of cross-disciplinary chapters by philosophers, legal scholars, and marine scientists explore the epistemic value of varieties of

Our co-edited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars is out: academic.oup.com/book/62270#l... (hardback to follow). Our ch 2 is OA academic.oup.com/book/62270/c.... We discuss how to better integrate local knowledge into ocean governance esp #BBNJ implementation.

Important and interesting indeed! You go @vmywang.bsky.social

Next week! Conference: To Be or Not To Be Included in a Causal Model

Register on our website: https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/to-be-or-not-to-be-included-in-a-causal-model/ #philsci #philosophyconference #philosophyofscience

We conceived this series to put into words the experience of #philsci researchers from Eastern n Central Europe. There are 2 entries from @boruttrpin.bsky.social and @danielkostic.bsky.social Thanks to both! These are stories of success and resilience, but read about the darker sides too and learn.

Mental health has several disciplinary homes. Yet members from different homes seldom meet. With Johanna, we decided to make these meetings more frequent at Cambridge with the Bridging Mental Health Network. Room has been brimming at our two talks

Network talk recordings: tinyurl.com/5b4bwd5d

Thanks to @adigitaltanay.bsky.social and Johanna Silva-Stueger for organising this important network. Check out their other videos and subscribe to their channel

YouTube video by The Bridging Mental Health Network Why Mental Health is Hard to Measure | Anna Alexandrova & Sebastian Rodriguez Duque

Sebastian Rodriguez and I gave an inaugural talk for a new interdisciplinary network on mental health research in Cambridge. #philsci #philmed #philsky #mentalhealth

A useful thought, Brian. There is a tradeoff b/w building a support system for publishing (what Kareem is trying to do) and pushing boundaries in journals. But ultimately such a list is like answering a q from a grad student 'where should I send this paper?'. 'Anywhere' is rarely a helpful reply.

Definitely. And the JEM

Journals This is our best attempt at a comprehensive guide for journals that publish in philosophy of social science. If we have either misrepresented or omitted a journal and you are on the editorial board…

Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

A reminder that I do freelance work: transcription, archival visits and more. My rates are here (subject to surcharges or discounts):

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solidarity, Mark

The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/

Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2026

Welcome to our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, February 23rd, where Robert Northcott (Birkbeck, University of London) will give a talk titled “Cherry-picking – in history and beyond”. Abstract of the talk, and more here: tint-helsinki.fi/2026/02/18/2...

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A program for the Royal Opera performance of Boris Godunov in the foreground and the stalls of the ROH in the background

In place and very excited. Two and a half hours with no interval. Bring it on Boris

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 ☀️
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European Journal for Philosophy of Science The European Journal of Philosophy of Science publishes groundbreaking works that can deepen understanding of the concepts and methods of the sciences, as ...

Meet the new editors-in-chief of *EJPS*:

Catherine Herfeld & Samuel C. Fletcher

Here you can find more information about the associate editors and the editorial board of our journal:

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Looking forward to studying this. Not the central point of the article but I am startled by the first sentence "The purpose of scientific research is to generate generalizable knowledge". If this is true, science should not study the Big Bang, the extinction of dinosaurs, and other one off events.

Wow this hits the spot. Thank you

Thank you for deciphering this, Hetan. I am staring at the list of eight sector plans, wondering how my field could possibly fit in them. Would be great for BA to help us all to interpret them.