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Professor UCMadrid, educated Edinburgh & LSE, now often @Cambridge. Author of Inference and Representation (Chicago 24): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo207912978.html More about me: https://sites.google.com/ucm.es/mauriciosuarez

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#1215 Mauricio Suárez - Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science
YouTube video by The Dissenter #1215 Mauricio Suárez - Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science

New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo
Podcast: bit.ly/4rKRRQb

13.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!

14.02.2026 07:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I don't, although on my deflationist view there turns out to be no difference in kind between mathematical and scientific representation...

I do discuss mathematical models in science though...

01.02.2026 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Nothing represents unless it has the capacity to license some surrogative inferences ... however minimal, inappropriate, misleading, or incorrect these inferences might be’ (Mauricio Suárez, 2024, p. 157)

30.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Excellent review of Inference & Representation by @guicogsci.bsky.social in Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Welcome to Bluesky, Gui!

#philsci #hps #philsky #sts #philtech #metascience

30.01.2026 16:31 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It was an honor and a privilege to study under, and work with, Bas at San Francisco State. In particular, his advanced logic course brings back so many wonderful and impactful memories. I can't think of a more deserving philosopher for such a prize! #philsci #philosophy

21.01.2026 18:35 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bas van Fraassen Wins Schock Prize - Daily Nous Bastiaan "Bas" van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prizes are bestowed by the Royal ...

Bas van Fraassen has won the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

21.01.2026 15:49 — 👍 57    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 2
Von der Leyen Hails 25-Year Mercosur-EU Trade Breakthrough in Paraguay | DRM News | AC1F
YouTube video by DRM News Von der Leyen Hails 25-Year Mercosur-EU Trade Breakthrough in Paraguay | DRM News | AC1F

Truly historic, for Latin America, Europe, and the world: youtu.be/9XRaHzTEOXs?...

17.01.2026 22:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Deadline approaching!👇

#philsci

16.01.2026 18:50 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Client Challenge

New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky

14.01.2026 19:27 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Wonderful. Congratulations. Is it coming out in the special issue in honour of Paul (Humphreys)?

14.01.2026 20:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Teaching Associates / Administrative Assistant in existential risk (predoc/postdoc - up to 3 Teaching Associates / Administrative Assistant in existential risk (predoc/postdoc - up to 3

Some excellent jobs in a new teaching program in #xrisk in Germany – please share. Link to the page for the course below.

jobs.fernuni-hagen.de/job/Teaching...

09.01.2026 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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aboutlogic aboutlogic features bi-weekly conversations on all topics around logic: From foundations of computer science, set theory, critical thinking, riddles to the questions how it is to be an academic resear...

new bi-weekly podcast where logic, mathematics, philosophy, and computer science meet #philsky

12.01.2026 22:06 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent abstract

09.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

2025 has been a difficult year, which I will be happy to leave behind. Yet, it has turned into my most prolific year in terms of publications. The below 7 papers / book chapters are amongst my best ever. Some were researched and written in previous years, obviously. Still, remarkable productivity.

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Ditto Martín!

31.12.2025 20:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience

31.12.2025 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inference and Representation by Mauricio Suárez: Reply by the Author.

(2025g) "Inference and Representation: Reply by the author", Book Forum on Inference and Representation: A Study in Modelling Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 114, December 2025:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

31.12.2025 12:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience

31.12.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics | 7 | A Study in Pragmatism | The nature and representational uses of Feynman diagrams have been much debated in contemporary philosophy of science. The discussion has consequences for the

(2025f) "Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics: A Study in Pragmatism" (with Carmen Sánchez-Ovcharov), Chapter 5 in R. Gronda, Jannack, M. and Marchetti, G. Eds., Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice Mary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy...

(2025e) "Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons from Clinical Medical Practice" (with Helene Scott-Fordsmand), Chapter 12 in Pietro Gori, Ed. (forth), Mary B. Hesse (1924 - 2016): Metaphors, Models, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 215-233: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Logic of Quantum Theory Revisited | Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica

(2025d) "The Logic of Quantum Theory Revisited", Analysis: Journal of Philosophical Research 12 (1), 47-92.12 (1), 47-92:
papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.ph...

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Probabilistic empiricism - European Journal for Philosophy of Science Modal Empiricism in philosophy of science proposes to understand the possibility of modal knowledge from experience by replacing talk of possible worlds with talk of possible situations, which are coa...

(2025c), "Probabilistic Empiricism" (with Quentin Ruyant), European Journal for Philosophy of Science (EJPS), 15 (23): doi.org/10.1007/s131...
Preprint available at Phil Sci archive (Pittsburgh, March 2025): philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24924/

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Possibilities in Propensities | 6 | Emergence and Modality | Mauri The complex nexus of chance (CNC) is a pluralistic account of the application of objective chance to statistical modelling practice. It refrains from reducing

(2025b) "The Possibilities in Propensities: Emergence and Modality", Chapter 4 in Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Rami Koskinen, and Ylwa Sjolin-Wirling, Eds., Modeling the Possible: Perspectives from Philosophy of Science, Routledge: London, pp. 82-99:
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Plurality and identity: on the educational relations between chemistry and physics We present an approach to the question of the educational relations between chemistry and physics based on the one hand, on an inferentialist account of scientific representation (Suárez M., (2024), I...

(2025a) "Plurality and Identity: On the Educational Relations Between Chemistry and Physics" (with Pedro Sánchez-Gómez), Chemistry Education Research and Practice (Chem. Educ. Res. Pract.), vol. 26, pp. 53-64: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

2025 has been a difficult year, which I will be happy to leave behind. Yet, it has turned into my most prolific year in terms of publications. The below 7 papers / book chapters are amongst my best ever. Some were researched and written in previous years, obviously. Still, remarkable productivity.

31.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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On this weekend's FT cover.

Appealing to the wide readership of upwardly mobile continental philosophers?

28.12.2025 14:14 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Gorgeous stuff. Merry Christmas, Martin!

25.12.2025 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Of course! DM or email me and I can send you all papers back... Happy Christmas Eve!

24.12.2025 12:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Philosophers of science have much to learn from the history and philosophy of art and artistic representation."

22.12.2025 22:28 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

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