Tim Luft

Looking to connect Bluesky's legion of philosophy PhD students. I've gotten a start based on my followers, please let me know if I should add you!

(Apologies if I've missed a mutual here...)

I've been getting a bunch of new followers today. I suspect this must be why! Thanks for starting this!

The Myth of Objective Data When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.

The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social

Barad's book has a special place in my heart. It was recommended to me by my Anthropology of Sci. and Tech. prof my second year of undergrad. I was an STS major at the time with interests in phil sci and foundations of physics. Every page felt like a revelation. It might be time for a second read!

biography of the churchlands titled "my chemical romance"

Link: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

If you want to jump straight into the deep end... I think William Wimsatt's "Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings" might be just the thing you'd dig - esp. if you take "putting biology into philosophy" as acknowledging just how messy the world really is and how messy we are as knowers of it

As someone who's in grad school now, I'm curious: what is it that made Twitter so valuable to your professional life and development all that time? Was it mainly a networking tool? Useful for staying informed?

Would love to be on it if I qualify :)

Reading about affirmative action for my political theory seminar right now is… difficult, to say the least. Rigorous arguments about the philosophical merits of social policy feel irrelevant with the thick fog of election-based doom clouding things.

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

A fun, quick, Sunday morning philosophy of physics read

Is my blue your blue? Test your color perception with this interactive test.

#PhilSenses ismy.blue

Grid overlayed on the starry background of space. Some grid spots are highlighted and filled with elliptical galaxies. One spot has a yellow circle, which represents Dark Matter.

Minesweeper, but with Dark Matter.

Use weak gravitational lensing to track down otherwise invisible dark matter.

The Hunt for Dark Matter, by Shaun Hotchkiss. ⚛️
https://buff.ly/4d6mrvQ

Would it be crazy of me to think that we can give a syntactic account of the structure of scientific theories based on intuitionistic FOL rather than classical FOL?

It seems plausible to me since we can "embed" classical FOL in intuitionistic FOL via Godel-Gentzen double negation
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I like the idea of putting it all in appendices. This way the math doesn't crowd the main body while readers who are curious or need to get acquainted with it have the chance to.

Does anyone have advice for writing a philosophy (of science) paper that uses some mathematical tools as part of its argument? I'm having trouble being concise while explaining enough for the argument to be clear to someone unfamiliar with the math.

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Been lurking for a while -- I figure I should do something of an introduction.

Currently an MA Philosophy student writing a thesis in which I compare a couple of accounts of scientific theories.

Still learning the ropes around here, but like what I've seen so far.

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