Maarten Van Dyck

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Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.

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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution Cambridge Core - History of Science and Technology - The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

Laura Georgescu reviews David Marshall Miller and Dana Jalobeanu's The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution in #HOPOS.

Review: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Book website: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

How the Mind-World Problem Shaped the History of Science: A Historiographical Analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Part I This manuscript, divided into two parts, provides a contextual and historiographical analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's classic The Metaphysical Foundat…

An interesting contextualization of Burtt's work (in two parts) was published a few years ago, offering a more detailed analysis of how it fits in early 20th C American philosophical landscape, putting it in slightly different light: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I always like this older piece by Lorraine Daston on what she called the "elegiac mood" of another (somewhat related) classic from the same period (E.A. Burtt) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University is proud to present a lecture series on the topic of eugenics. As philosophers and ethicists, we are concerned about the revival and normalization of eugenic discourse.

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Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky

Feel free to reach out to me with questions!

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Maarten Van Dyck, Defending constructive empiricism - PhilPapers Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this positi...

You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers!
#philsci #hps

If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...

Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy

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New on the Archive:

Van Dyck, Maarten (2026) Defending constructive empiricism. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27313/

Thanks Mauricio!

Maarten Van Dyck, Defending constructive empiricism - PhilPapers Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this positi...

You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers!
#philsci #hps

Een aantal jaren geleden schreef ik een artikel over de zogenaamde "science wars" in de jaren '90, wat er daarin misliep en hoe daar de kiemen werden gelegd voor de retoriek dat universiteiten overgenomen waren door "postmodernisme" 1/

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Racistische pseudowetenschap hoort niet thuis aan de universiteit Vakgroepleden distantiëren zich van haar associatie met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.

Samen met enkele collega's schreef ik een stuk in Apache waarin we ons distantiëren van de associate van onze vakgroep met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
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*Euh, ik bedoel: Koop dit! Vanaf september in uw boekhandel 🥳

An inspiring paper on how to write history of philosophy

Looking forward to that! And I think it is absolutely correct to frame this in terms of commitments in the first place, rather than ideas or assumptions…

I’m not sure whether I’d consider myself a historian of mathematics, but in this piece I tried to show the importance of what we can learn from Bennett’s analyses (as well as those of a certain Johnston) to a philosophical audience philpapers.org/archive/VANA...

His encouragement over the years meant the world to me. One of the true greats in our field.

“Clean”, “clear” - whatever.

Thanks for pointing this out! So, to be clean: @mvandyck is the only real one… What a madness.

@mvandyck is the real me, whatever that still means in this “social” media madness…

American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of American philosophy? Why was the U.S. community more receptive to logical empiricism th...

Now out and open access! volume 1 of the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series History of Philosophy and Science: American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration edited by @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social and featuring a wider variety of papers than you might expect! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The Department of Philosophy and Moral Science at Ghent University is hiring a TT assistant professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy. Deadline for applications: 20 January.
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The Department of Philosophy and Moral Science at Ghent University is hiring a TT assistant professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy. Deadline for applications: 20 January.
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Thanks Craig! Jardine's Scenes of Inquiry is a neat proposal to focus on how to delineate what are relevant questions in a certain context of inquiry.

Thanks - that was one of the reasons to write the paper! It feels like it is a somewhat underappreciated framework...

Good reasons, real questions and proper aims: Hasok Chang on the rationality of the chemical revolution In this article, we provide a detailed discussion of Hasok Chang’s analysis of the Chemical Revolution. Our focus lies on his use of the framework of systems of practice and his claim that the aban...

New paper with Pieter Beck that just came out, in which we engage with Hasok Chang's interpretation of the chemical revolution. A limited number of free copies available in the link.

#hps #histsci #philsci

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – I'm teaming up with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt to edit a special issue of Minerva on the history of peer review in the humanities (and its connection to the sciences). Submit your abstracts by March 15, 2024, and help us spread the word!

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Aarsleff's excellent piece in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography references "Frank E. Manuel, A Portrait of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), pp. 11,49" for the claim that Newton took extensive notes from the Mathematical Magick around 1660.