Understanding scientific explanations
Understanding scientific explanations | As a Ph.D. candidate in the top-ranked @ucirvine.bsky.social Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Jaehyun Lee investigates the very nature of scientific inquiry
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social
05.11.2025 18:33 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Relational Cognition Lab
I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
05.11.2025 08:09 — 👍 31 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0
Looking forward to this!
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
@tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social
29.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Amazing talk by Sally Haslanger @shaslang.bsky.social on "Social systems & their micro, meso, & macro interactions'' @ucisocsci.bsky.social & dinner afterwards with Ari Koslow, Tori Cotton @wittgencism.bsky.social, Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social & Kate Ritchie @kateritch.bsky.social !!!
28.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution
Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other | Lauren Ross & Megan Peters
Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
25.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 107 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 2
Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
25.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 63 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 0
So bad even political science (and philosophy) professors are showing up. With @daniellethomsen.bsky.social 🇺🇸
Here for democracy, science and #noKings #philsky #philsci #STS #sciencesky #HPBio
20.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford University is recruiting PhD students this cycle!
We are a supportive team who happened to wear bluesky appropriate colors for the lab photo (this wasn't planned). 💙
Lab info: cicl.stanford.edu
Application details: psychology.stanford.edu/admissions/p...
17.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 43 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Congratulations, Megan! So excited and happy for you! Will seriously miss you at UCI but looking forward to staying in touch and all your exciting next steps! 🎉🎉🎉
13.10.2025 20:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
13.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 386 🔁 47 💬 53 📌 2
Thanks for the wonderful talk, Tobi! Great having you out!
03.10.2025 04:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
26.09.2025 13:07 — 👍 104 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 6
Check out our chapter (led by @beakr.bsky.social) on cognitive ontology here! : philpapers.org/archive/KRIC...
We propose a developmental approach to 'cognitive homologies' –– (cognitive capacities that are "the same across species") –– as a means for carving up cognition.
Our approach adopts...
20.09.2025 00:07 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
Another great summer development program at UCI LPS @ucisocsci.bsky.social
#philsci #philsky #HPS
16.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work
15.09.2025 11:50 — 👍 60 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1
S5 E8 - Philip Kitcher on Philosophy for Science and the Common Good
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 11/09/2025 · 48m
I had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week.
We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.
12.09.2025 15:17 — 👍 90 🔁 27 💬 7 📌 1
Relinquishing experimental control to improve translation - Synthese
Here I draw on a recent movement in preclinical biomedical research – use of what are often called “dirty mice” – to challenge the standard view that less controlled experiments have diminished episte...
Great paper by Jacqueline Wallis @jwallis1.bsky.social on dirty mice! 🐁🐀 #philsci #philsky #HPS
"Here I draw on a recent movement...use of what are often called “dirty mice” – to challenge the standard view that less controlled experiments have diminished epistemic power."
10.09.2025 21:59 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Join us in San Diego this November for #MCCS25, including 16 X research talks and the MCCS debate.
Invited faculty speakers are announced below. Half of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.
Registration is open:
20.08.2025 05:25 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Enjoyed giving a keynote at CogSci 2025! 🧠 🖥️ 🌉@cogscisociety.bsky.social #CogSci2025 #philsci #philsky #HPS
16.08.2025 15:53 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | Nicole Rust
Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust
“The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro
12.08.2025 20:00 — 👍 68 🔁 18 💬 9 📌 4
Congratulations to Jessica Lauman-Lairson for defending her excellent dissertation on "A Middle-Range Account of Analogical Inference" 🎉
Jeff Barrett and I co-advised, w Kyle Stanford on her committee! @ucisocsci.bsky.social
Check out her new Synthese pub here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
07.08.2025 14:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Salih Can Özdemir, who completed his master’s degree in our lab and is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected as a Graduate Student Representative on the Cognitive Science Society Board! @cogscisociety.bsky.social
04.08.2025 18:50 — 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Brilliant keynote by @laurennross.bsky.social at #cogsci2025 on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! 🙏
02.08.2025 23:21 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Sketchnote of Nora Newcombe's Rumelhart Prize Talk, posing three questions and case studies for cognitive science: (1) innateness (with the geometric module as a case study), (2) representations (featuring cognitive maps vs. graphs), and (3) embodiment (featuring mental rotation)
Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025
01.08.2025 00:16 — 👍 139 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 0
Congratulations to Dr. Ben Santos Genta for a terrific dissertation defense! 🎉 Ben has a Sloan Foundation Postdoc grant for work on Metascience & AI at NYU's Philosophy Department.
Shown celebrating with his proud co-advisors! 😊 @cailinmeister.bsky.social
Check out his work: benjamingenta.com
12.07.2025 02:31 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We kick off #EmbracingComplexity with the inimitable @laurennross.bsky.social explaining two key aspects of emergence that cause philosophical and scientific challenges. Challenges we hope to tackle!
@ifisc.uib-csic.es @rherzoga.bsky.social
23.06.2025 07:54 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
a dumpy budgie // party mom // do not ask me about the Orb
I'm a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University, of which I am currently director. My research centers around the notion of scientific understanding. @isis-radboud.bsky.social
The DEI Caucus aims to support networking among and raise the visibility of traditionally marginalized groups in the Philosophy of Science Association.
Reverse engineering the brain
I'm a philosopher, psychologist and neuroscientist studying vision, mental imagery, consciousness and introspection. As S.S. Stevens said "there are numerous pitfalls in this business." https://www.subjectivitylab.org
Philosopher and historian of science at Simon Fraser University, working on explanation, causation, pragmatism, time. Very geeky about science fiction/fantasy. Also photography. she/they
Philosopher of science/neuroscience/cog science. DFG Postdoc at LMU Munich, MCMP. I make pizza. He/Him
https://sites.google.com/site/colacodavidj/
Information about the Cambridge Philosophy of Science seminar series (CamPoS) at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Maintained where possible by @mattfarr.bsky.social
Philosophy professor at UC Irvine working on (social) kinds and groups and our linguistic and mental representations of them
multiscale network neuroscience | neuro-oncology | cognition | associate professor @ Amsterdam UMC
www.multinetlab.com
• Postdoc, Dept of Neurosurgery, UTHealth
• Compositionality in neural and artificial systems
Website: https://elliot-murphy.com/
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • #PhilSci #HistSTM #philsky • Escribo y edito
Behavioral Neuroscientist, Prof, ICAN co-Director, Ivan Pavlov fan.
Interested in rats, drugs, motivation circuits, orexin, VP, DREADDs, psychedelics, neurodevelopment, etc
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/mahlerlab/
http://www.youtube.com/@stephenvmahler56
PhD researcher in the Philosophy & Ethics Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), working at the interface of Philosophy, Comparative Cognition, and AI.
🌐: www.dmoralesp.com
Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science
An archive for preprints in philosophy of science. This is an automated feed of new uploads. More info & contact: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
ψ/AI PhD Student @ Université de Montréal || Hacker || Metacognizer || Exploring qualia space computationally
shwnmnl.github.io
Philosopher of cognitive science at Virginia Tech. Fascinated by cosmology, evolution, archeology, anthropology, classical music, jazz, and the physical limits of puppets.
Biographer & philosopher, not necessarily in that order. ✍️ LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAN LIFE. Bylines in WaPo, WSJ, BoGlobe. OUP Handbook of 19C women philosophers is out! Current project: women pacifists philosophizing in the early 20th century.
Postdoc at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Research in History and Philosophy of Biology.
