Anya Plutynski

News from Association for Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry! My student Derek Braverman received the 2026 Karl Jaspers Award for his paper on Addiction! Congratulations Derek!

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as a parent I cannot imagine how absolutely fucking heartbreaking and awful it must be to have to put out a statement like this because the federal government killed your son and is telling monstrous lies about him

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Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.

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The meaning of a measure: p as a general measure of psychopathology The variable “p” is characterized as a single dimension of risk for psychopathology. The aim of this paper is to critically assess debates over “p” in the scientific literature, and their larger ph...

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“The Meaning of a Measure: p as a General Measure of Psychopathology”

Our referees have now considered your paper and have recommended publication in Philosophical Psychology. :)

Home November 19 - 22, 2026

About a month to go to submit a symposium to PSA26! Deadline 15 Jan 2026.

Career Opportunities | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Careers

Postdoc: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) is offering 3-year postdoc for a Historian of Life Sciences at its Center for Humanities & the History of Modern Biology.
#HPS #PhilJobs 🗃️

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AI and the Nature of Science Bringing together cutting-edge perspectives and helping set an agenda for future research and application

Excited to welcome @lmesseri.bsky.social, @cameronbuckner.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com to campus a week from today for the “AI and the Nature of Science: Concepts and Controversies” event. 14.11.25, 1400 - 1800.

Join us for "How Science is Changing," a free interdisciplinary panel discussion! Scholars from across North America discuss the evolving nature of science.

🗓️ Nov 20th, 6 PM
📍 @cincymuseum.bsky.social w/ @philsci.bsky.social

Free, open to all, parking included! RSVP:
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Check out the program in the thread! 🥳

I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social)

To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

Applying multilevel selection to understand cancer evolution and progression Cancer is a prime example of multilevel selection. At an organismal level, natural selection has led to the evolution of diverse tumor suppression mechanisms, while at a cellular level, it favors trai...

New paper. Thank you Lucie Laplane and co-authors for inviting me to contribute to this paper. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment at Texas State University 🗃️ #HPS
#histsci #histmed #envhist

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Lecturer in Philosophy: Academic Year 2025-26 (Anticipated) University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

Do you know someone with a PhD in Philosophy who would like to teach in the Central Valley of California this year? We have teaching needs in ethics; "a reasonable estimate for an initial appointment is $70,977". Please share with anyone you think may be interested!

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Oooo Charles Pence & Daniel Swaim are putting together a special issue on the philosophy of the historical sciences (and you can publish in French!).

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Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100 This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.

New publication: “Trade-offs and Progress in Cancer Science”, open access here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Thank you to Adrian Currie for the feedback, and to Frigg and Worrall for their invitation to contribute. (This was the Lakatos lecture.)

Are you a philosopher of mind? Would you like to work at the U of Vienna? Well then, here is a job for you. #philosophy #psychology #cognitivescience

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USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

Sending love and peace.

Audience Faves: Hasok Chang on 'Epistemic Iteration' The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

Great interview with Hasok Chang on 'Epistemic Iteration':

The idea that we don't often start scientific inquiries from a solid foundation. We knowingly start from an imperfect position, and use the outcomes to refine and correct the original starting point.

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“Only the callow and obdurately scientific believe that data speak for themselves; they should be sentenced for their heresy to six months in a research laboratory or six weeks in a courtroom.” (Smith, et. al. (1980) The Benefits of Psychotherapy, p. 181)

Thank you!

Just a stray! :)

Cousin gray cat Walter sends his greetings

I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end

Philosophy at Guelph is hiring in Ethics/ Applied Ethics.

Please share widely.

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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

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Call for IUHPST Essay Prize in History & Philosophy of Science
Submission deadline: 15 January 2025
This biennial prize competition seeks to encourage fresh methodological thinking on the history and philosophy of science and related areas. Prize of $1,000 US #HPS
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