Submissions (< 10,000 words) invited for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Topic Celebrating 300th anniversary of 3rd ed. Newton’s Principia.
www.duchateletprize.org
Winner will receive $1000, workshop & SHPS pub
Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD
Deadline September 1, 2026 #HPS
Referee of the Year 2025: Not all heroes wear capes (though ours are always masked)
www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/refer...
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Part of a great special issue on human science measurement edited by @erantal.bsky.social @alessandrabasso.bsky.social and @cristianlarph.bsky.social!
Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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My paper with @yichenluo.bsky.social has been accepted for publication at @thebjps.bsky.social! We argue that standard pictures of de-idealization are themselves idealized, and develop a practice-first account of de-idealization for validating idealized models. Preprint: philpapers.org/rec/LUODDB
Thank you!
Thanks, Thomas!
Thanks, Teru!!
Thank you *Michela* (apologize for my spellcheck - in my defense, I am frequently turned into a "Michael" myself...)
Thank you, Alisa! I am very honoured. Some big footsteps to fill...
Thank you, Michaela!
Final days to submit an abstract to #PBCS2026! If you are an early-career scholar looking for a supportive environment to discuss your work & meet international peers, consider applying! Another plus this year: The workshop will be in Madrid! sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... #HPbio #philsci #philsky
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Yes, of course, I do know Greg and always happy to talk earthquakes. My work (a bit of which is on intensity/hazard, again not landslides per se) has been mostly collaborative with @cristianlarph.bsky.social. The best resource for philosophy of seismology more broadly is @terumiyake.bsky.social.
There is some work more broadly on seismic hazard too by Luca Zanetti et. al. (IUSS Pavia) and Li-An Yu (National Taiwan Normal University). Both of them are also contributing to the handbook I mentioned.
Thanks Marabel! I saw Melvina Ongaro (Milan Polytechnic) give a nice talk on causal inference in landslide hazard research, and she is writing a piece about rationality and hazard for our forthcoming Philosophy of Geoscience handbook with Elsevier.
Good to know that there are more of us. Someone has to keep up the mood these days!
CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh
June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364...
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How long are you staying in Japan? Did you move there permanently?!
There's about a month left to submit something to the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference! Consider submitting an abstract, and encouraging early-career scholars (especially those from or based in Asia) to submit an essay for the APSA Essay Prize.
The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June.
Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.
Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...
Oh, I just taught that too, but my method truly pales in comparison to yours.
A fantastic kickoff tonight of the Boston Network for History & Philosophy of Physics, organized by @miguelohn.bsky.social & featuring talk by Peter Galison on his work with the Black Hole Initiative. #HPS ⚛️
New History & Philosophy of Physics network in Boston! Join us: open to locals and visitors. Check out the inaugural colloquium program & sign up to our mailing list and register for the inaugural lecture given by Peter Galison: www.bu.edu/cphs/boston-...
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Many thanks to @cristianlarph.bsky.social @erantal.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @annaalexandrova.bsky.social @federicabocchi.bsky.social for discussions at various stages and nice audiences at Cambridge, BU, UW Madison, UEA, Durham, and PSA for questions and comments :-)
Now out as preprint in Philosophy of Science. l argue that two central desiderata for measures often conflict: quantitativeness and responsiveness to stakeholder values, forcing a choice between them. The conflict poses a challenge for recent work on "legitimate" measurement. doi.org/10.1017/psa....
This week, Cristian Larroulet Philipi joins us to talk about measurement in the human sciences: why it can be more philosophically complex than in the physical sciences, and how it raises pressing questions about the role of numbers in psychology, social science, and policy
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Congratulations to both of you, and to @annaalexandrova.bsky.social too!
My student, Sebastian Rodriguez Duque, has just successfully defended his dissertation on the role of ethical and social values in measurement. Next stop: two-year postdoc at Cambridge U supervised by @annaalexandrova.bsky.social . Congratulations, Dr. Rodriguez Duque! #philsky #philsci
