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The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

So turns out Cantor stole the proof that \\(\mathbb{R}\\) is uncountable from Dedekind https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

Tipper was incredible - not only was she a Research Assistant in the DFRL at @rigb.org in the early 1920s, but simultaneously worked at the Royal School of Mines AND assisted GI Taylor at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social

Great War 1914-1918. Images of light colored soldiers, red soldiers, and graves. Each figure represents 1 million soldiers. Graves are soldiers killed (allies 8 million, central powers 3 million), wounded (allies 4 million, central powers 2 million), returning home (allies 28 million, central powers 15 million).

Günther Sandner reviews Silke Körber's _Die Visualisierung von Wissen im “Jahrhundert des Auges”: Otto Neurath, Isotype und Adprint_ in the latest #HOPOS.

Image credit Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection, University of Reading.

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

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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”.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

See me talk about a thing. (I'm less critical than it might sound from the abstract.)

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...

Delighted to share the news that my wonderful #HPS colleague @miguelohn.bsky.social has been appointed the next Director of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, beginning July 1st. Congrats Miguel!
www.bu.edu/cphs/about/

Calling master students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows in the fields of philosophy, life sciences & medicine!

Apply now to come to Bordeaux in June and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods

#philsky #philsci #biology #neuroscience

Note: The images are of the abstracts for the papers. The text can be found at the links in the post.

Sander Verhaegh's "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective."

Part I: Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy (Spr 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Part II: Analytic versus Continental Philosophy (Fall 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

The full SHPS book forum on Inference and Representation is now out, with contributions by Chiara Ambrosio, Alexander Bird and Oscar Westerblad: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

I respond here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience

Punctuated equilibria in the 1970s: Stephen Jay Gould between biological improvement and irreducible hierarchy | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core Punctuated equilibria in the 1970s: Stephen Jay Gould between biological improvement and irreducible hierarchy

Congratulations to former MCPS postdoc Max Dresow for two recent publications. With Alan Love @thebjps.bsky.social - The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation. And in @universitypress.cambridge.org -

Home November 19 - 22, 2026

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

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New Special Issue of #HOPOS on Paul Feyerabend.

Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers.

Link to the special issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...

James Bogen (1935-2025) - Daily Nous James "Jim" Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Bogen ...

My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci
dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...

Support the Future of HOPOS Photo of the banquet from HOPOS 2016 in Minneapolis. Recently, I returned from the HOPOS 2024 conference in Vienna . It was a fantastic conference - most people I talked to said the biggest problem...

*HOPOS Capital Campaign*

Support the #HOPOS Society's upcoming projects including our conferences, mentoring programs, grants, and awards.

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The Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study."

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In the latest issue of #HOPOS Jacob McDowell notes the surprising fact that Thomas Kuhn endorses "aspects of the causal theory [of reference] in several later essays while maintaining the possibility of incommensurability".

Link to the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

• Bing Al Overview The "Vienna circle" likely refers to Vienna's historic Ringstrasse cafes, such as Café Schwarzenberg and Café Landtmann, which are located along the famous city boulevard. These are traditional Viennese coffee houses, known for their elegant atmosphere, history, and as important social and intellectual hubs.

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Support the Future of HOPOS Photo of the banquet from HOPOS 2016 in Minneapolis. Recently, I returned from the HOPOS 2024 conference in Vienna . It was a fantastic conference - most people I talked to said the biggest problem...

*HOPOS Capital Campaign*

Support the #HOPOS Society's upcoming projects including our conferences, mentoring programs, grants, and awards.

Article: lydiapatton.weebly.com/the-circle/s...

Link to donate: subfill.uchicago.edu/JournalPubs/...

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In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism."

Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

How Science is Changing | Panel Discussion | Philosophy of Science Association/PEWS Event An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion. Join scholars from institutions across North America as they discuss the ways in which science is changing in their fi...

“How science is changing”
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
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Aram d’Abro was an influential science populariser who wrote The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein and The Rise of the New Physics (prevl The Decline of Mechanism …). Does anyone on here know of any papers, books, whatever that discuss him or his work?

New on the Archive:

Norton, John D. (2024) The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27217/

As a consequence L believed that, like classical physics, geological dynamics are ergodic. In exploring a Newtonian state space, the earth system will return to a state in which iguanadons, ichthyosaurs, and pterodactyls roam the earth

Henry De la Beche mocked him here

🗃️🧠🧪 ⚒️ 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci 🐡

New on the Archive:

Seifert, Vanessa A. (2025) The many laws in the periodic table. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27237/

HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov)

Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…

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Manuel Fasko writes in the latest #HOPOS about ""Mary Shepherd’s Influence on Mary Somerville on Induction."

Link here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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In the latest #HOPOS, Ties van Gemert analyzes a 1968 lecture by the French historian and philosopher of science Suzanne Bachelard (1919–2007), titled “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.

Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...