@anitaleirfall.bsky.social
Associate Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Bergen. 🇳🇴 Various philosophical interests. Kant’s theoretical philosophy is my field of specialty. Other interests: arts, science, music, literature, photography, and travels.
COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Denis Diderot and science: Enlightenment to modernity
"Diderot’s status as either a predecessor of developments in the sciences, or a kind of “scientific theorist” is also strongly affected by his brilliant works of experimental philosophical prose." theconversation.com/denis-didero.... #Diderot
RIP Susan Haack Reflects on her Intellectual Life – An Interview with José Maihub x.com/jornadaepist...
Very sad news. I once met Susan Haack at a conference. A brilliant philosopher and a wonderful human being. RIP
In Memoriam: Susan Haack (1945-2026) x.com/brianleiter/...
Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France
via @InistCNRS@social.numerique.gouv.fr
edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan
phys.org/news/2026-03...
Archimedes at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #archeology #mathematics
The great, forgotten Wolff
Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolff’s mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher | by Michael Walschots
aeon.co/essays/why-w... #Wolff #method #Enlightenment #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky
too many people with no background in either philosophy or cognitive neuroscience have strongly-held beliefs about consciousness
Nice little break from transcribing letters: found these doodles of Faraday @rigb.org and Herschel in a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth (1802-1869) in 1844 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, writing about Faraday’s Xmas lectures on electricity - pretty solid likenesses to be honest!
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
The Man Who Stole Infinity
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. www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-... #Cantor #Dedekind #logic #infinity #philsky
It's a special occasion this week, as we start to look at Malebranche on #HoPWaG! Starting with his solution to the problem of evil.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/malebranche
#philsky #philosophy #podcast #malebranche
Your Deep Expertise Is Why Nobody Knows Your Name x.com/acagamic/sta... #science #philsky
"AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such"
Kati Farkas and I have a new paper, 'Lack of Attitude', in a superb new volume edited by @eschwitz.bsky.social and @msgjonhere.bsky.social The paper is open access and available to download here: academic.oup.com/book/62410/c...
Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!
This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲
Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.
From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400
📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn
#Archaeology
Touché!
What we really need is a change in the publication/credit system.
There are too many papers, fewer reviewers (with increasingly few remaining, biasing review), overworked editors, and journals holding up an artificial gatekeeper bottleneck and charging money for it. This is not about "quality".
«When the Pentagon branded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei “a liar with a god complex” over fears that his company’s AI could be used for weapons and surveillance, it exposed a deeper truth: the boundary between civilian and military technology no longer exists.» iai.tv/articles/ai-... #AI #surveillance
I knew, of course, that William Whewell first coined the word “scientist,” but I had no idea that the idea remained so controversial that Nature was still weighing in on the appropriateness of the term at least as late as 1925.
https://www.nature.com/articles/115253a0.pdf
#HistSTM #PhilSci #STS
The 2026 application round for the MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is now open. Please help us spread the word. www.philosophie.lmu.de/en/study/deg...
New on the Archive:
Szubart, Tomasz (2025) What are musical emotions? A proposal for a functional–teleosemantic approach. ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, 15 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 2084–1043
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27467/
We are organising a pre-conference workshop on Values in science in the rest of the world in Helsinki in August, just before ENPOSS 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract!
Video abstract for Melissa's and my new Element, Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project! #philsky #philsci #scicomm 🧪
In the new @eenphilsci.bsky.social blog I tell my origin story, my current projects, and some of my struggles. eenps.weebly.com/blog/daniel-...
Thank you @annaalexandrova.bsky.social and @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social for inviting me to share it.
#philsci
JOB OPPORTUNITY.
Apply to work for us as an Administrator/Web Editor. This is the perfect flexible job for a grad or PhD student. See the link below for more information! Pass along to your students.
Deadline: Friday 27th March
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Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci
thehangedman.com/philosophy/p...
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | March 2026. We talk about quantum gravity and the early universe, the Umwelt of a cat, junky AI-written papers, and whether public debates serve a useful purpose. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
An excellent source! #WiseWomen
What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years. No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He's still finding new ways to use it. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/synchr...