Amidst all the craziness, some news worthy of celebration:
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The Nagel-Hempel correspondence has just been published in the Vienna Circle Institute Library. Check it out!
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The new 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."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky
So, if I understand this whole 4E thing, the mind is not a computer, unless you own a computer, in which case it is?
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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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
no i don’t want to “manage cookies” r u insane
My good colleague and friend Jip van Besouw (not on Bluesky) and I wrote a paper on 18th century fountains used for research and teaching in physics. It was fun stuff to colaborate on, including arguing for the use of the concept "pissing machine". /1
I decided to make an introductory episode, to provide some orientation for the later episodes. In it, I introduce DAGs and explain how causation is a strategy for managing complexity.
I spent a lot of time improving the sound quality, so I hope that paid off.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h6t...
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
The history of medicine, in a nutshell...
Already read empiricism semantics and ontology so I won't be buying this.
HOPOS welcomes four new Associate Editors joining Editor Matthew J. Brown's team in 2025: Andreas Vrahimis, Sander Verhaegh, Bennett McNulty, and Emma Gannage. They join current AEs Sophie Roux, Francesca Biagioli, and Teru Miyake.
Welcome to our new Associate Editors!
The USA is about to rediscover that Louis Pasteur is at least as important a scientist as Albert Einstein.
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.
Submit a manuscript proposal for the series History of Philosophy and Science at De Gruyter Press.
blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...
#HPS #histsci
"Real Possibilities" - what Husserl means by those and what he should have said instead*. Forthcoming in ergo, preprint now here:
philpapers.org/rec/BSRPFX
*Insofar as they're supposed to link contingent truth and evidence
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.
Eminent Danish historian of science Helge Kragh on the controversy between steady state and Big Bang cosmologies, and "to what extent philosophers and scientists entered a dialogue" during the debate.
Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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The 2025 world press freedom index was just released
The US is ranked 57.
The report is clear: An “alarming deterioration of press freedom”.
Weaponising institutions, cutting support for media, sidelining reporters.
rsf.org/en/rsf-world...
New issue of Journal of the History of Philosophy Vol. 63, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54718 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social
Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak
New PhD Position at Maastricht University, in #philtech, #STS or #techethics of agricultural #automation. Come join a fun group of interdisciplinary scholars!
#HOPOS special issue on Nobel prize winning biologist François Jacob. With Jacques Monod, he proposed the concepts of "messenger RNA, regulator genes, operons and allosteric proteins" (www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...).
Issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/hop...
Image (c) Institut Pasteur
