Mel Andrews

some books are not made with the intent that individuals should buy them

Methods in the Philosophy of Science The last twenty years have seen multiple methodological revolutions in the philosophy of science: There has been increased diversity concerning the questions...

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.

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The last twenty years have seen multiple methodological revolutions in the philosophy of science. In "Methods in the Philosophy of Science," Sophie Veigl and Adrian Currie introduce this range of methods through both practical advice and philosophical reflection: bit.ly/3GnXFxb

When Israel Murders U.S. Citizens, the U.S. Govt Looks Away How many names of these 9 U.S. citizens killed by Israel since 2022 alone do you recognize?

www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-israe...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Please keep me in mind for any tenure-track lines or lectureships you run across in philosophy of science and technology or applied ethics, STS, responsible AI, data science institutes, information schools or similar.

Hello friends. A life update is in order. I am now Dr. Andrews. I will spend the next two years at Princeton as a postdoctoral fellow. I am, however, still on the job market for something permanent. Please alert me if you hear of opportunities for which you think I would be a good fit!

i’ve always been geographically challenged but i’m pretty sure clayton isn’t even a state

in my experience 1 in 10 will list a teaching load

I have a crush on every STS department that is currently hiring

it’s so hot how departments that are not philosophy departments will disclose teaching loads in adverts for faculty posts so you don’t spend six months applying and interviewing and flying out for a job that’s secretly a 5/5

I neither endorse nor attest to the legality of any suggestions here mentioned.

How are folks getting web access to books and articles in 2025?

"Instructed in assembly line procedures" is a good description that applies to all science (& philo).

Teaching research design as a creative act rather than a cookbook is hard.

Most grad students & ECRs want to be accepted into a club/identity. That means learning its norms, not free thinking.

Your thread reminds me of Halme et al.'s (2024) concept of "rigour-by-convention," which risks the inappropriate application of methodological conventions leading to "false rigour."

In contrast, "craft-based rigour" is context-based and irreducible to a set of protocols.

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Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

“A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

Time to take what is ours BACK

Opinion: Bret Stephen’s No, Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza.

The New York Times is an active participant in genocide. Its crimes must never be forgotten or forgiven.

can games be ergodic

we need an immunity to random initialization index

A running theme in Woods' telling is how even those who opposed Hitler blamed his rise on the "depravity" and excess of Weimar Berlin "as if the mere presence of ersatz women in the club was enough to foment and justify a right-wing putsch"--a phrase I find myself repeating often

“I wrote a friendly and progressive manifesto about eradicating the heathens who dare to defy gender norms”

“I’m just innocently doing a little philosophy about how the Aryan male has been displaced from his rightful role in society” look, buddy,

Or perhaps it is because they were not merely flirting with the aesthetics of fascism all along but are in fact actual fascists whose entire political identity hangs on performative aggrievement

Brett it’s because they are actual fascists and their entire political identity hangs on performative aggrievement

I think this really is key to understanding the current moral panic, most of the attacks on trans youth healthcare focus on preventing trans masc youth from transitioning. I wrote a thing about this ages ago! purplepawclan.com/blog/why-tra...

We should dare question our basic epistemic assumptions about how we go about doing science and dare explore why and how there are sound, rigorous, interesting, progressive parts of the scientific landscape instead of pretending that unbounded transparency and bureaucracy will be our saviors.

It’s stuff like this that strengthens my resolve to leave academic philosophy for a discipline with any trace left of seriousness and scholarly rigor

I'm not sure philosophers get how discrediting it appears to those outside the discipline that these people maintain any level of professional status