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Iniciativa incrível de um banco de dados de filosofas brasileiras. Por favor, compartilhem! Já mandei meu cadastro!
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Online #HPS seminar with Henry-James Meiring: "Piratical Knowledge and the Making of the Darwinian Revolution", 1 April, 12pm (Melbourne time): www.hpsunimelb.org/seminars (join the email list to receive link and password)
#histsci
Check out @jswilkins.bsky.social on "Natural classification and the rise of systematics 1735-1900", HPS at Melbourne seminar on Weds., March 18, 12-1pm (Melbourne time): unimelb.zoom.us/j/8612353200... (password: 535693)
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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...
#philsci #histsci #seismology
A fre days left to apply to the Lake Como Summer School in philosophy of economics
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org?fbclid=IwZnR...
Congrats Wendy!
Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci
ABSTRACT. There is a widely held view on measurement inferences that defends the prohibition that we should not make inferences from averages taken with ordinal scales (versus quantitative scales; interval or ratio). This prohibition is general—applying to all ordinal scales—and is sometimes endorsed without qualification. Adhering to it dramatically limits research in the social and biomedical sciences. I provide a Bayesian analysis of this problem, determining when measurements from ordinal scales can be used to confirm hypotheses about relative group averages. I illustrate with the alleged paradigm ordinal scale—the Mohs scale of mineral hardness—arguing that it has been mischaracterized in the literature. The prohibition, I conclude, cannot be upheld, even in a qualified sense. The beliefs needed to make average comparisons are less demanding than those appropriate for quantitative scales.
From the new issue:
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)
– Cristian Larroulet Philippi
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Volume 76, Issue 4 Table of Contents Editors' Choice Article: Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction By Sara Aronowitz Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong By Lu Chen Biochemical Functions By Francesca Bellazzi The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations By Sheldon Goldstein, Ward Struyve, and Roderich Tumulka A Hybrid Theory of Induction By Adrià Segarra Bayesian Merging of Opinions and Algorithmic Randomness By Francesca Zaffora Blando Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK) By Cristian Larroulet Philippi Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking By Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre, and Aja Watkins A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks By Oliver Buchholz and Eric Raidl General-Purpose Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics: The Case of Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty By David Thorstad The Typical Principle By Isaac Wilhelm
Santa has come early! New issue out now, full of festive treats for all the family. Biochemical functions and quantum fluctuations! Weyl tiles and ordinal scales! Mass extinctions, artificial neural networks and much more…Find it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur...
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Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
Hello all! The PSA DEI Caucus is coming to BlueSky! Hoping to share news about our wonderful membership and our @philsci.bsky.social community at large! Doggo Pic for attention. #philosophy #hps #dei
An STS classic: O’Connell, Joseph. 1993. Metrology: The Creation of Universality by the Circulation of Particulars.
A recent history one: Jackson&Wassermann 2022. "When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry"
Besides Porter and Daston&Galison, two classics in Hist are
Simon Schaffer's 1988 "Astronomers Mark Time: Discipline and the Personal Equation" and 1992. Late Victorian Metrology and Its Instrumentation: A Manufactory of Ohms.
There's a lot in Hist and Soc of Sci (not sure how much there's in Phil Sci, keen to see what other people say).
Hey, thanks for reading it! It is intended. Because for many authors it is not tautological, I thought important to emphasize when I was speaking specifically of quantitative (interval or ratio) measurement.
I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science.
It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices.
Comments welcome!
philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2
Deadline Extended!
Call for abstracts for our Spring Conference - To Be or Not to Be Included in a Causal Model
Visit the link for detailed instruction and more information: www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/to-be-or-not-to-be...
I had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week.
We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.
Check out our podcast!
Catch up on past episodes as host Dr. Edouard Machery discusses topics with members of the Philosophy of Science community.
Spotify - podcasters.spotify.c...
YouTube - www.youtube.com/play...
Stay tuned for future updates!
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We need a new vision for mental health measurement where responsible social interactions are the goal and not a lucky byproduct. This is what Femke Truijens and I argue in this new preprint. Feedback welcome, please share! #ClinPsy #MentalHealth #PsycSci #PsychSciSky #PhilSci osf.io/preprints/ps...
An exciting conference in Montreal on values and mental health, organized by Zoey Lavallee and @annemariegj.bsky.social . Nov 6-7. Spread the word! #ClinPsy #MentalHealth #PsycSci #PsychSciSky #PhilSci #PhilSky www.lecre.umontreal.ca/en/event/per...
A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement
Don’t know, maybe not…
🎙️ New HPS Pod!
I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.
🎧 Link in bio!
#HOPOS
Mark Wilson’s term?
I chat with Thomas Spiteri on measurement in the human sciences. I think the interview came along very well 😊
bsky.app/profile/hpsp...
Thanks to Thomas for all the work put into the podcast.
#philsci #measurement
#philsky
What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧