An Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is a weird thing to tout, since Lebanon isn't a combatant. There is no Lebanese fire for the Lebanese government to cease.

International Society for Moral Psychology Inaugural ISMP ConferenceSeptember 17-19, 2026at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

The International Society for Moral Psychology has just launched. You can now join! ISMP’s inaugural conference will be held at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), 09/17–19, 2026, centered on the theme: Connecting, Advancing, and Nurturing Moral Psychology. Submit a talk or poster on its website!

Reasonable Doubt: Rethinking Trust in Science Join John M. Doris and Edouard Machery in conversation based on their forthcoming book that challenges the commonly endorsed idea that science ought to be trusted and presents a new perspective on…

Looking forward to welcoming John M. Doris and @edouardmachery.bsky.social to campus for their talk, “Reasonable Doubt: Rethinking Trust in Science.”
Fri 17 April, 1530, UMN West Bank.

Recently, Cliff Sosis interviewed me for his website “what is it like to be a philosopher”, and my interview is now available online. It was fun, and sometimes Illuminating, to reflect on my career so far and to answer his questions. Link below! Would love to hear your thoughts!

The deadline for applications is 15 May 2026.

HPS26 - Yafeng Shan Yafeng Shan

Lots of great summer events coming up!
History and Philosophy of Science: Past, Present, and Future
24 - 26 June 2026
Academic Building, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
www.shanyafeng.com/hps26

🚨Two weeks away!🚨

Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org.

🧠 Better Code, Better Science

📅22 April 2026

🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is...

#OHBM #OpenScience

The latest Original Ideas Podcast episode dives into antimicrobial resistance, a growing global health challenge, and highlights the important research underway in Liverpool to combat drug-resistant infections.

🎧 Listen now: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/03/31/o...

A little over 3weeks until we welcome Professor Roman Frigg, Head of LSE's Philosophy, Logic&Scientific Method, to present “Cyclones,Forecasts,&Uncertainty: How Model-Ensembles Can Be an Effective Guide to AnticipatoryAction.” 24.04, 1530. @lsephilosophy.bsky.social
buff.ly/ofrb9qc
buff.ly/vfSVdso

A split montage image of Charlotte Brontë: on the left, a vintage colorized portrait shows her seated in a dark Victorian dress with white lace collar, cuffs, and a red bow at the neck, her reddish-brown hair in a bun, holding a small brown book and gazing forward; on the right, a close-up of the title page of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë features a black enamel pin shaped like a woman’s profile silhouette filled with birds and branches, bearing the quote “I AM NO BIRD & NO NET ENSNARES ME,” with decorative leaf illustrations below.

English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë died #OTD in 1855 at age 38.

Her novel, 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘳𝘦, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. She is the eldest of the the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature.

#litsky #booksky #WomensHistoryMonth

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.

The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.

grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors, translators and presses.

Especially delighted to see @dances-with-voles.bsky.social on there – congratulations Ruth!

We've extended our deadline for submissions until April 9th :) send us all the cool philosophy of language you've been up to recently! 💫💫💫

#philosophy #cfa

@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld recap 3/4!

In a world that needs rethinking, their ideas are treasures!

For inspiration, thanks to @hannelore14089.bsky.social @eileenmhunt.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @lorissa.bsky.social @anitaleirfall.bsky.social . . .

I've loved doing #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld for #womenshistorymonth, highlighting 19C women who rethought philosophy, religion, science, art, mathematics, education, & more.

In a world that needs rethinking, their ideas are treasures.

Here they are again, no particular order! 1/4
#herstory

A picture of me, middle-aged white guy, beard, glasses, blazer, on a balcony with a foggy view of the US Capitol in the background.

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something.

If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do.

If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...

The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech is seeking one or more Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associates in the history or philosophy of 20th century physics.
Deadline: May 1st 2026
Application: buff.ly/Tfeuo2W
buff.ly/5AleaUd

Amanda Tuke photographed with binoculars lowered just below her face is superimposed over a block print of tree branches over a city background.

Join Amanda Tuke, author of 'Wild Pavements - Exploring Britain's Cities with an Urban Naturalist' in a guided Nature Walk around Notting Hill Gate this Summer!

@amandatuke.bsky.social

📍 Notting Hill Gate Station, London, England
📆 Jun 2 from 6 pm to 7:30 pm

buff.ly/uqskGGj

Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, Knightley Building, 2-4 June MONDAY 2nd JUNE From 9.00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION 9.25 WELCOME – CultPhil Team 9.30-11 ACADEMIES & NETWORKS Chair: Felicity Henderson (Exeter) Annalisa Nicholson (KCL), Mediating Knowledge Across Borders: Hortense Mancini, the Mazarin Salon, and the Royal Society  Carlotta Moro (Exeter), Women, Natural Philosophy, and the Italian Academies in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Study of the Ricovrati and the Arcadia  Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht), Latin: Language of Knowledge? A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Latinity across the Early Modern Low Countries and France  Coffee break 11.15-12.45 COMMUNITIES & READERS Chair: Carlotta Moro (Exeter) Meredith Ray (Delaware), Gender, Natural Philosophy, and the Oral Landscape in Early Modern Italy Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck), Publishing an Astronomical Book in Seventeenth-Century Silesia: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power  Kate Allan (Anglia Ruskin), “One rich usefull masse”: Katherine Philips and her Contemporary Scientific Readers Lunch 1.45-3.45 MEDICINE & BODIES Chair: Meredith Ray (Delaware) Giada Merighi (Pisa),  «Io lo vorei curare con questa dicozione» («I would like to treat you with this decoction»). ‘Medical’ advice in family letters from a female hand. The example of Claudia Grumelli Salis  Úna Faller (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon), “...to make a woemans milk come & increase, take the Green Leaves of fennell”: Manuscript recipe books’ epistemologies and herbal remedies for managing women’s health concerns, 1600-1697  Madeleine Sheahan (Yale), Mastering Time: Preservation, Longevity, and Timelessness  Ilaria Ferrara (Ferrara), From prejudices about women to gender stereotypes: new forms of female agency starting from Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's "Rigorous Investigation" 

4-5.00 CAVENDISH ROUNDTABLE: Esther Kearney (Nottingham), Sophie White (York), Evan Thomas (Otterbein), Chair: Sarah Hutton (York) TUESDAY 3rd JUNE 9.00-10.30 GENRES Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin), '"I am all a storm": Chaos and Disordered Matter in the Writings of Jane Cavendish and Frances Feilding Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht), Psychology, Alchemy and the Woman Philosopher-Poet: Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681)  Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), ‘So short do humours last’: Elizabeth Cary on Anger Management in The Tragedy of Mariam  Coffee 10.45-12.45 ECOFEMINISM & NONHUMAN ANIMALS  Eric Jorink (Leiden & Huygens Insitute, Amsterdam), Embroidery, Needles and Microscopes. Seventeenth-century Women and the Representation of Insects  Manuel Fasko (Basel), Anne Conway on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals (NHA)  Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Verse: Ecofeminist Poetry in Early Modern England  Catherine Evans (Exeter), “She rolls her unctuous embryo east and west”: Hester Pulter’s “creaturely poetics” and the Limits of the Maternal Body  Lunch 1.40-2.40 ROUNDTABLE 2: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY & POETICS Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL); Meredith Ray (Delaware); Helena Taylor (Exeter), Chair: Cassie Gorman (ARU) Comfort Break 2.45-4.15 WOMEN AND DESCARTES  Sarah Hutton (York), Women and Cartesian natural philosophy. From Margaret Cavendish to Émilie du Châtelet  Michaela Manson (Monash), The Natural Philosophy of Mary Astell  Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Mary Astell Reads Descartes  Tea 4.30-6.00 MANUSCRIPTS & EPISTEMOLOGIES Emma Bartel (Université Paris Cité), Looking for Women’s Engagement with Natural Philosophy in Marginal Manuscript Genres  Jil Muller (Paderborn), Oliva Sabuco on Natural Philosophy  Pedro Pricladnitzky (Paderborn), The Manuscript of Institutions de Physique: Émilie du Châtelet’s Development of Methodological Eclecticism  CONFERENCE DINNER 7pm Côte Brasserie

WED 4th JUNE 9.30-11 METHODS Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden) Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy  Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age  Coffee 11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION  Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen) Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique   Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy  Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer CLOSE AND LUNCH This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].

We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June

Women in Philosophy: Angie Pepper on animal companions As part of a series of talks dedicated to the work of women in philosophy, Dr Angie Pepper from the University of Roehampton discusses the structural injustices in the institution of pet keeping. The lecture was supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Highlights from the Women in Philosophy lecture series: Angie Pepper on structural injustice and companion animals youtu.be/hv6wVJ3T7zo... #ethics #philsky

So excited to share this excerpt, which also contains the first identifiable book typo! What a year for me to make that one in particular too lolol (iykyk)

We are excited to share the good news that the Consortium is fully funded &will run through March 2031. We have now begun work on some of the many activities we have planned for the next five years (for example, interdisciplinary workshops in early 2027). www.biologicalpurpose.org
#philsci #AlanLove

PSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science Association The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…

3 more PSA Office Hours this semester! All at 12pm EDT. April: Scientific Epistemology:KareemKhalifa, Pitt/UCLA: 8 April; May: Philos of Ecology:KarenKovaka (UC SanDiego)&CarlosSantana (UPenn): 7 May; May: Philos of Linguistics:GabrielDupre (UC Davis)&Ryan Nefdt (U CapeTown): 20 May

Please also check out the www.hps-mentoring-in-biology.org that comes from the ideas discussed in this paper.
#HPS-mentoring-in-biology

HOPOS 2026 Early-bird registration is now open. To register for HOPOS 2026, navigate to the registration page by clicking here.The

Registration now open for HOPOS 2026, the 16th Biennial Congress of HOPOS (The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science). Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 25 June 2026
buff.ly/SNV412s

📅 13 March, 12 EDT – Philosophy of Physics: James Ladyman
📅 8 April, 12 EDT – Scientific Epistemology: Kareem Khalifa
📅 7 May, 12 EDT – Philosophy of Ecology: Karen Kovaka & Carlos Santana
📅 20 May, 12 EDT – Philosophy of Linguistics: Gabriel Dupre & Ryan Nefdt

Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

yay!

This new #RSOS study shows that simple photos and modern #AI tools can reliably identify individual #birds and help monitor their behaviour without disturbing them. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @paritosh97.bsky.social

Thrilled to be speaking about #Prophecy at the TED2026 conference in Vancouver — check it out! #TED #authors

Join me!: tedtalks.social/carissav%C3%...