Mike Christenson continues to publish wonderful papers putting the inferential conception to use in architecture. I could not be more chuffed - exactly the kind of reaction I was hoping for with Inference and Representation:
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Honoured by the election to Academia Europaea / The Academy of Europe: www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Su...
Very grateful and much obliged to my proponents - Martin Carrier and Tarja Knuuttila - both of whom I admire and respect hugely.
Pero identificas la facultad y los personajes, ¿verdad? ¿Sabes quién es Fontana, etc? Pues, esa realidad...
Esto de David está bastante bien. Ojalá pueda hacerle ver la realidad a gente como @sebasfaber.bsky.social.
“La chica más lista que conozco” quiere estudiar filosofía
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Lovely session (in Spanish!) last Wednesday with researchers at UNAM's Institute of Philosophy on Inference and Representation. Amazingly good questions and comments. Thanks for the careful reading and attention! ¡Gracias!
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As early as 1962 with The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.
See e.g.: lareviewofbooks.org/article/habe...
One of Habermas' many merits was to be the first to understand the reactionary form of postmodernism behind Adorno and Horkheimer's unduly influential Dialectics of Enlightenment.
No thinker ever did so much to restore the cause of reason.
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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.
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Photographic portrait of H by Julia Margaret Cameron. Wikipedia.
John Herschel was born OTD in 1792.
His 1831 Preliminary Discourse launched a flowering of reflection on the aims and methods of science among British thinkers that was so rich and influential that Charles Sanders Peirce would later dub it “the Age of Method.”
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It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!
"An account of representation must make room for misrepresentation in all its different varieties."
"Representation is not a success term. You can represent something and do it very poorly, with very little success."
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yes, I discuss isomorphism, partial isomorphism, and homomorphism extensively. But only and always in the context of the work these structural notions may perform in models in empirical science. I come out strongly against the former two but I am more amenable to the latter.
New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science
YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo
Podcast: bit.ly/4rKRRQb
It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!
I don't, although on my deflationist view there turns out to be no difference in kind between mathematical and scientific representation...
I do discuss mathematical models in science though...
"Nothing represents unless it has the capacity to license some surrogative inferences ... however minimal, inappropriate, misleading, or incorrect these inferences might be’ (Mauricio Suárez, 2024, p. 157)
Excellent review of Inference & Representation by @guicogsci.bsky.social in Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Welcome to Bluesky, Gui!
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It was an honor and a privilege to study under, and work with, Bas at San Francisco State. In particular, his advanced logic course brings back so many wonderful and impactful memories. I can't think of a more deserving philosopher for such a prize! #philsci #philosophy
Truly historic, for Latin America, Europe, and the world: youtu.be/9XRaHzTEOXs?...
Deadline approaching!👇
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New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky
Wonderful. Congratulations. Is it coming out in the special issue in honour of Paul (Humphreys)?
Some excellent jobs in a new teaching program in #xrisk in Germany – please share. Link to the page for the course below.
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new bi-weekly podcast where logic, mathematics, philosophy, and computer science meet #philsky
Excellent abstract
2025 has been a difficult year, which I will be happy to leave behind. Yet, it has turned into my most prolific year in terms of publications. The below 7 papers / book chapters are amongst my best ever. Some were researched and written in previous years, obviously. Still, remarkable productivity.
Ditto Martín!
