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Posts by Maarten Van Dyck

Iedereen kan voor zichzelf besluiten wat hieruit te leren valt.

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Bijzonder leerrijk draadje over het Cofnas-drijfzand. Het is een beetje een “garden of forking paths”, vandaar dat ik hier de laatste post herplaats, maar het is de moeite om terug helemaal naar boven te gaan en ook alle zijpaden (posts met meer dan één antwoord) te verkennen.

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Boudry en Duyck verraden eigen principes in verdediging ‘rassenrealist’ Nathan Cofnas Maarten Boudry en Wouter Duyck breken een lans voor de racistische pseudowetenschapper.

Een opiniestuk over de verdediging van Cofnas door Maarten Boudry en Wouter Duyck, een bepaalde peiling en frustraties over @terzake.bsky.social

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Ik gaf een korte toelichting bij @vrtnws.be over het "onderzoek" van Nathan Cofnas, naar aanleiding van een open mail getekend door meer dan 400 UGent'ers (bij de laatste telling). Hierbij een draadje met voorspellingen over het publieke debat én hoe je niet te laten strikken door mist-spuiers 🧵

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Amazing work!

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Omdat het 'Cofnas doet "gewoon" controversieel onderzoek'-narratief ingang begint te krijgen: een aantal verduidelijkingen en informatie voor het bredere publiek dat misschien niet altijd op de hoogte is over racistische pseudowetenschap 🧵

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Very proud of my former PhD student Ivan Malara - he is such a great scholar!

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Very proud of my former PhD student Ivan Malara - he is such a great scholar!

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Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

2 months ago 45 20 2 0
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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution Cambridge Core - History of Science and Technology - The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

Laura Georgescu reviews David Marshall Miller and Dana Jalobeanu's The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution in #HOPOS.

Review: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Book website: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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How the Mind-World Problem Shaped the History of Science: A Historiographical Analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Part I This manuscript, divided into two parts, provides a contextual and historiographical analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's classic The Metaphysical Foundat…

An interesting contextualization of Burtt's work (in two parts) was published a few years ago, offering a more detailed analysis of how it fits in early 20th C American philosophical landscape, putting it in slightly different light: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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History of Science in an Elegiac Mode: E. A. Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Revisited | Isis: Vol 82, No 3

I always like this older piece by Lorraine Daston on what she called the "elegiac mood" of another (somewhat related) classic from the same period (E.A. Burtt) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Eugenics: Critical Perspectives on a Creeping Concept Between Science and Ideology | Humanities Academie

The department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University is proud to present a lecture series on the topic of eugenics. As philosophers and ethicists, we are concerned about the revival and normalization of eugenic discourse.

humanitiesacademie.ugent.be/eugenics

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Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy

Come join our department! 🚨

Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky

Feel free to reach out to me with questions!

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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Maarten Van Dyck, Defending constructive empiricism - PhilPapers Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this positi...

You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers!
#philsci #hps

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If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...

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Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy

Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

4 months ago 29 21 0 1

New on the Archive:

Van Dyck, Maarten (2026) Defending constructive empiricism. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27313/

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Thanks Mauricio!

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Maarten Van Dyck, Defending constructive empiricism - PhilPapers Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this positi...

You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers!
#philsci #hps

4 months ago 25 8 1 1

Een aantal jaren geleden schreef ik een artikel over de zogenaamde "science wars" in de jaren '90, wat er daarin misliep en hoe daar de kiemen werden gelegd voor de retoriek dat universiteiten overgenomen waren door "postmodernisme" 1/

www.ethiekenmaatschappij.ugent.be/wp-content/u...

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Racistische pseudowetenschap hoort niet thuis aan de universiteit Vakgroepleden distantiëren zich van haar associatie met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.

Samen met enkele collega's schreef ik een stuk in Apache waarin we ons distantiëren van de associate van onze vakgroep met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
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🤩 KRIJG NOU WAT!* 🤩
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*Euh, ik bedoel: Koop dit! Vanaf september in uw boekhandel 🥳

10 months ago 21 3 1 0

An inspiring paper on how to write history of philosophy

11 months ago 3 1 1 0

Looking forward to that! And I think it is absolutely correct to frame this in terms of commitments in the first place, rather than ideas or assumptions…

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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I’m not sure whether I’d consider myself a historian of mathematics, but in this piece I tried to show the importance of what we can learn from Bennett’s analyses (as well as those of a certain Johnston) to a philosophical audience philpapers.org/archive/VANA...

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His encouragement over the years meant the world to me. One of the true greats in our field.

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“Clean”, “clear” - whatever.

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Thanks for pointing this out! So, to be clean: @mvandyck is the only real one… What a madness.

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@mvandyck is the real me, whatever that still means in this “social” media madness…

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