SEP entry on Aristotle's Biology, by James Lennox and Mariska Leunissen, has received a substantial revision. Very nice read!
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#philosophy #philsky #philsci
I understand that the Epic of Gilgamesh contains discussion about the meaning of an everlasting life amidst a world were there is no permanence. If that were to count as a philosophical argument of some sort, then that could be an interesting candidate to consider.
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Cool mug!
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing
Peter with HOPWAG volumes
HoPWaG Volume 8, on Philosophy in the Reformation, is out! Here it is with its happy author.
You can get it from Oxford University Press:
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Very cool! Congratulations on the publication! I hope to read it soon.
Very cool topic! Eager to read it in detail.
New paper: 'Natural Kind Fundamentalism', open access in Philosophical Studies:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This paper defends Natural Kind Fundamentalism (NKF), the view that the ontological category of natural kind is fundamental.
Which dog is the coolest in town? 🐕 At Paestum, it is the fearless pup hitching a ride on horseback – straight out of the third-century BCE Sequestro della Finanza tomb from the Spinazzo necropolis. #Archaeology 🏺
View up a deserted via Stabiana with a water tower on the right hand side, stepping stones at the crossroads and the shop and house entrances lining the road that leads to the outline of mount Vesuvius above which a large white cloud forms against a blue sky.
End of the day in #Pompeii
2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month.
They’ll appear in a new three-volume edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686), ed. by Lloyd Strickland and published by Oxford University Press dailynous.com/2026/03/27/l... #philsky
If you enjoy the cool content offered by @manymindspod.bsky.social, please consider giving a hand to the hardworking team behind it by completing their audience survey! 👇👇
The Roman forts on Hadrian’s Wall had an active military life of nearly 300 years and during that time required constant repairs and modifications. The weather was the most relentless enemy the soldiers faced. On the south wall at #Housesteads fort is this late interval tower built after AD240
🏛️ The Roman Odeion (Odeum), Ancient Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece, dates back to the 1st century CE. It was used for musical and rhetorical contests and has an estimated capacity of 3,000 spectators. 📷 My own.
#PhiMiSci has published a new book symposium on Mazviita Chirimuuta’s „The Brain Abstracted“, edited by Philipp Haueis. It features a précis by the author, seven commentaries, and her replies. Readers may also be interested in a #BrainsBlog post on the symposium, forthcoming later this week.
Anyone interested in the History and Philosophy of Technology, be sure to check this call for abstracts! This is a great event. I presented on the last version, and had blast and learnt a lot.
#philtech #philosophy
Happy Mother’s Day to Demeter, who loved her daughter so much she forced even Zeus to take notice…
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View down the portico of the Grande Palaestra of the display cases housing the casts
One of the casts lying on his back. Behind him the Grande Palaestra is bathed in sunlight.
A reflection of one of the casts on display
A day filled with poignant reflection as the permanent exhibition dedicated to the plaster casts of ancient Pompeians opened in #Pompeii.
At last they are given context: where, when and how they were found, what they were found with, and details such as their sex and approximate age.
Here is a video presenting my Chair for Philosophy and Blockchain at the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research (ZIBR), University of Lucerne: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_3t...
Above: underground section of an aqueduct (interior of a stone tunnel). Below: arched, bridge section of an aqueduct crossing a river.
How did the Romans ensure an adequate supply of clean and fresh water for the Empire? Statistical analysis shows, for the first time, how aqueducts were carefully planned to supply larger settlements with more water #WednesdayWisdom
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
New paper in Cognition: We know people find LLM (moral) arguments persuasive, but are people being persuaded in an epistemically responsible way?
No. 🧵
With @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social and @jimaceverett.bsky.social
#philsky #psychology #AI www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.
What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋
My paper on 🌱🦧 ANIMAL MEDICINE 🐜🍄, written with Cristian Saborido (office mate and tip-top philosopher of biology and medicine), is finally out in Philosophy of Science.
We offer a cool new framework for understanding medicine in different species, including our own. And it's ✨ OPEN ACCESS ✨
Three volumes of Leibniz' writings are about to be published by Oxford University Press.
300+ texts in a new translation. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cool topics! Perhaps an additional topic of interest might be simplification. Simplification already occurs in scientific practices. It would be interesting to think about how to approach scientific communication that simplifies science that already engages in simplification.
I've created a new web page for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (#SGGK) which as well as covering my own illustrated translation (published by @wiltonsquare.bsky.social) also contains links to numerous articles about this literary masterpiece. More here: www.mythicalbritain.co.uk/sir-gawain-a...
Very nice piece!
Cool project!
