🔥 MODEL TRANSFER at the 1st Hannover-Groningen workshop where our team presented on challenges that the discipline-specificity of tractability standards poses for model transfer (Murat Bakeev) & simulating how model transfer across domains might depend on translators (by @belewollesen.bsky.social).

A philosopher interviews economists about rational choice

The economics Nobel Laureate Al Roth on my book👇. Check out my conversation with him on his work on mechanism design: marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-ph...

You two did a great job!

Thanks to all speakers, presenters, guests & helpers for making this event (organized by Edoardo & me) possible. I have learned so much and even more to think about. Very stimulating!

Check out my interview with Colin Camerer! So engaging to talk to him 👇 and, of course, have a look at the whole book. It finally exists 🔥

There is still live-posting from this inspiring workshop "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: The Case of Cultural Evolution" organized by @karimbaraghith.bsky.social & Edoardo Peruzzi. Check it out 👇(@erc.europa.eu)

We begin the second day of the workshop with a talk by @hanneand.bsky.social on interdisciplinary research, its forms, challenges, and role in scientific progress

🙏 Live-tweets about the 'Scientific Progress via Model Transfer' workshop here👇

@erc.europa.eu, @karimbaraghith.bsky.social

Check out the program and abstracts here: www.model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/news-and-...

🔥 This wonderful workshop on Scientific Progress via Model Transfer perfectly organized by Karim Baraghith and our own Edoardo Peruzzi started. 2 days of talks and posters that discuss the case of cultural evolution as a case of model transfer. But is it also progressive? @modeltransfer.bsky.social

Reminder: office hours with Kareem Khalifa THIS WEDNESDAY at noon EDT! Register at the link www.philsci.org/psa_office_h...

Thomas Schelling: Game theory identifies problematic situations, but then society discovers solutions. (In @cherfeld.bsky.social ’s book)

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
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Our intensive week of collaborative writing has come to a close, and the format has proven fruitful so far.

Screenshot of an email inbox, with seven email headers reading "reviewer declines assignment [followed by manuscript number]" and only one reading "reviewer accepts assignment".

This, at one point in the afternoon, was my Inbox today. Peer review in philosophy #philsky is out of control. I am grateful to the 1 colleague (out of 7) who agreed to act as a referee. For each paper, I had asked at least 3 other people, all of whom had either declined or failed to reply. (1/2)

🤔 MODEL TRANSFER challenge: This week, we have an intense writing week with the whole ERC team, trying to not only approach a new research topic (at least new for some of us) but also coming up with a first draft of a paper in a collective fashion. So far, its going well ...

AI and the Nature of Science: Keynote presentation by Carl Bergstrom YouTube video by MN Center for Philosophy of Science

how LLMs change incentives for research - a great talk by @carlbergstrom.com , had to watch in parts, a lot to digest. #institutional_epistemology at its best! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mj3... #philsci

A snapshot from last week’s doctoral seminar in Erfurt, where our team member Murat Bakeev gave a presentation

European Journal for Philosophy of Science The European Journal of Philosophy of Science publishes groundbreaking works that can deepen understanding of the concepts and methods of the sciences, as ...

Meet the new editors-in-chief of *EJPS*:

Catherine Herfeld & Samuel C. Fletcher

Here you can find more information about the associate editors and the editorial board of our journal:

link.springer.com/journal/1319...

#philsci

I will be one of the speakers at next year's meeting of the European Network for the Philosophy of Social Sciences. Consider sbmitting something (by March 1).
#ENPOSS, #philsci

We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science!

Details in the 🧵
Registration at this link: www.philsci.org/psa_...

Journals This is our best attempt at a comprehensive guide for journals that publish in philosophy of social science. If we have either misrepresented or omitted a journal and you are on the editorial board…

Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky

Conversations on Rational Choice Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Conversations on Rational Choice

Here is the Lin: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

🎉 Yesterday was the official publication date of my book Conversations on Rational Choice, CUP. So, it really exists and you can order your copy (pic by @maltedold.bsky.social because I still dont own one).

Our team member, PhD candidate Murat Bakeev, spoke today at an online session of the Phil-Econ-Model-Lab (PEM-L). This workshop, funded by INEM, aims to promote collaboration among early-career scholars, with a particular focus on analyzing the role of value judgments in economic modeling.

Amazing!

Check out the presentation by Edoardo Peruzzi, postdoc in my ERC project MODEL TRANSFER, at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, talking about Formal Template Accumulation, Unification, and Scientific Progress. Here is the video: lnkd.in/dYTXH-dD

Studs Terkel's oral history of the Great Depression Talking with economists, then and now.

Erwin Dekker (GMU) has a new post on the conversation format and oral history in the history of economics. Check it out to see why thats an exciting approach: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/studs-terk...

Another writing group Friday morning with coffee and pastries!