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George A. Reisch & Adam Tamas Tuboly uncovered "the typescript on which the book under review is based": The Humanistic Background of Science. It had been "forgotten for more than 60 years."
Read the essay review by Hans-Joachim Dahms: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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In the latest #HOPOS, Jamie Shaw, Kevin C. Elliott, and Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira provide a transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists.”
Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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In "Styles Against Method", Joseba Pascual Alba explores "the connection between Feyerabend’s overarching anarchism and Ian Hacking’s “anarcho-rationalism,” as presented in [Hacking's] “styles project.”
Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A review of my book by Peter West (@peterwest23.bsky.social ) in HOPOS.
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Peter West reviews Andreas Vrahimis's book Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy in #HOPOS.
Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
In the latest issue of #HOPOS, Parysa Mostajir writes that John Dewey espouses a version of epistemological scientism, but one that 'diverges' significantly from more recent versions.
Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#hps #philsky #histsci
Susan Haack, a leading epistemologist and philosopher of logic, passed away yesterday.
Sit ei terra levis
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The latest ISHPSSB newsletter is out!
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Enjoy!
So turns out Cantor stole the proof that \\(\mathbb{R}\\) is uncountable from Dedekind www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infini...
Tipper was incredible - not only was she a Research Assistant in the DFRL at @rigb.org in the early 1920s, but simultaneously worked at the Royal School of Mines AND assisted GI Taylor at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social
Great War 1914-1918. Images of light colored soldiers, red soldiers, and graves. Each figure represents 1 million soldiers. Graves are soldiers killed (allies 8 million, central powers 3 million), wounded (allies 4 million, central powers 2 million), returning home (allies 28 million, central powers 15 million).
Günther Sandner reviews Silke Körber's _Die Visualisierung von Wissen im “Jahrhundert des Auges”: Otto Neurath, Isotype und Adprint_ in the latest #HOPOS.
Image credit Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection, University of Reading.
Review: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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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”.
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See me talk about a thing. (I'm less critical than it might sound from the abstract.)
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...
Delighted to share the news that my wonderful #HPS colleague @miguelohn.bsky.social has been appointed the next Director of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, beginning July 1st. Congrats Miguel!
www.bu.edu/cphs/about/
Calling master students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows in the fields of philosophy, life sciences & medicine!
Apply now to come to Bordeaux in June and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods
#philsky #philsci #biology #neuroscience
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Sander Verhaegh's "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective."
Part I: Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy (Spr 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Part II: Analytic versus Continental Philosophy (Fall 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
The full SHPS book forum on Inference and Representation is now out, with contributions by Chiara Ambrosio, Alexander Bird and Oscar Westerblad: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
I respond here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience
Congratulations to former MCPS postdoc Max Dresow for two recent publications. With Alan Love @thebjps.bsky.social - The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation. And in @universitypress.cambridge.org -
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New Special Issue of #HOPOS on Paul Feyerabend.
Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers.
Link to the special issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci
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The Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study."
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In the latest issue of #HOPOS Jacob McDowell notes the surprising fact that Thomas Kuhn endorses "aspects of the causal theory [of reference] in several later essays while maintaining the possibility of incommensurability".
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• Bing Al Overview The "Vienna circle" likely refers to Vienna's historic Ringstrasse cafes, such as Café Schwarzenberg and Café Landtmann, which are located along the famous city boulevard. These are traditional Viennese coffee houses, known for their elegant atmosphere, history, and as important social and intellectual hubs.
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In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism."
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“How science is changing”
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
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