I felt SOO cleansed after four Norwegians told me what my flaws were

Lovely day and truly stimulating discussion yesterday in Cambridge. Thank you to the hosts, the discussants and all the participants for their questions and remarks!

Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science are now on Bluesky! 🔭📚 @hpscambridge.bsky.social

Annual Conference | 2026 | BSPS The BSPS Annual Conference takes place on 21–23 July 2026 at the University of Leeds

Registration for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science is now open!

VENUE: University of Leeds
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Robin Hendry (Durham), Tarja Knuutila (Vienna), Eleanor Knox (KCL)
DATES: Tuesday 21 July — Thursday 23 July

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“… every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.” — @charlespeirce.bsky.social

Perhaps not quite what you’re looking for but Dewey frequently speaks of craftspeople as the originators of scientific method (which he thinks of as experimental). He gives a kind of history of this (and how their skills were devalued) in a few works, but memorably in Reconstruction in Philosophy.

Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

Reminds me of this paper on the shadow histories of philosophers and the influence of those shadows: muse.jhu.edu/article/2261...

Research Fellow - AR3263 at University of St Andrews Discover Research Fellow - AR3263 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Apparently we're hiring another two-year postdoc, for Aaron Cotnoir's Unity Project. AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r...

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Thank you, Katy! And thanks for your insightful comments on the different versions of this!

I'm looking to hire two postdoctoral researchers on The Consensus Project. Full-time research positions for three years. Preferably people in social/formal epistemology and/or philosophy of science. Please share widely!

More here:
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I am extremely grateful to @lisabortolotti.com and @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social for organising this symposium and to the fantastic contributors: Craig Bourne, Emily Caddick Bourne, Tamás Demeter, @zoedrayson.bsky.social, László Kocsis, Krisztián Pete, M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez, and Kendall L. Walton

Pragmatism, Metaphysics and Method - Nordic Pragmatism Network Essays for Bjørn T. Ramberg Edited by Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi & Robert Sinclair Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 5 March, 2026 ISBN 978-952-67497-4-7 422 + viii pp. Description This collection honours Bjø...

I'm delighted to have a piece, along with many friends, in this lovely open access collection. The volume is superbly edited by Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi and Robert Sinclair, as a birthday treat for Bjørn Ramberg. Happy Birthday, Bjørn! #philsky #nordic #pragmatism

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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/...

Dette var veldig bra! Du fanger mye av det jeg synes er frustrerende i diskusjoner om KI: mangel på kritisk tilnærming til (påstått) ekspertise og et særdeles naivt vitenskapsteoretisk rammeverk.

I fredagens Morgenbladet skriver Aksel Braanen Sterri en litt hårsår respons på Inga Strümkes kritikk av tankesmia der han er fagsjef, og deres finansieringskilder. Her er noen av mine tanker, avsnitt for avsnitt.

What Does Epistemological Scientism Mean for Philosophy? Insights from John Dewey’s Philosophy of Science | HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science: Vol 15, No 2 When discussing scientism, the most often cited concerns among philosophers are scientism’s implications for the legitimacy of philosophical methods and concepts and for philosophy’s value as a…

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/...

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Excited to share that I'll be joining the University of St Andrews as a Research Fellow from July 🥳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I'll be contributing my work on ideological scientism to @alicemurphs.bsky.social's excellent aesthetics of science project, which you can read more about here:

Terrific, looking forward to reading it! It sounds like it’ll be really useful in capturing a lot of discussions and worries surrounding understanding nowadays

This sounds and looks great!

In my own work I’ve been trying to argue that there is scientific achievement in the ability to construct a problem-space or articulate a question, even if we don’t yet have solutions or answers. Such construction and articulation frames the research activities in fundamental ways.

Yes!! I think this is super important. I’ve been trying to explore it a bit in my own work, but has recently found that Thomas Nickles makes this point well in a few papers on methods, problems, and heuristics from the 80s and 90s

CFP – Pre-conference workshop: Values in science in the rest of the world 24–25 August 2026, Helsinki – just before ENPOSS 2026 Keynote speakers: David Ludwig (Wageningen University) Karoliina Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki) The idea that social, political and ethical ...

If you work on values in science, and have noticed that the literature is a bit too focused on values in science in Anglophone democracies – and that it therefore stays silent on issues that we should be talking about – please consider submitting an abstract to our workshop! (24–25 August, Helsinki)

Delighted to see this volume out and open access with lots of interesting chapters related to the human right to science. My chapter explores the notion of ‘epistemic jurisdictions’ as a way of better understanding the interlacing of local knowledge and scientific knowledge under this human right.

Portrait of Emile Du Chatelet at desk with books, compass, armillary sphere (source: Wiki)

Titlepage and frontispiece of the third edition Newton's Principia (source Wiki)

Submissions (< 10,000 words) invited for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Topic Celebrating 300th anniversary of 3rd ed. Newton’s Principia.
www.duchateletprize.org
Winner will receive $1000, workshop & SHPS pub
Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD
Deadline September 1, 2026 #HPS

It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication!

But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.

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 🌱🐋

A friend of mine once gave them 1 star in a review on Facebook and they reached out to him to ask why he’d reviewed them so badly. They were surprised that putting everything behind an inaccessible paywall was unpopular apparently.