I am very much looking forward to participating in this interdisciplinary symposium on Sea Level Rise on Saturday, April 11. I'll be speaking on "The Rise & Fall of Sea Level
Measurements: A Brief History & Its Philosophical Lessons"
#HPS ⚒️ 🧪 #hpgeo
"Earth’s poles normally change position by several meters within a year due to the planet’s natural wobbling, so the observed changes don’t run the risk of catastrophic consequences. However, such studies highlight how profoundly human activity can influence the entire planet." #hpgeo ⚒️ 🧪
A. EINSTEIN PAPERS PROJECT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 20-7 1200 E. CALIFORNIA BLVD. PASADENA, CA 91125 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MACRO- AND MICROPHYSICS: WORKSHOP ON HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26TH, 2025, AT THE EINSTEIN PAPERS PROJECT 363 S HILL AVE, PASADENA, CA 91106 8:30: Arrival & Welcome (a continental breakfast will be available) 9:00: Qiu Lin (Simon Fraser University): "Moving Physics Forward: Du Châtelet's Qualified Embrace of the Monads" 9:40: Marius Stan (Boston College): "Microphysics and Phenomenology in Plastic Solids: Some Puzzles" 10:20: Coffee break 10:40: Janna Mueller (University of Cambridge): "Making Astronomy Physical: From Motion to Matter in the Early 19th Century" 11:20: Jan Potters (University of Antwerp): "Hazy Dots on Photographic Plates: Kaufmann's Experiments and the Electromagnetic Worldview" 12:00: Lunch Break 13:30: Joshua Eisenthal (California Institute of Technology): "Micro Doesn't Matter? The Abandonment of Microphysics in the Nineteenth Century" 4:10: Miguel Ohnesorge (University of Cambridge): "Micro Matter(s): The Adventures of Newtonian Gravitation at Small Distances" 14:50: Coffee break 5:10: Teru Miyake (Nanyang Technological University): "On Gaining Access: Microphysics, Seismology, and the Problem of Realism" 0:50: Junjie Dong (California Institute of Technology): "Conscripting Geophysics: Francis Birch, the Atomic Bomb and the Composition of the Earth's Core" 16:30: Closing Discussion 18:00: Dinner at Celestino Pasadena THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF ALBERT EINSTEIN
Great to see geosciences & geophysics making such a strong showing at a philosophy of physics & scaling conference! #hpgeo #philsci ⚛️
Apply to join us for this great workshop on philosophy & history of #geophysics at the Royal Institution London!
#phigeo #HPGeo #HPS ⚒️
The tags I have been using are #phigeo #histgeo & #hpgeo (for both history & philosophy of geosciences)
There is not yet a History & Philosophy of Geosciences topic feed to pick them up, but hopefully soon. 😊
Follow the new Make A Planet Podcast account ⤵️
@makeaplanetpod.bsky.social
🧪 ⚒️ #hpgeo #paleosky 🦖🦕🌍
Adding some new tags to Bsky #hpgeo #phigeo #histgeo (in hopes there will be a History & Philosophy of Geosciences feed some day...)
Oooo, looking forward to reading this over break! #HPS ⚒️ #HPGeo
www.lyellcollection.org/toc/mem/60/1
Cool--I didn't know about other European cases! In my Philosophy of Geosciences class I use Vic Baker's paper that draws on Mars analogy to argue philosophical commitments of geoscience community have evolved. #hpgeo
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1...
So cool--the #paleo Lake Missoula whose megaflood(s) carved out the beautiful scablands of eastern Washington State & led to one of the great debates in history of geosciences with J. Harlen Bretz & uniformitarianism vs catastrophism.
⚒️ #HPS #hpgeo
Two members of my Phi-Geo Research Group featured on #HPS Podcast talking about the exciting & rapidly growing area of philosophy of geosciences! 🙌
bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-g...
#hpgeo #philgeo ⚒️
RACHEL LAUDAN ( 1 980) THE METHOD OF MULTIPLE WORKING HYPOTHESES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLATE TECTONIC THEORY
Discussing a great #hpgeo paper by @rachellaudan.bsky.social in our seminar today, that draws on Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin's 1890 classic paper "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses"-- a work very familiar to geoscientists but virtually unknown to #philsci (likely due to neglect of #philgeo)
