Some of us in philosophy of science have been concerned abt this wrt computational methods for almost three decades (before AI) without anyone really listening. The Epistemic opacity in scientific computer simulations literature started bc of this concern. Glad people are catching up.
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New Podcast Episode: Visiting Fellow Laurenz Casser discusses his work on the scientific study of pain. Available now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. #philsci #podcast
LLMs are often referred to as "stochastic parrots 🦜," a label that assumes they cannot bear meaning. But how could this be evaluated? @tjc1999.bsky.social distinguishes three problems around #AI and meaning in a short Substack reflection 👇 moralweights.substack.com/p/should-we-... #philsky #philsci
Flyer image for our symposium’s second workshop, titled, "Madness as a Way of Seeing - An Experimental Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper” and happening on April 18th from 10-11:30a PT 1-2:30p ET 6-7:30 GMT. The description reads, "fACILITATED BY CARA-JULIE KATHER, PHD (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Independent Scholar, THIS WORKSHOP ASKS “What is seen, heard, AND experienced in modes routinely understood as mad? What do we find out when we engage with madness as a way of perceiving?” In this workshop we experiment on this matter together by engaging with reading and writing collectively. The short story - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – will guide and inspire us as it is a story of a “woman gone mad” dating back to the patriarchal diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ common in the Victorian era. We will read parts of this story and let it wash us into our own writing on mad seeing."
Full Day 2 Symposium Schedule flyer. You can view this on our eventbrite registration site and our conference website, linked in previous posts.
✍🏾💛 Day 2 Workshop Announcement! This one’s for all you medical/health and experimental humanities folks. 💛✍🏾
"Madness as a Way of Seeing: An Experimental Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper"
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New BJPS Short Read, for your reading or listening pleasure!
Scientists on Tap, Not on Top
Stephen John argues that scientists cannot, and should not, care about policymakers’ values
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A bit more time left to apply to the Summer Development Program run by the Logic & Philosophy of Science Dept this summer 2026 @ucirvine.bsky.social #philsci #philsky
The SDP runs from August 2nd-8th, 2026 & applications are due by *April 17th, 2026*!
See website for more details: lpssdp.com
What does it mean for memory when we take a break from a task and then know how to go back to it? Today at the The Memory Palace Thor Grünbaum (Univ of Copenhagen) analyzes this form of mental commitment we make with ourselves. Check it out!
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Join us Friday for a Featured Former Fellow talk with Sherrilyn Roush. For more information and the Zoom link, visit our website: www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/featured-former-fe... #philsci
Check out this nice review of the Element (short book) @mjacquart.bsky.social and I coauthored. A PDF of the Element is freely available from @universitypress.cambridge.org, here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Day 2 full schedule just dropped! This is free[dot]com, and you’ll get access to session recordings for a month afterward if you can’t attend in person.
Spread the word, invite your friends, and register today!
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Gabriel et al. (1996) developed parametric models for the dielectric spectrum of biological tissues, showing how properties shift from Hz to GHz. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/41/11/003 #DielectricProperties #philsci
Still two weeks to submit your abstract for our Beyond Neurocomputationalism workshop (Antwerp 4-5 June). Keynote Speakers include Kate Nave, Romain Brette, Vicente Raja, Matteo Mossio, Mazviita Chirimuuta & Alicia Juarrero!
Info below!
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Call for abstracts and more information: amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...
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New from the BJPS Review of Books
The Organism
– Jan Baedke
Reviewed by Matthew Sims
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Lovely session (in Spanish!) last Wednesday with researchers at UNAM's Institute of Philosophy on Inference and Representation. Amazingly good questions and comments. Thanks for the careful reading and attention! ¡Gracias!
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Replacement changes what tools are available. Displacement changes how science is done.
@nicodmueller.bsky.social's revisit of “Lane‑Petter’s Pipeline” provides the wider lens we need to modernize and humanize biomedical research.
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Janusz Czelakowski on Logical Consequence
'Janusz Czelakowski on Logical Consequence' is dedicated to the life and work of logician Janusz Czelakowski on the topic of logical consequence. It consists of three parts – a biography, a survey, and research sections. bit.ly/47wNgcP #PhilSci #BookSky
Join us in the Center next week for an in-person watch party for Edouard Machery and John Doris’s book manuscript “Reasonable Doubt: Should We Trust Science?” for the upcoming symposium at the Pacific Meeting of the APA. Cookies and coffee will be provided. #philsci
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Sometimes we try to explain one thing but end up explaining something else. In this paper, I address when this is a problem, which I call the “Problem of Explaining Shifting Targets” (PEST).
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(Available open access)
Sharing a bit of the original artwork from the forthcoming book, ANATOMY, ARCHITECTURE, & PHENOMORPHOLOGY OF THE HUMAN BODY: The Skull & the Phenomorphology of the Portrait, available at www.phenomorphologyllc.com. Use with attribution only.
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🐣 Happy to announce another OA publication, co-written with Cornelius Borck (Lübeck) and published in HPLS:
*Sorting Out and Navigating Uncertainty in Precision Medicine*
doi.org/10.1007/s406...
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The idea that the universe is fundamentally mathematical is one of the leading frameworks in modern thought. | https://bit.ly/4tkz3Iw
But Martín López Corredoira invites us to reconsider, questioning whether mathematics describes the world as it is, or as we are able to conceive it.
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Some MA funding at Leeds School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science!
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🤓 New OA publication in EJPS
*Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine*
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The aim of this article is to understand the problem of "black box" algorithms, an issue inherent to the nascent field of ⁰Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). While it is relatively easy to understand something someone explained to us, it becomes more complicated when no one can fully grasp the issue. Our purpose is however to highlight: (1) that we should speak of interpretability rather than explainability when we seek to understand models, mainly because we never have complete and unambiguous access to information; (2) that the machines face the problem of the inscrutability of reference, in the same way that the linguist imagined by Willard Van Orman Quine cannot precisely determine what the term "gavagai" refers to in a situation of radical translation; (3) that there is no rule for the application of language, except for "language games", as Ludwig Wittgenstein's linguistics teaches us. The hope of achieving complete explicability and transparency of algorithms is undoubtedly in vain: we can only rely on partial and broad interpretations that will never fully explain the underlying rules.
I wouldn't say that for everything I wrote, but rereading and translating it a year after it's been published, I believe it's a decent piece of work.
"What don't you understand?" Language games and black box algorithms
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