Nice to have a digestible video all about Causal Set Theory. #physics #quantumgravity #philsci

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🎥 Highlights from today's talk with Simon DeDeo

Today's talk was our last event of the semester, we'll be back in the fall! #philsci

A science-first theory of confirmation - Metascience Metascience -

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First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation.

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Article header from the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2026), labeled “Paper in Philosophy of Science in Practice.” The title, “Pursuitworthiness of breakthrough experiments: transforming emerging intuitions into established norms,” appears in bold above the author Szymon Miłkoś (with ORCID icon).

Unconventional experiments that later redefine what counts as 'pursuitworthy' are excluded by strict standards. Szymon Miłkoś suggests that we need “transformative” standards: judge risky research by how well it turns intuitions into shareable norms 📄👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPS #philsci

Sign Letter: Protect Scientific Institutions in Iran The American-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and its allies has involved bombing many civilian targets and, as of writing, has resulted in strategic defeat for the aggressors. Their aggression was morally depraved. Scientists everywhere add their voices to the global condemnation of all US-Israeli atrocities. We also note with

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Applications for the Summer Archival Fellowship are due in three weeks. Scan the QR code or visit our website for more information about the program. #philsci www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/summer-archival...

Remote possibilities in branching time structures - Synthese To analyse contingent propositions, this paper investigates how branching time structures can be combined with probability theory. In particular, it considers assigning infinitesimal probabilities—available in non-Archimedean probability theory—to individual histories. This allows us to introduce the concept of ‘remote possibility’ as a new modal notion between ‘impossibility’ and ‘appreciable possibility’. The proposal is illustrated by applying it to a future contingent and a historical counterfactual concerning an infinite sequence of coin tosses. The latter is a toy model that is used to illustrate the applicability of the proposal to more realistic physical models.

In her recent 📄, Sylvia Wenmackers links branching time structures with non-Archimedean probability theory, and in doing so lends modal notions such as 'remote possibilities' and 'appreciable possibilities' a firm theoretical grounding 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #mathsky #philsky

Our Inevitable Third Spinoza Controversy Ontologies of Necessity and Environmental Nihilism

'Our Inevitable Third Spinoza Controversy' by Katherine C. Snow dives into the enduring philosophical debates around necessity, nature, and today’s environmental crisis. A bold exploration of how centuries‑old ideas illuminate our modern struggle with environmental nihilism. bit.ly/4t1eSPO #PhilSci

Starting next Wednesday, we continue to explore questions of #digitality #complexity and digital complexity at @core-rwth.bsky.social with a cast of brilliant speakers!! #sts #philsci #sociology #theory

I've nearly finished this book.

(It has been a very busy 8 months in which i've also read very many other things.)

But I would recommend it!

Or most of it. Maybe skip the middle third, & hold your nose when he talks about sex...

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From the Examination Room to Cyberspace: The Story Behind "Cyberspatial Privacy in the Digital Age" Bringing together medicine and philosophy, we explore how spatial theory and digital ethics meet in the clinic. Drawing on proxemics, this reflection asks how healthcare technologies can protect patient privacy without losing sight of the relational conditions that make confidentiality meaningful.

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'From the Examination Room to Cyberspace: The Story Behind "Cyberspatial Privacy in the Digital Age.' Bringing together medicine and philosophy, this explores how spatial theory and digital ethics meet in the clinic. 🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/4tuHQaY. #PhilSci

Begegnung mit dem eigenen Tod Nahtoderfahrungen als Brüche und Kontinuitäten in autobiografischen Erzählungen

Dieses #OpenAccess-Buch beleuchtet Nahtoderfahrungen im Wandel der Zeit: von historischen Todesdefinitionen über religiöse Deutungen bis hin zu autobiografischen Erzählmustern. Eine spannende Analyse, wie Menschen außergewöhnliche Erfahrungen in ihr Leben integrieren. bit.ly/48odZbO #PhilSci #SocSky

ABSTRACT. Much of the literature on values in science is framed around the idea of a shift in the status of the so-called value-free ideal (VFI) for science: having been widely accepted in the past, it has now come to be thoroughly rejected. Instead, the commonly asserted view now is that there is a new problem for philosophy of science to address, namely, distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate value-influence on science. While understanding the many intricate ways that values can influence science is an important task for philosophy, we argue that this framing—that there is a single phenomenon to be understood or a single problem to be solved—is misleading and liable to distort inquiry. This framing creates a chimera.

Just accepted:

The New Chimera for Values in Science
– Arnon Levy & Jacob Stegenga

Abstract in alt text or read the paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Cool! One of the topics of our #philsci 2 course, which I am progressively spending less tie on. Maybe mistakenly, but I think this topic is a bit boring. I prefer to spend time on causal inference. Tell me I'm wrong!

Getting in the mood to teach #philsci 2 on Monday, by browsing Rosenberg‘s textbook which is one of my faves.

Highlights from today's talk with Sven Neth. 🎥

Join us Friday for the last talk of the semester! #philsci

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🔹 Unification: Why the best explanations connect the most dots.
It includes a stylized, animated PPT bundle ready for the classroom or a deep dive.

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I've included a stylized, animated PPT bundle that's free for educators and students to use.

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This is free for students, teachers, and the "science-curious." It includes a stylized, animated PPT bundle ready for your next lecture or deep dive.

Check it out here:
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Discovering a self-determined pathway to sustainable spiritual growth

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Discovering a self-determined pathway to sustainable spiritual growth.' A heutagogical, self-determined learning approach supports sustained adult spiritual growth through non-directive mentoring. 🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/48bqB64. #PhilSci #ResearchPublishing

Science Without Trust | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core Science Without Trust - Volume 92 Issue 5

It’s hard to take one’s mind off the world events today, but here is something to distract you maybe. My paper Science Without Trust is now officially published. #philsci

Measuring ancestry - Biology & Philosophy Biology & Philosophy - In the past decades, there has been a significant shift in the labels used to describe human populations in large-scale genomic studies. Such labels are known as...

I have a new paper out in Biology & Philosophy where I explore the overlap between the philosophy of measurement and ancestry in human population genetics. Very grateful to the philosophers & scientists who encouraged me to write this up!

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Another war crime by Israel and the USA. An important place for free, independent philosophy of science in Iran destroyed by criminal bombing. #philsci

American Philosophical Association

I'm looking forward to it. Great comments from diverse perspectives by Villegas, Elliott-Graves, and Skillings. Conference info: apaonline.org/2026pacific#APAPacific26. There's a pinned thread on the book at my profile. #philsci #hpbio #philsky #evolution #ecology #symbiosis #causation #probability

I recently discovered that I’m the only one in the #birder community both taking a flâneur approach to the whole thing, and, importantly, using pataphysics as both a method of inquiry and as a taxonomy.

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Five Lessons on Wisdom: Power, Freedom, and Human Nature in the Panchatantra (English Edition) Five Lessons on Wisdom: Power, Freedom, and Human Nature in the Panchatantra (English Edition) eBook : Borrelli, Davide Smith, Reitani, Marella: Amazon.it: Kindle Store

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La liberté n’est pas perdue en un instant : elle s’érode lentement, lorsque nous cessons d’assumer le poids de nos choix.

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