Two older gentlemen standing in front of green misty hills (David Hull & Michael Ruse at Glen Roy)

Thanks for sharing these memories & stories! I never met Michael in person, but he & I corresponded when I was 1st putting together my #philgeo course & he was very supportive. He told me story about he & David Hull going to see Darwin's "great failure" of parallel paths at Glen Roy & sent this pic

Down to Earth Underdetermination on JSTOR GORDON BELOT, Down to Earth Underdetermination, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 91, No. 2 (SEPTEMBER, 2015), pp. 456-464

I devote a class (sometimes a week) to having the students read selections from Duhem's Aim & Structure (incl but not just his holism). For #philgeo pair w/ Belot's "Down to Earth Underdetermination" on inverse modeling, which was insp by @terumiyake.bsky.social's work.
www.jstor.org/stable/24672...

#Equifinality ⚒️ #philgeo

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)