Congratulations to John Norton for winning the 2026 Lakatos Award!
I will admit that I have not read the two volumes, but his 2003 paper on the Material Theory of Induction is already a classic that I really like and cite regularly.
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Postdoc in history of physics @ Radboud University in The Netherlands on "Origins of Irreversibility" part of larger grant to explore fundamental questions concerning entropy, chaos, & irreversibility #HPS ⚛️
Deadline: 14 October 2026
Duration: 2 years, starting 2027
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

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🏁 FULLTIME — HPS 1–1 PEPO. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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GOAL! 80' — M. Niskanen scores for HPS. HPS 1–1 PEPO. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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GOAL! 73' — PEPO. HPS 0–2 PEPO. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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GOAL! 49' — O. Turppo scores for PEPO. HPS 0–1 PEPO. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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⚽ SECOND_HALF — HPS 0–0 PEPO. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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⏸️ HALFTIME — HPS 0–0 PEPO. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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⚽ KICKOFF — HPS 0–0 PEPO. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, I follow up on an earlier look at Sveinn Jóhannesson's new book on the influence of French military science in US history, asking him about how he landed on this subject and how the history of the state led him into the history of science & technology. #HPS

Two Madrid mathematicians adverse to the use of AI on their way now to the Fields medal (the equivalent of the Nobel prize for maths):

Clay Institute Won't Call Navier-Stokes Solved by OpenAI:
www.implicator.ai/clay-institu...

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It seems to be a flawed kind of Baconianism (as people in the 17thC imagined machines might manage). As Philip says in the thread, it would be good if some historians and philosophers of science were brought into such initiatives and discussions. #hps #histSTM

🏁 FULLTIME — HPS 1–4 PPJ. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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GOAL! 77' — R. Ouazine scores for PPJ. HPS 1–4 PPJ. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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GOAL! 69' — F. Carlberg scores for PPJ. HPS 1–4 PPJ. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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GOAL! 60' — P. Puttonen scores for PPJ. HPS 1–3 PPJ. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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GOAL! 69' — PPJ. HPS 1–3 PPJ. Kakkonen - Lohko A

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Interesting 📰 @theguardian.com by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social on non-neural cognition: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Confronted with this polarizing debate, @philosobio.bsky.social & I wrote a balanced take on basal #cognition from an #evobio lens 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPS