In Referees We Trust? How #PeerReview Became a Mark of Scientific Legitimacy by @mbaldwin.bsky.social: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... #OpenAccess #HPS #histsci

I'm now at work on another paper on the Neo-Kantian background to Henry Margenau's philosophy of science, and how it is indebted to Cassirer's and the neo-Kantians' approach to causation in quantum mechanics.

Watch the space!

#philsci #hps #sts #metascience #histsci #philsky

Very proud to announce that my ancient manuscript on Henry Margenau is finally appearing in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta

A preprint is already up at @philsci-archive.bsky.social

#philsci #hps #sts #metascience #histsci #philsky

Calling #ALife researchers & philosophers🚨

There’s still a little over a week left to submit your abstract for the interdisciplinary minisymposium we’re organizing in December. Please help us spread the word & reach anyone who might be interested!

👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#philsci #HPS 🧪

On Thursday, we'll have the first lecture of the semester in our Colloquium of History & Philosophy of Science: Michael Bennett McNulty will talk about Minnesota Realism, a neglegted variant of Logical Empiricism.
Come around at 6pm, room GA 1/128 (!) and join us for dinner afterwards 🤗
#HPS

Edith Stein did her dissertation about empathy with Husserl at the Univ. of Freiburg and was his assistant for a brief while. Her subsequent habilitation (about psychology and Geisteswissenschaften) was rejected by the Univ. of Göttingen. The Nazis murdered her in 1942.
#HOPOS #HPS #phenomenology

Post-Gettier #epistemology may have yielded a picture of #knowledge that is both historiographically & philosophically misleading—or so Maria Rosa Antognazza argued in her posthumous book. Check out postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman’s review of the📘! 👇 philarchive.org/rec/SCHHIL-3

#philsky #HPS

The submission deadline for the International Society for the History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) 2027 conference in Argentina has been extended to *October 29th, 2026*
#HPS #STS #HPBio #EvoBio
congressin.com/e/ishpssb202...

Day two of the fun and stimulating workshop in interactions between American philosophy and psychology. With great talks by @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social, Alex Klein, and Matthias Neuber
#HOPOS #HPS

Call for Papers: 2027 Congress for Logic, Methodology, & Philosophy of Science & Technology (CLMPST) in Kobe, Japan 🇯🇵, August 23-28, 2027
Deadline: November 15, 2026
#HPS
clmpst2027.org/call-for-pap...

Looks like a fantastic lineup & workshop! #HPS

Five new Darwin books: thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/f...

#HPS #histsci

@princetonupress.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

It's rather wonderful to be back at Harvard (as a visiting scholar this term) where I spent so much time 15-20 years ago. We both have aged and are wiser (and look more upmarket), but the intellectual excitement and inspiration remains the same.

#philsci #hps #sts #metascience #histscie #philsky

The @mcps-philsci.bsky.social post-doctoral fellows program is continuing into the future and is currently accepting applications for a 2-year fellowship starting Fall 2027! Interested recent or impending PhDs in #PhilSci, #HPS and #HOPOS, please apply!

cla.umn.edu/mcps/news-ev...

historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social & crystallographer Brian Sutton argue Franklin knew earlier photo revealed a helix—the epiphany Watson claimed for himself—&..why she made a 2nd photo 51..Franklin “knows exactly what’s in front of her,” says Betty Smocovitis..this analysis “adds justice" #HPS

Professor Hans Pols will give the 2026 AAHPSSS Dyason Lecture: "Medicine without Physicians: Do-it-Yourself Doctoring in the Dutch East Indies"

Mon 2nd November at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, and also streamed online - register via link below
#HPS #STS #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth

What makes #mathematics explanatory in science? Philosophers have debated this question extensively. @clpskuleuven.bsky.social alum Lars Arthur Tump offers a fresh perspective in his 📘, bringing together indispensability, abstraction principles & number theory👇 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #HPS

It is widely held that fitness is affected by population size, 'n.' But Grant Ramsey shows, in a new #openaccess paper in @jrnlofphil.bsky.social, that this familiar claim rests on both mathematical and conceptual mistakes.🔥

👇📃 doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

#philsci #HPbio #evobio #philsky #HPS 🧪

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, we look at a new volume on the long history of efforts to measure the effects of general relativity. It showcases extraordinary efforts to secure high-precision measurements and adds to our understanding of GR's acceptance, neglect, and renaissance. #HPS

New paper on why we we are still so limited in predicting cancer risk. By @sergeishevchenko.bsky.social
#hps #philsci #hpbio