Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social)

@alejandrofabregastejeda.com Oct 9, 2026, 2:52 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

Last week, my dear colleague Guido I. Prieto gave a talk on our joint work on model organisms & scientific representation.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUG...

For those interested, I’ve linked the 📃s below 👇

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsci #HPbio 🧪

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:06 AMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

The KU Leuven AI Safety Lab studies the large-scale risks of #AI, from the concentration of power in the companies that build it to the loss of democratic control over its development: www.aisafetylab.eu

📢 You can apply for paid residencies atm 👇 www.aisafetylab.eu/open-calls/

#philsci #philsky 🧪

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:06 AM

The KU Leuven AI Safety Lab studies the large-scale risks of #AI, from the concentration of power in the companies that build it to the loss of democratic control over its development: www.aisafetylab.eu

📢 You can apply for paid residencies atm 👇 www.aisafetylab.eu/open-calls/

#philsci #philsky 🧪

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:20 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

This Friday, we continue with our new batch of seminars for the new academic year! Atahan Erbas, one of the organizers of our Brown Bag Seminar, will talk about how Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams can interact. Join us!

📆 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#logic #philsky #PhDsky #philsci

Screenshot of a KU Leuven CLPS event page announcing a Brown Bag Seminar by Atahan Erbas titled “An interaction between Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams.” The seminar is scheduled for October 09, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM in room HIW1-01.20, organized by Atahan Erbas and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda.

Abstract
In this article, we examine the relationship between Aristotelian diagrams (ADs) and truth diagrams (TDs). First, after providing broader definitions for ADs and TDs, we propose a translation between them. Second, we show that by converting an AD to a TD, the maximal and minimal Boolean complexity of the AD can be calculated. Third, by converting a TD to an AD, we show that the well-formed formula represented by the TD and some immediate inferences between the formulas represented by the TD can be found. In addition, we demonstrate that the translation of TDs to ADs allows us to characterize new (sub-)subtypes of Aristotelian diagrams. Finally, we interpret the interaction between AD and TD within the framework of the philosophy of mathematical and logical practice literature. In the literature, using a diagram to prove a property of its target domain is called diagrammatic proof. Proofs made with TDs and ADs stand out as diagrammatic proofs about diagrams themselves.

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:20 PM

This Friday, we continue with our new batch of seminars for the new academic year! Atahan Erbas, one of the organizers of our Brown Bag Seminar, will talk about how Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams can interact. Join us!

📆 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#logic #philsky #PhDsky #philsci

@alejandrofabregastejeda.com Oct 6, 2026, 11:34 AMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

I am really happy to share that I have started as PI of an @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social-funded 3-year project @clpskuleuven.bsky.social. I'll investigate how scientists conceptualize, model & measure environments across the life, cognitive, social & Earth sciences! #philsci #philsky #evosky #envhum 🧪

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:22 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

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

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:31 PM

#philsci #philsky #academicsky 🧪

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:22 PM

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

@theramseylab.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:27 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

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 🧪

Promotional black-and-white image announcing the publication of an article in The Journal of Philosophy. The text displays the journal title, the article title "Much Ado About ‘N'othing," and the author’s name, Grant Ramsey, in a minimalist layout.

@theramseylab.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:25 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

Are you interested in the past, present & future of Artificial Life (ALife) as a scientific field?

🚨 We are hosting an interdisciplinary minisymposium this December, so send us your work & come along! Please share widely!

🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#philsci #academicsky #evobio #AI #HPS

Promotional graphic for a mini-symposium titled “Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Life,” taking place 7–8 December 2026 at Aula Symbiosis, BioScience Center, KU Leuven. The text appears over a blue-and-orange honeycomb-like cellular pattern.

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 11:22 AMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

Don't forget to submit your work to this upcoming conference on philosophy #textbooks @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! The deadline is next week 🚨: October 2, 2026 📅📃

Call for papers: hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#philsky #academicsky #EduSky #HPS #BookSky #didactics

@sylviawenmackers.be Sep 22, 2026, 9:03 AMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

Earlier this year, Alicja Kwade had a magnificent solo-exhibition in museum M Leuven. In the catalogue, I compare her sculptures with scientific models: "In the sway of a simple model; A philosophical reflection on Alicja Kwade’s pendulum". Pdf: www.sylviawenmackers.be/documents/We... #Art #PhilSci

Exhibition catalogue of Alicja Kwade, called Dusty Die. The cover shows a white door.

Double-page photo of ParaPosition, in which a heavy rock balances above a chair. The wall in the background shows a photo of gray clouds; a real window shows the inner garden.

Fragment of my chapter. Scientists usually think and communicate about fictional systems by means of equations and specific names, such as the ‘simple pendulum’, ‘frictionless plane’ or ‘ideal gas’. In doing so, they simulate these abstract model systems mentally. At best, they leave behind cryptic squiggles on a blackboard. In Kwade’s work we encounter similar conceptual abstractions, but she renders them as physical, material objects. She presents us with massive rocks that appear to defy gravity in works like Superheavy Skies and ParaPosition, which make tangible the kind of configurations that scientists only imagine.
It’s like Kwade read Godfrey-Smith’s concept of scientific models as ‘imagined concrete systems’ that ‘would be concrete if real’ (or ‘fictional concreta’) and called his bluff. As if Kwade decided: let’s make them real, then!

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:20 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

Sports medicine raises normative/ethical & socioeconomic questions for philosophers to grapple with. Check out the new 📃 by Silvia Camporesi, @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & Mike McNamee on the philosophy of sports #medicine 👇

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

#philsky #HPS #HPBio #SportsScience 🧪

Book cover of Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, Second Edition, edited by Thomas Schramme and Mary Jean Walker, published by Springer Nature.

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 11:22 AM

Don't forget to submit your work to this upcoming conference on philosophy #textbooks @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! The deadline is next week 🚨: October 2, 2026 📅📃

Call for papers: hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#philsky #academicsky #EduSky #HPS #BookSky #didactics

@clpskuleuven.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:20 PM

Sports medicine raises normative/ethical & socioeconomic questions for philosophers to grapple with. Check out the new 📃 by Silvia Camporesi, @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & Mike McNamee on the philosophy of sports #medicine 👇

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

#philsky #HPS #HPBio #SportsScience 🧪

@alejandrofabregastejeda.com Sep 14, 2026, 2:58 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

My 📗 is #openaccess thanks to the D2O program of @mitpress.bsky.social: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... This initiative for equitable access to scholarship has just opened its new funding cycle: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres... 🙏 help spread the word & if you represent a library, do consider joining!

Promotional image of the Direct to Open (D2O) initiative of the MIT Press that allows academic books to be read open access.

Promotional graphic on a beige background for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press, 2026) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The book cover appears in the center of the image and has a green gradient background. The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis).

@sylviawenmackers.be Sep 19, 2026, 5:10 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

Column voor Eos: Dat mag niet!
Over de Doomsday-formule, delen door nul en extrapolaties. www.sylviawenmackers.be/blog/2026091...

Foto van de column, met citaat: "Ik kwam erachter dat sommige wetenschappers het nog steeds proberen: delen door nul". Link naar volledige tekst staat in de skeet.

@vschpc.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 7:29 AMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

🔬 RESEARCH SHOWCASE | Is scientific research really becoming less disruptive?
VUB & KU Leuven researchers uncovered how missing citation data exaggerated the reported decline, using VSC high-memory computing to analyse millions of papers.
👉 www.vscentrum.be/post/a-hidde...
#HPC #Research

@andrameneganzin.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 3:52 PMReposted by @clpskuleuven.bsky.social

Goodbye @theramseylab.bsky.social & @clpskuleuven.bsky.social … it’s been an absolute blast! ❤️🥹

Catching my next train (both physical and metaphorical) with a deep sense of gratitude.

Thank y'all!

#philbio #philsky #hpbio #evosky #paleosky