Proud that our book “African Philosophy and the Politics of Food Systems” is out & Open Access. It’s a collective effort of showing that African philosophy is more than an academic subfield but of central importance for shaping futures on the continent. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
My new paper is out!
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Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process.
#philsci #racism #health
We are organising a pre-conference workshop on Values in science in the rest of the world in Helsinki in August, just before ENPOSS 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract!
Poster for the 12th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, entitled "Diversity in Motion: New Challenges across the Sciences" For more information on speakers and program, see: rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity
12th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Science is coming up!
Topic: Diversity in Motion - New Challenges across the Sciences
Date: March 26-27, 2026
Location: Bochum, Germany and online
Registration (free for all!): rotoworkshop2026.wixsite.com/diversity
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci
ABSTRACT. Although the urgency of our present environmental crises is not in doubt, claims that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction are highly controversial. Our aims here are, first, to shed philosophical light on this scientific debate—the many conceptual and methodological challenges involved in answering this scientific question—and, second, to offer new perspectives on what the value of asking this question has been, and if that value persists. We argue that a straightforward answer to the question of whether we are experiencing a mass extinction is undermined by the challenges in defining ‘mass extinction’, uncertainties in past and present diversity assessments, and data incommensurabilities. Further, an excessive focus on the mass extinction framing can be unhelpful to conservation efforts, leading us to miss out on the many other valuable insights that Earth’s deep time can offer in guiding our future.
From the latest issue:
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking
– Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre & Aja Watkins
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Our Perspectives on Science Seminar schedule for Spring 2026 is here. All are warmly welcome! #philsci #philsky
Después de trabajar por cinco años en seminario escribimos este artículo a 22 manos. La autoría múltiple es difícil y debería ser más valorada: se aprende de los otros, del proceso, de las propias virtudes y limitaciones. Acá el resultado 🙂
critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr...
Critica, the Latin American journal of philosophy, is seeking submissions to a special issue on social epistemology! For anyone interested in contributing, check out the details here:
My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
Join our KLI Colloquium:
"O Theory Where Art Thou? The Changing Role of Theory in Theoretical Biology in the 20th Century and Beyond"
Speaker: Jan BAEDKE (Ruhr University Bochum)
🕒 26 Jan 2026, 3:00 PM CET
🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)
Matthew J. Brown: "What is Pragmatist About the New 'Pragmatist' Philosophy of Science?" Philosophical pragmatism has been enjoying a renaissance in philosophy of science. Brown will bring this recent work into conversation with classical pragmatism to explore the question: What makes a philosophy of science pragmatist? The recent work is in some respects more faithful to the classical pragmatist tradition than earlier appropriations of i pragmatism, but it also differs in emphasis in ways that are problematic. Brown does not argue that there is some single, essential character of philosophical pragmatism, nor does he try to sort the “true pragmatists” from the pretenders. Rather, he attempts to articulate the value of the new pragmatist philosophy of science while also indicating valuable resources from the pragmatist tradition that have yet to receive their proper due, particularly concerning the interplay of science and values. Matthew J. Brown is the Jo Ann and Donald N. Boydston Chair of American Philosophy and Director of the Center for Dewey Studies at SIU. His research areas include the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy and the history and philosophy of science. He is the author of Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science (2020) and is currently editor-in-chief of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
Now on YouTube! See Matthew J. Brown’s lunchtime talk, “What is Pragmatist About the New ‘Pragmatist’ Philosophy of Science?”
Link to Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_KQ...
Link to Center for Dewey Studies YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/@DeweyCenter
Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.
Poster for the talk by Libby O'Neil, entitled "The Organism and the System: Boundary Crossings in 20th Century Science". It will take place on Monday, 19 January 2026, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.
For the first lecture in 2026, we welcome Libby O'Neil (Mississippi State University) in our ROTO Lecture Series. In her talk next Monday, Libby will speak about boundary crossings in 20th century science. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #HistSci
🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀
#Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal
We wanted to make diverse radical versions of social medicine from the global south available to health workers, including those in the US - just as partisan politics is suppressing even conventional social medicine! Bad timing - but that may change...
No olviden que esta convocatoria cierra el 15 de enero
¡¡manden sus propuestas!!
¡¡nos vemos en Perú!!
ISHPSSB 2027 will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3rd week July. #HPS
ishpssb.org/meetings
We are very excited! Jan Baedke received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant for his project “Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria”, linking the history of local plant knowers with current digitation trends & biodiversity issues.
#ERCCoG #HPS #PhilSci #HPBio
Applications open for Ischia Summer School!
Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS
ischiasummerschool.org
El próximo miércoles (3 de diciembre) tendremos el gusto y el honor de recibir a Federico Burdman en el seminario de investigadores del IIfs Unam.
¡¡Vengan a escuchar y a conversar que va a estar muy buena la sesión!!
You can still register for the hybrid talk in our Lecture Series today: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
See your at 6pm (CET) at RUB or in zoom 🤗
#PhilSci
Looking forward to giving a talk at the HUGERA Lecture Series next Tuesday as part of @celsoneto.bsky.social amazing research project. #philsci #philbio
🟡Just Out!
New Thematic Cluster Introduction “The making of methodologies/methodologies of making. When precarity matters” 💭𓁉
By Andrea Botero & Tania Pérez-Bustos
🏺Free read at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
MethodologiesOfMaking #LatinAmericanStudies #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
Deadline for paper or session proposals has been extended to 15 December 2025 for Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Conference 15–17 July 2026 at
Department of History & Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
spsp2026.philosophy-science-practice.org/openconf
Poster for the talk by Chris Shambaugh, entitled "What is Dialectical Biology?". It will take place on Monday, 24 November 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.
Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
The Center is now accepting applications for our 10th annual Pittsburgh Summer Program aimed at promoting Philosophy of Science to undergraduate students!
Read more about the program and learn how to apply using the below link:
https://ow.ly/ijEk50UbWnh
#PhilosophyOfScience #PSP
“How science is changing”
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
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Hello all! The PSA DEI Caucus is coming to BlueSky! Hoping to share news about our wonderful membership and our @philsci.bsky.social community at large! Doggo Pic for attention. #philosophy #hps #dei
Screenshot of the title and abstract of "The epistemic superiority of experiment to simulation" by Sherrilyn Roush
Next Monday, we'll have our first reading group session in this semester. We'll discuss "The epistemic superiority of experiment to simulation" by Sherrilyn Roush: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Wanna join the discussion at 4pm CET? Just write an e-mail to jan.baedke[at]rub.de!
#HPBio #PhilSci
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FILOSÓFICAS - UNAM WORKSHOPnine METHODOLOGIES for the use of history IN PHILOSOPHY NOVEMBER 13-14, 2025 KIRSTEN WALSH CUNIVERSITY OF EXETER) JOUNI-MATTI KUUKKANEN CUNIVERSITY OF OULU) ANNA GADIGNANI MARIA CHIARA PARISI EVELYN ERICKSON ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ-QUIJANO JANIK ROJAS ZAINAB SABRA BOBBY VOS NATALIA ZORRILLA DUBIAN CAÑAS MARÍA MARTÍNEZ-ORDAZ +info: methodologiesfortheuseofhistor@gmail.com
![November 14, 2025
• [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective."
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
• [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut)
• |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
• [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)
• [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas.
• |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30
MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work?
Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions"
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreif7tjcqxyhw6ivn6cvhv7vysub34sgjn2irva263g2z6wtmhgpsbe@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 • [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective." Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu) • [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948" Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut) • |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK • [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge) • [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive" Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University) • [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK • [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas. • |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30 MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work? Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions" María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz
![November 13, 2025
• [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
• 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison"
Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
• 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic"
Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
• [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreibbyykhaegpswhv3pjthrdrrivitxwqrnidv4ofitkoi43qyhey5m@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 • [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England) • 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy) • [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK • [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison" Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL) • 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic" Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) • [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK • [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM) • [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective" Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)
Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
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