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Philosophy of science; history & philosophy of biology, medicine & psychology; mental health; clinical research & practice; Washington U St. Louis

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Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship – Department of the History of Medicine The Department of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM), Johns Hopkins University, seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in…

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.

06.03.2026 23:34 👍 25 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 0
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Apply now for the 2026 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship The NC State University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) and Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) are excited to offer the annual Tom Regan Visiting Research Fe

Excellent fellowship opportunity for animal ethics & animal studies scholars.

24.02.2026 23:24 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Jaspers Award | aapp

News from Association for Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry! My student Derek Braverman received the 2026 Karl Jaspers Award for his paper on Addiction! Congratulations Derek!

aapp.press.jhu.edu/jaspers

25.01.2026 23:53 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

as a parent I cannot imagine how absolutely fucking heartbreaking and awful it must be to have to put out a statement like this because the federal government killed your son and is telling monstrous lies about him

25.01.2026 01:05 👍 2121 🔁 512 💬 9 📌 7

#HPS

15.01.2026 03:10 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.

www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

15.01.2026 01:37 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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The meaning of a measure: p as a general measure of psychopathology The variable “p” is characterized as a single dimension of risk for psychopathology. The aim of this paper is to critically assess debates over “p” in the scientific literature, and their larger ph...

Here’s the link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QHSGP...

02.01.2026 21:44 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“The Meaning of a Measure: p as a General Measure of Psychopathology”

Our referees have now considered your paper and have recommended publication in Philosophical Psychology. :)

22.12.2025 17:20 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Home November 19 - 22, 2026

About a month to go to submit a symposium to PSA26! Deadline 15 Jan 2026.

10.12.2025 15:30 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Career Opportunities | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Careers

Postdoc: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) is offering 3-year postdoc for a Historian of Life Sciences at its Center for Humanities & the History of Modern Biology.
#HPS #PhilJobs 🗃️

www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...

09.12.2025 15:45 👍 27 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2
Jaspers Award | aapp

aapp.press.jhu.edu/jaspers?fbcl...

10.11.2025 23:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI and the Nature of Science Bringing together cutting-edge perspectives and helping set an agenda for future research and application

Excited to welcome @lmesseri.bsky.social, @cameronbuckner.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com to campus a week from today for the “AI and the Nature of Science: Concepts and Controversies” event. 14.11.25, 1400 - 1800.

07.11.2025 14:45 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Join us for "How Science is Changing," a free interdisciplinary panel discussion! Scholars from across North America discuss the evolving nature of science.

🗓️ Nov 20th, 6 PM
📍 @cincymuseum.bsky.social w/ @philsci.bsky.social

Free, open to all, parking included! RSVP:
🔗 forms.gle/3Ei7GM91LTmy...

08.11.2025 05:29 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Check out the program in the thread! 🥳

20.10.2025 16:12 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 3
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I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social)

To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

24.09.2025 18:34 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0
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Applying multilevel selection to understand cancer evolution and progression Cancer is a prime example of multilevel selection. At an organismal level, natural selection has led to the evolution of diverse tumor suppression mechanisms, while at a cellular level, it favors trai...

New paper. Thank you Lucie Laplane and co-authors for inviting me to contribute to this paper. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

30.07.2025 04:12 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Texas State University - Cluster Hire: Three Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment | H-Net

3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment at Texas State University 🗃️ #HPS
#histsci #histmed #envhist

networks.h-net.org/jobs/68829/t...

22.07.2025 14:35 👍 24 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 3
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Lecturer in Philosophy: Academic Year 2025-26 (Anticipated) University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

Do you know someone with a PhD in Philosophy who would like to teach in the Central Valley of California this year? We have teaching needs in ethics; "a reasonable estimate for an initial appointment is $70,977". Please share with anyone you think may be interested!

aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02002

14.07.2025 16:48 👍 15 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
Call for Papers: Recent Work in the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences

Oooo Charles Pence & Daniel Swaim are putting together a special issue on the philosophy of the historical sciences (and you can publish in French!).

pencelab.be/en/events/rp...

#philsci

09.07.2025 08:07 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100 This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.

New publication: “Trade-offs and Progress in Cancer Science”, open access here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Thank you to Adrian Currie for the feedback, and to Frigg and Worrall for their invitation to contribute. (This was the Lakatos lecture.)

10.07.2025 21:54 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Are you a philosopher of mind? Would you like to work at the U of Vienna? Well then, here is a job for you. #philosophy #psychology #cognitivescience

berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

01.07.2025 10:17 👍 25 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

30.06.2025 23:30 👍 1306 🔁 514 💬 69 📌 62

Sending love and peace.

13.05.2025 05:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Audience Faves: Hasok Chang on 'Epistemic Iteration' The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

Great interview with Hasok Chang on 'Epistemic Iteration':

The idea that we don't often start scientific inquiries from a solid foundation. We knowingly start from an imperfect position, and use the outcomes to refine and correct the original starting point.

open.spotify.com/episode/6tbT...

09.05.2025 15:02 👍 50 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3

“Only the callow and obdurately scientific believe that data speak for themselves; they should be sentenced for their heresy to six months in a research laboratory or six weeks in a courtroom.” (Smith, et. al. (1980) The Benefits of Psychotherapy, p. 181)

09.05.2025 12:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

19.04.2025 03:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just a stray! :)

07.04.2025 20:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cousin gray cat Walter sends his greetings

06.04.2025 10:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Philosophy of Science Association

I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end

01.03.2025 17:50 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Philosophy at Guelph is hiring in Ethics/ Applied Ethics.

Please share widely.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

10.02.2025 05:45 👍 18 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0