"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
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Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture βEpistemology and the History of the Sciencesβ.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The University of Vienna is advertising a number of fully funded PhD positions in the Humanities (4 years), including in Philosophy. If you are interested or know any philosophy MA student who would be interested, please tell them to get in touch! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
Congratulations!
@miguelohn.bsky.social
βThe Meaning of a Measure: p as a General Measure of Psychopathologyβ
Our referees have now considered your paper and have recommended publication in Philosophical Psychology. :)
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
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Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027!
The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
A brilliant presentation on history of photography in astronomy, and the blurring of the analog / digital divide, by @carljoseph.bsky.social
Winner of Langham prize at this years @aahpsss.bsky.social conference
Highly recommend
#hps #histsci #scicomm
Delighted to announce a roundtable discussion of my book Reconsidering Historical Epistemology
ποΈ Feb 2, 2026
π Athens (NKUA)
Truly honoured - and excited - to have such outstanding scholars engaging with my work.
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The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference was great. Many thanks to our organisers, wonderful keynotes & big, diverse cohort of participants and ideas. And I'm very grateful to those who stopped to chat with me about how I'm thinking through case studies in psychology
Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.
π metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
π° AU$200
π« + travel subsidies
βΉοΈ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
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My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
Join us!
My department (philosophy, University of Melbourne) is advertising a 4-yr fixed-term lectureship in metaphysics and philosophy of science. Open to people with Australian work rights. Philosophy folk, please feel free to repost etc unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Good to see this by @cristianlarph.bsky.social published. The Stevens prohibition against averages from ordinal scales is hereby lifted. Albeit only when you have evidence that your scale is not purely ordinal #philsi #metascience #measurement
Congrats to the team!
π 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful
We're proudly graduate-runβ & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our communityβs questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
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@tespiteri.bsky.social wrote a review of my book!
#&HPS, #Psychology
Iβve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled βValues and Measurementβ forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science.
Itβs an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices.
Comments welcome!
philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2
βExtinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe.β
Lorraine Daston reads ππ’π―πͺπ΄π©π¦π₯: ππ― ππ―π―π’π΅πΆπ³π’π ππͺπ΄π΅π°π³πΊ π°π§ ππΉπ΅πͺπ―π€π΅πͺπ°π―by Sadiah Qureshi.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pleasure!
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!ποΈ
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisitΒ Leviathan and the Air-PumpΒ 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
Become a Visiting Fellow!
Interested in joining the Center for Philosophy of Science? Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows! Postdoc applications will be available soon!
More info about our programs available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/
Uljana Feestβs 'Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration' provides a rigorous and insightful analysis of psychological research. This important contribution is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy and history of science. Iβve jotted dow some brief reflections below
Unexpectedly, there's an 'education focused' job in HPS at Sydney! At snr lecturer/assoc prof level, which means associate professor in US terms. You'll need to scan down below ruminant science etc to see it, though (perhaps a message there?):
#STS #bioethics #histstm #histsci #histmed
I wrote a short piece for the @philmemopalace.bsky.social
#memory #philpsy #&HPS
"In the 1930s, the British Association for the Advancement of Science established the Ferguson Committee to investigate the possibility of psychological attributes being measured scientifically. In its Final Report (Ferguson, et al., 1940), Campbell and the Committee concluded
