Ken Aizawa
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Historian and Philosopher of Science. Ask me about my non-Bayesian theory of confirmation. 😬
Yes, that is exactly what I looked like six years ago.
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Centre for Philosophy of Time
13 days ago
📣 CFP Extended Deadline (Feb 15, 2026) 🔷 SMS 2026 will take place May 25–27 at the University of Toronto. 💠Keynote: Heather Demarest 💠Presidential Address: Giuliano Torrengo ➡️Submissions welcome on all areas of metaphysics of science. More info:
socmetsci.org
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
15 days ago
We took a look at the seats available opening night and weekend of the 'Melania' documentary. It's on track to be an absolute box office flop.
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Bruce Springsteen
14 days ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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SPAN
28 days ago
🧠 CALL FOR SYMPOSIA ABSTRACTS 🌴 SPAN is now accepting abstracts for a special session at the PSA. Put a group and a topic together and submit your idea via email by March 1st 🥳
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Edouard Machery
about 1 month ago
The Barcelona Principles propose some simple actions to create a less unequal play field between native speakers and non native speakers of English in philosophy. First among them: reviewers should not assess papers based on style.
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BARCELONA PRINCIPLES FOR A GLOBALLY INCLUSIVE PHILOSOPHY
We acknowledge that English is the common vehicular language of much contemporary philosophy, especially in the tradition of so-called “analytic” or “Anglo-American” philosophy. This tradition is i…
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Kenneth Aizawa, "Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/compositional-abduction-and-scientific-interpretation
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Dom Ervolina
about 1 month ago
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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André "Normal" Alessi
about 1 month ago
It's shaping up to be a great day. It's sunny as heck, my parents are on their way to tackle the garden, I'm at the farmers market grabbing coffee and treats, and an episode of New Books in Philosophy on
@kenaizawa.bsky.social
's new book just dropped. Heck yeah.
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Kenneth Aizawa, "Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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David Barack
about 1 month ago
Hey philosophers—going to the Eastern APA? Check out the special
#SPAN
session on Thursday at 11a! Featuring
@kenaizawa.bsky.social
@felipedebrigard.bsky.social
@johnwkrakauer.bsky.social
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Vandalizing the arts center to show you support the arts is a form of derangement syndrome.
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It is out in hard copy!
#philsci
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Julie Cohen ❌👑
2 months ago
Meet some of the superstars of
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Next semester I will doing a tour of the UK: Edinburgh March 4 Durham March 5 Leeds March 6 Bristol March 11 Talk titles TBA There are still slots available. 😬 I would to tell you about compositional abduction.
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Come on, Amazon.
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Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach , Aizawa, Kenneth - Amazon.com
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach - Kindle edition by Aizawa, Kenneth. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features ...
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My blurb about the book for the Cambridge University Press blog.
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The Scientific Interpretation of Experimental Results
How do scientists interpret the results of an experiment? How do they draw conclusions from experiments? In January of 1939, the young Alan Hodgkin decided to break in some new lab equipment and he ha...
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Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/compositional-abduction-and-scientific-interpretation/5295E3347B5287EC137752BABC337AC7
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Uljana Feest
3 months ago
I will be one of the speakers at next year's meeting of the European Network for the Philosophy of Social Sciences. Consider sbmitting something (by March 1).
#ENPOSS
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Lucia C. Neco (Luba)
3 months ago
Have you registered for
#AAHPSSS2025
yet? The conference will be held in hybrid format at the University of Queensland, 3–5 December 2025. It’s a small community, which makes it a great opportunity for really good feedback and collaboration.
#HPS
#philsky
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2025 Conference
2025 AAHPSSS Conference The 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Universit…
https://aahpsss.net.au/conference/2025-aahpsss-conference/
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Frances Egan
3 months ago
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
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Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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Mikie Sherrill
3 months ago
New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor. I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
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Edouard Machery
3 months ago
Listen to the whole speech. This is history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ys...
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LIVE: Zohran Mamdani delivers victory speech in New York City
YouTube video by ABC News
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Brad Lander
3 months ago
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.
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Phil Lewis
4 months ago
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
4 months ago
If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx. The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake. And that’s why we’re fighting back.
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Mark Bray
4 months ago
Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
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Prem Thakker ツ
4 months ago
I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
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John Pfaff
4 months ago
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Edouard Machery
4 months ago
The enemies of freedom
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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/rutgers-professor-turning-point-usa
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Alex Baumhardt
4 months ago
She’s still out here ✌️
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I did pull myself away from the great views to hear some great talks at the Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Conference. And I hear that 20th Century philosophy of science really screwed neuroscience.
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Acyn
5 months ago
CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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James Fallows
5 months ago
Look at photos of US troops in Fallujah. (eg here:
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) They're armed like these ICE agents in Chicago. But none of them are wearing the cowardly face masks of today's ICE thugs. Like the one throwing a young, female Congressional candidate to the ground.
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
5 months ago
One group calling for Jimmy Kimmel's ouster is Sinclair media. Even if you don't pay attention to media conglomerates, you probably remember Sinclair for this:
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New Jerseyans react to Jack Ciattarelli's swearing ban.
YouTube video by everythingincrisis
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Alisa Bokulich
5 months ago
Ann Johnson Institute Writing Retreat for
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scholars, 6-12 July 2026 at Ampersand Inn, Newton New Jersey. Theme is "Context of Discovery in Science & Technology", and the objective is project completion. 10 scholars will be selected. Applications due 17 November 2025
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The Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology and Society - McCausland College of Arts and Sciences | University of South Carolina
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/centers_and_institutes/aji/
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Alejandra Caraballo
5 months ago
Before the Nazis engaged in mass murder of Jews, they did mass murder of people with mental illness and disabilities.
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Thank goodness. New Jersey Is the Latest State to Expand Access to Updated Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...
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New Jersey Is the Latest State to Expand Access to Updated Covid Shots
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyregion/new-jersey-covid-vaccine-pharmacies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Brian Tyler Cohen
5 months ago
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This is why you don’t negotiate with Trump. Mexico’s President Struggles to Escape Trump’s Growing Demands
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/w...
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Mexico’s President Struggles to Escape Trump’s Growing Demands
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/world/americas/mexico-us-trump-sheinbaum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Coercive citation. Figures there would be a word for it and that I would not know it.
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Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work
Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁
6 months ago
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
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Kate Starbird
6 months ago
“Political movements … require trust. … When adult children discover their parents have been drained by political fundraising operations using tactics reminiscent of common internet scams—but bearing the brand of the Democratic Party itself—the damage extends far beyond the financial.”
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Alan Richardson
6 months ago
Solidarity with our colleagues at Dal!
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Happy birthday! You and Obama. Wish me happy birthday tomorrow. 😬
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Senator Andy Kim
7 months ago
Over the course of 100 years, quantum mechanics has transformed from evolving theories into the kind of advancements and innovations that change lives. 1/3
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Rebekah Higgitt
7 months ago
I gather that the next International Congress for the History of Science & Technology, 2029 will be in Paris, returning to where it started 100 years earlier!
#ICHST
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Paris is magnificent.
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