My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

🚨 Our Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Computer Simulations in Science is now live. It was a lot of work but I’m proud of this substantial update. I hope it helps those in #philsci interested in the philosophical implications of computational methods. plato.stanford.edu/entries/simu...

New #philsci #philsky paper on #ML and #scientificmodelling! link.springer.com/article/10.1... “Machine learning and theory-ladenness: a phenomenological account” We revisit a widespread assumption in #philsci that modelling practices are inevitably shaped by domain-theoretical knowledge 1/4

Two-year postdoc position at Bristol on the Leverhulme-funded Foundations of Longtermism project. If there’s someone you know working in moral philosophy, decision theory, or formal epistemology more broadly who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply.

🚀Publication alert! How have our conversations about #AIethics in healthcare changed? Where are they headed? Excited to share my paper in BMC #MedicalEthics: “Ethical and social considerations of applying artificial intelligence in healthcare- a two-pronged scoping review” doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Reviewer: "what about x, eh? The author does not consider it, checkmate! Oh, I'm so smart, you are so dumb" : rejection. But there is a 4-page section explicitly discussing x. #coolrejections #philsky #philsci #peronirotte

In an open access article in American Philosophical Quarterly 62.1, @emratti.bsky.social & Mark Graves ( @aiandfaith.bsky.social ) conceptualizes AI ethics via the capability approach, to help clarify and guide the ethical considerations of AI design. buff.ly/42YlLHs

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Here is the Turing centenary conference we organized at BU's Center for Philosophy & History of Science when I was director: www.bu.edu/cphs/colloqu... & the Boston Studies volume Juliet & I edited from conference referenced below: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #philsky #HPS 🏳️‍🌈

Happy to share with you the final result of two years of work (with Giuseppe D'Agostino) at the intersection between #PhilSci and #Bioinformatics and recently accepted on Perspectives on Science. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24609/ (thread below) 1/5

New paper in American Philosophical Quarterly: A Capability Approach to AI Ethics. We propose a conceptualization of #AIEthics via the capability approach, and show the significant theoretical and concrete benefits of using this approach #PhilTech scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...

Back to the office today at Politecnico, and I had a nice parcel waiting for me – the new Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods, with my and @emratti.bsky.social chapter on big data for causal inference and competing views on quantity and quality of data. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Just read in a philosopher's book: "In shifting gears on my boat..." - I wish I was an academic 50 years ago #academicsky #philsky

JOB ALERT! 3-years position in Bristol, epistemology and philosophy of AI #philsky #philsci #philtech

JOB ALERT! Lecturer, 3-years position, Department of Philosophy, UBristol! Teaching position with research time. Must be able to teach Epistemology and Philosophy of AI in particular. Ability to teach Philosophy of Science is a plus #philsky #philsci #philtech philjobs.org/job/show/26130

Evelyn Fox Keller was born OTD in 1936. “There is no magic lens that will enable us to look at, to see nature unclouded … uncolored by any values, hopes, fears, anxieties, desires, goals that we bring to it." #philsci #histsci #Complexity #STS #WomeninSTEM #Feministsky

MORE JOBS! Two postdoctoral positions opened up in my Open Science team: 20 months each, start Jan 2025, deadline for applications: May 6. One focused on science policy, the other on inequity in research. Details: [1] portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...; [2] portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens... #philsci

When you ask the editor what happened with that paper you have submitted 15 months ago

Excited to share that my symposium "Machine learning in science beyond opacity" has been accepted at #PSA24 ! It has been organized with Alessandro Facchini and Alberto Termine (IDSIA Lugano) Juan Durán (Delft), Anais Rameau (Weill Cornell Medicine), Jan-Willem Romeijn and Hanna van Loo (Groningen)

A thread: new publication in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics! Read this article if you want to integrate moral and political philosophy in #aiethics modules #philtech #philai #philsky 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I guess it only makes sense that I received my copies of the book the same day of a scheduled blood donation, so I can think about the book in the hospital that looks over my favourite building in Milan (Torre Velasca).

3-year postdoc position at University of Bristol to work with me on my Foundations of Longtermism project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust! The project will run September 2024 - August 2027. It will focus on the decision-theoretic and ethical foundations for longtermist arguments.

New paper in the EJPS with Federica Russo! The science and values literature largely pays attention to how values influence science; here we show, with examples from medicine and AI, how scientific concepts and methods too can promote some values rather than others link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When you get R&R after revising a paper #academia #philsci #philsky

What qualities make a good scientist, according to scientists? In our latest paper in @historyofscience.bsky.social (with Kim Hajek and Herman Paul), we explore how postwar American historians, psychologists, and physicists responded to this question. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Has anyone traced how the move towards rigorization of geometry and real analysis in the 19th century, and the movement away from appeals to geometric intuition, parallels the move towards objectivity in science that Daston and Galison describe? #philsky #histsky #histsci #philsci

The Humanities Department at MacEwan University (in which department I happen to work) is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science. Details here: www.macewan.ca/about-macewa...

My dept is hiring an Assistant Professor in Research Integrity and Philosophy of Science / Ethics. Please share widely with anyone who may be interested. Apply until Dec. 3, 2023. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. workingat.vu.nl/ad/assistant...

When in the editorial manager the status of your paper changes to "Decision in process" #AcademicSky

Job alert! 30 months lecturer position in the department of philosophy at the University of Bristol. Teaching aoc in phil mind (AI included) and phil medicine. #philsky #philsci www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDW575/l...

Just moved here! Thanks @alisabokulich.bsky.social ! I'm a Lecturer at the University of Bristol, interested in the relation between AI and biology, and data ethics