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Today in two weeks, the autumn edition of our joint research seminar PHO2 will begin with @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social's talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History". The talk will be hybrid (in Ostrava & on Zoom). More info: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ar.... All welcome!

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it

This week, I taught Hempel's d-n model in my philosophy of history course. And each time I come back to that text, I think I become more sympathetic to his point. I'm not sure which of my assumptions is shaken, but the model seems much more attractive now than when I first read about it years ago.

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I'm not prepared for all the marking I'll have to do this week. Wish me luck.

🧵1/ I'm happy to share my new article just published in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science: "Political philosophy of experimentation" 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #STS #politicalphilosophy

Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’ Deadline: 30 June 2025 #HPS

Into the syllabus it goes.

My wife said not much has changed here because I have always complained a lot. Ok, fair enough.

I blame Liam for me being increasingly annoyed with my field.

I find humanities debates re how to be Radical very quaint. Imo the reason us sitting around and arguing about metaphysics isn't actually leading to substantial increases in power or wellbeing for the working class has nothing to do with the particular way we sit around and argue about metaphysics.

Only a few days left to apply for the postdoc position in the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Deadline 9 June.

Excellent thread. I take it as a positive that (analytic) philosophy of science is grappling with the non-cognitive aims and values of science (as something constitutive of science and relevant to its cognitive aims).

DOMINO-TALK: We are happy to announce a #dominotalk between @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social and Shahzad Bashir, which will take place next Thursday, the fifth of June. Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online! #theoryofhistory | #Material-Oriented-Theory-of-History

quem estiver em BH semana que vem, vamos nos verrrr

Some researchers, including some I very much respect, think that we need to stop pussyfooting around and start being more brutal in our way of talking about bad work in our field I disagree. When you are refuting someone’s work, I think it’s important not to be a dick about it

This whole situation in the US is completely absurd. I hope everyone finds good opportunities elsewhere asap.

Good points and good advice!

“supporters of populist radical right parties in Sweden and Norway are more likely than others to endorse generic essentialist views, which have historically been linked to discriminatory and eugenic ideologies” www.psypost.org/genetic-esse...

Currently, alphabetical by author's surname.

This is completely correct. While your professors might care about "metaphysics" or "philosophy of language" or other niche fields, remember that the only thing the profession cares about (and hires in) is philosophy of AI

Our June 2025 issue is out now! 🎉 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

Peer review is genuinely not a fraud detection mechanism and shouldn't be taken to be. It's not really a knock against a peer review system for failing to pick up when data is faked. The system is already over worked if we did data forensics at scale as a standard part of review it grinds to a halt.

This week our methodological seminar is specifically about writing. (I dedicate the whole semester to getting them to write a single-page essay well, as we discuss different approaches to philsci, sts, hps etc.) So what would be your top recommendation, tip, or resource on academic writing?

Visual representations of diachronic processes are fascinating.

I had to export this from Instagram.

We just gotta take a hardline No Woo stance I think. There're genuinely difficult questions about how this relates to traditional religion (being the political party of Reddit Atheists would be, for various reasons, bad) but some kinda "know it when I see it" ability to rule out this stuff is vital.

My article on historical (anti-)realism has been accepted in @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social and is now going through the pipeline. It's scheduled for the March 26 issue, so it may take a while to go up online. I wrote it during my sabbatical last year, while I was at Queen's University.

My article on historical (anti-)realism has been accepted in @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social and is now going through the pipeline. It's scheduled for the March 26 issue, so it may take a while to go up online. I wrote it during my sabbatical last year, while I was at Queen's University.

Things only happen cos leftists make them happen (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...). Even to the point that far rightists wouldn't have been racist unless, alas, the left exercised their monopoly on agency to make them so. One of the genuinely puzzling features of our ideological landscape!

This special issue seems fascinating!

For a moment, I thought Ian was taking about academia.

CFP Journal of the Philosophy of History: Tradition in the Philosophy of History ugent.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?...

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

That has been my experience, too. People are usually excited to send you a copy and discuss their work.

Great work on something really, really useful.

I wrote something. I hope it's not too controversial. axdouglas.substack.com/p/political-...

In this piece, I've put together some new reflections on historical events. If I were more pollemically inclined, I might have called it "Probing the Limits of Explanation". Let this be a social media version of the title. #philhist #Historiography #History www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SXPKB...

This looks absolutely amazing!

Some fascinating replies here!

Absolutely this.

*a millennial's tear of joy*

This is a very basic and absolutely essential point that virtually nobody, even within the university, ever raises. We’re on the brink of a massive loss of disciplinary skills and knowledge — a loss that we are, by and large, choosing, without even discussing it as anything more than a market shift.

PHO2 continues! Next week Thursday already (27.03, 16h/17h Central European/Finnish time), Gunnar Schumann (University of Hagen, Germany) will give the talk "On Historical Explanation. An Anti-Causalist Approach". See here for the abstract and Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/hi.... All welcome!

CfP: “History of Intellectual Culture” We invite contributions to Vol. 5 of the scholarly yearbook "History of Intellectual Culture" (De Gruyter), to be published in autumn 2026. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 5 May. Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/03/18/c...

📢 Our March 2025 issue is out now! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

⭐ out now our call for papers: Workshop History of Digital History between East and West - 5-6 February 2026 @c2dh.uni.lu - Deadline for abstracts: 29 May #digitalhistory #dhist #digitalhumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

I thought I didn't care much about this kind of thing, but today I learned a big project of mine was mentioned in a public text without my name appearing once and this got me upset. I appreciate the lesson on self-awareness.

Metascience is trying to do the demarcation problem today, so let me suggest you all stop, read this, and digest the fact that philosophers of science pretty much gave up on demarcation 40 years ago sci-hub.se/10.1007/978-... #philsci #sts