Manuel Neuer?? More like Manuel Alter. Heyyyyooooooooooo

Excited to be on my way to Columbus for the 2026 HOPOS conference! I’ll be presenting on the philosophical backdrop to Cronbach & Meehl’s watershed 1955 construct validity paper. See y’all there. #HOPOS #HPS

"Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology" is now actually out in Phil Studies! :D link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

High quality volume from excellent editors!

My paper "Reflections on Crisis Science," was accepted for presentation at PSA26, this November in San Diego. Here's the preprint for those interested! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29859/

lmao

“Elmo is capital” should enter the discourse

Watch now! The 2026 Giere Memorial lecture in philosophy of science recording is now on the MCPS YouTube channel. Thank you to Dr Roman Frigg! buff.ly/yfRXxh4 @lsephilosophy.bsky.social #philsci

found a good one.

2 of the first 3 philosophy of science papers I've graded have referenced the TV show Big Bang Theory

my computer trying to shame me about me email responsiveness

nah nah nah you got the wrong guy

“”””scheduled””””

Lmao now google docs shoves its Gemini Clippy in your face immediately as you write

I’m at the “I had a dream about finding a complete manuscript that I had forgot I had written” stage of my writing process

Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/

New association alert: APA Central Division past president Valerie Tiberius is the inaugural president of the International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP). APA member John Doris is a co-project director. ISMP membership is free for a limited time. dailynous.com/2026/04/13/n...

Registration now open for HOPOS 2026, the 16th Biennial Congress of HOPOS (The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science). Ohio State University, Columbus (OH) 22 to 25 June 2026 buff.ly/SNV412s

3 more PSA Office Hours this semester! All at 12pm EDT. April: Scientific Epistemology:KareemKhalifa, Pitt/UCLA: 8 April; May: Philos of Ecology:KarenKovaka (UC SanDiego)&CarlosSantana (UPenn): 7 May; May: Philos of Linguistics:GabrielDupre (UC Davis)&Ryan Nefdt (U CapeTown): 20 May

Oh fuck off

Second time in a week that a student had asked me if I am majoring in philosophy

To 99% of ICE-occupied Minneapolis, the line between good and evil over the past two months has been absolutely clear. Yet the #UMN administration has consistently picked the wrong side. www.startribune.com/politics-uni...

Dear Kant Scholar friends: do you know of any texts in which Kant reflected on the Russian occupation of Königsberg during the Seven Year’s War? Starting a course on Kant next week and trying to make it more relevant to the current events in (occupied) Minneapolis. #philosophy #kant

we're so back #hopos

google is out of control. google docs' auto grammar check just told me I should split my infinitive. 😡

philosophers out here just hiring anyone these days smh

UMN administration has not taken this simple step.

3 year PhD position at U of Copenhagen for a philosophical analysis of animal models in translational neuroscience. Those with MA in HPS, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, STS, etc. are welcome to apply. Application deadline is Oct 31 #HPS #STS employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Real @nytpitchbot.bsky.social energy here…

There's still time to submit to HOPOS 2026 - The Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. June 22-26, 2026 at The Ohio State University. Deadline: 11:59 PM (PDT), September 30, 2025. hopos2026.dryfta.com/index.php

🎙️ New HPS Pod! I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions. 🎧 Link in bio! #HOPOS

Nah, you can't do that. That's Ohio State's thing.

New tat substantially increases my #HOPOS cred

Unsolicited advice for incoming PhD students: Be wary of faculty who tend to shit-talk their colleagues in the presence of students. Don't allow yourself to be conscripted into their petty rivalries

Has anyone written on historians of philosophy's propensity to write in present tense about historical philosophical theories? There is some sort of Platonic assumption about the atemporality of the conceptual systems we are engaging with, right?

Going to @philipcball.bsky.social’s Plenary at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #ishpssb2025

Today I’m presenting my talk, “Reflections on Crisis Science” at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social, 14:30–15:00. Come and hear about my take on philosophical accounts of science in times of crisis and reflections on conservation biology! #ishpssb2025 #philsci

UGH the Institute for the Unity of Science had a relationship with both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. We cannot have one organization with separate relationships with distinct AAAS's. 😠

so who is going to write a book on the 1947 meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association???

So, uh, reading through philosophy of science archives, and... does anyone know anything about Ian Hacking "beating up on a cop" in 1981? That sounds like a good story.

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

I swear to God, some Schilpp volume or another comes up in every letter sent among philosophers of science in the 20th century.

Reichenbach in a 1935 letter to Hempel on Popper’s _Logik der Forschung_. Describes the book as disregarding all problems with shocking naïveté and containing several substantial mathematical errors. Love spicy letters. 🌶️

this is the most one-sided two-option poll i can remember seeing. you could probably get 10 percent of americans to respond that installing your air conditioner backwards so that cold air blows outside will fix the environment

Already read empiricism semantics and ontology so I won't be buying this.