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.

Fun in the archive: Bob Cohen signs Adolf Grünbaum up for the mailing list of a theocratic political party. 😂

MN House leader Melissa Hortman assassinated today and Senator John Hoffman shot. Grotesque. Also call it like it is: this isn’t just a “murder” or “shooting.” This was a premeditated attempt to *assassinate* prominent politicians in the state. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

More fun stuff from the archives. Alfred Blumberg in May 20th, 1961 letter to Herbert Feigl: "The long afternoons will be devoted to algorithms. And the evenings? To peace and socialism, what else!"

You can always count on Scott Laderman for the sharpest critique of UMN administration

I didn’t know Thomas Nagel wrote kids books

Submissions invited for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900 Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies. Deadline: October 10, 2025 www.duchateletprize.org #HPS

Look at this gem I found today in the departmental archives. Photo of Paul Meehl, May Brodbeck, John Hospers, Herbert Feigl, and Wilfred Sellars, the editorial team for the then-new journal, Philosophical Studies.

The full programme for The Philosophy of Angela Y. Davis (22–23 May, Bergen) is now online: hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com/the-philosop... The event is hybrid – join us in Bergen or online. Register via the site to get the Zoom link. Hope to see many of you there – in person or on screen!

My review of Huaping Lu-Adler's _Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere_ (OUP 2023) was just published with the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Check it out. doi.org/10.1080/0004... #philsky #philosophy

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Look what came in the mail today 👀 #HOPOS #philsky #philsci #philosophy

I got roasted by my students this morning about being old for stating the unambiguous fact that Michael Jordan is the best basketball player ever, over LeBron James.

babe wake up. the new liar paradox just dropped

me, accidentally hitting 'reply-all':

Michael Friedman created the intellectual and institutional space in which my research exists and had been a generous supporter of my work. In several ways, I owe my career to him. I celebrate the mark he left on the field and how he’ll live on through his works and those he impacted.

I wonder what they are going to do with all that genetic data that they have 🤔🤔🤔

Hey uni/college instructors! Now is a great time to send emails to specific students that may be struggling in your courses or whose attendance is lagging with encouragement and resources. Just sent out a handful of my own and got some lovely and thankful responses.

University of Minnesota cowers and self-censors in the face of controversy www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

☀️ Good Morning! ☀️ Today I'm chairing a session at the virtual Central meeting of the APA @apaphilosophy.bsky.social on Decolonizing Early Modern Philosophy. Excited to hear from Dwight Lewis and Maria Mejia and to discuss work still to be done for historians of philosophy! #philsky #philosophy

Civil rights? Public health? Food safety? The University of Minnesota may ban departments and centers from making any public statement on any matter of public concern. www.startribune.com/university-o...

Imagine leaders of a public University prohibiting its institutes, centers and academic departments from making “statements addressing matters of public concern or public interest." If you are an alum, student or supporter, tell the Regents what a mistake that is regents.umn.edu/contact-info...

The 2025 APA Central Division Meeting will include 5 sessions that are free and open to the public—no registration needed! Visit https://www.apaonline.org/event/2025central for more information. #APACentral25

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🔵 For our first post on Bluesky, we are delighted to announce that the call for applications for our 2025/2026 Fellowship Scheme is now open: 👥 15 spots are available! ⏳Deadline: Monday 31 March 2025 Find out how to apply 👇 philsci.eu/fellowships/...