Very interesting keynote by Muhammad Ali Khalidi on demarcation between natural and social kinds. At ENPOSS 2025 picturesque setting, Ca’ Foscari, Venice. #philsci

New article out! Honored to have worked on this with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social

Registered and looking forward to sharing a session on inequality and value-laden social science with @markfabian.bsky.social @alessandrabasso.bsky.social and Moritz Horl. (Speaking of inequality, I am thankful to have an institution to reimburse the very high registration fee). Who else is going?

Angus Deaton on economists and philosophers discussing about inequality and justice, in Cambridge, 50 years ago ‘Economics in America’ #philsci

I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end

I’m preparing a lecture on social prediction with AI and couldn’t agree more with this. I’ll be using Douglas' excellent ‘Reintroducing Prediction to Explanation.’ Now curious to hear what others are working on in this space. #philsci

Can’t wait to read this! “Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy? Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. … Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.” #Philsci

Production isn't just a matter of market coordination - financial institutions like banks and stock markets regulate it via credit and monetary policy. Mason argues we should insert public criteria into private financing, democratizing their regulating functions.

More #evidence on how #Poverty destroys people's #health and #lives... We could make the world a better place for everyone, if we wanted... #MedSky 🧪 #PoliSky #EconSky #sociology

Evidence from a progressive #tax reform in #Argentina shows that the reform had significant effects on tax compliance and that the effects depend on how households perceive the broader tax system. N Ajzenman, G Cruces, R Perez-Truglia, D Tortarolo, G Vazquez-Bare cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

I’m reading this on diffusion and it’s quite a useful way to think about public sector digital work. You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n

Paper and symposium proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement at UC Berkeley, August 5–6, 2024. Submit by April 1st! #philsci #histsci #PsychSciSky 🧪 measurementsociety.org/conference/

🗓TODAY! 6.3.2024, 15:00 (EET) Dani Rodrik: "Industrial Policies: The Old and the New" ℹ️🔗 reses-argumenta.fi?p=1049 (⌚️🇬🇧🇵🇹: 13h 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪: 14h 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇬🇷: 15h🇹🇷: 16h) #econsky @drodrik.bsky.social

UK is more unequal than centralEU countries not because UK rich are richer, but bc the mid and bottom of the distribution are poorer. If benefits keep shrinking while return on investment stay high, ineq surges. Thwaites on Ending Stagnation for how to fix this (spoiler, not by tax) #ineq #philsci

For 38% of Apple shareholders it’s time to openly discuss the ethical guidelines on AI #philsci

New paper: Any probability aggregation rule (method for merging individual probability judgments, e.g. in a committee or expert panel, into coherent collective ones) can satisfy at most two of (1) consensus preservation, (2) non-dictatorship, and (3) non-manipulability (immunity to strategy voting).

In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on 12.2., Maria Jimenez-Buedo (UNED) will give a talk entitled “Explanation and generality in Analytical Sociology." Joint work w/ Saúl Pérez-González (Valencia). More details at tint-helsinki.fi #philsci

We must ask the important questions: What are we hoping to learn from these replications? Is a replication the best design to achieve what we want to learn? Is this experiment replication-ready? We discuss these points here. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21475/

#philsci #histsci A substantial revision to “Scientific Progress” was published today by Ilkka Niiniluoto. Very interesting review.

Expected early March! Science and the Public, in the Elements in Philosophy of Science series. Scientific understanding, scientific trust, the Vienna Circle, and strong claims about what science owes society... what's not to like? www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci

Looking forward to reading this. Winsberg and Harvard are such a great team on the subject of value judgments in models used to justify action. #philsci #scipol

Official publication day of Avner de-Shalit and my City of Equals. Please check your money/sense ratio before ordering, though as it’s also available free, as a legal open access download. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

[The Economist 1973] In Egalitaria, there is no inequality of income. Population is stable, everyone has the same wage, same savings, same returns. Inheritance isn't allowed. Yet, the wealthiest 10% own 74% of wealth. Why? #PhilSci Thx to Jerry Goodenough for finding this gem.

Enjoyed reading this article by J Morton. It points to an overlooked form of inequality that might be difficult to track down: even if resources were fairly distributed, access to them might not be, offsetting the benefits of redistribution and public spending doi.org/10.1111/japp... #philsci

Spent the day at Horizon info-workshop yesterday. Lots of excitement for UK signing the association last Monday! Kudos to ROO hard work figuring out remaining open questions

Enjoyed reading this article by Uljana #Feest today. Having a positive account of context sensitivity also depends on how one thinks of the object of research. When focusing on clusters of phenomena it’s easier to see sensitivity “as a feature, not only as a bug” philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22620/