Are you a philosopher of biology or physics interested in interdisciplinary research? Do questions about life (evolved & artificial), self-organization and #development fascinate you? If so, we have an exciting postdoctoral opportunity for you! Please help us spread the word! #HPbio #philsci #ALife

Join us tomorrow for the last Brown Bag seminar of 2025! @gregorboes.bsky.social will present his new FWO project, which brings together the phenomenological & analytic philosophy of science traditions of thinking about scientific representation 👇 research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/pr... #philsci #HPS

How are the limits of knowledge understood in Peirce’s philosophy? In a recent 📃, Kristine Grigoryan & Felipe Morales Carbonell examine Peirce’s stance toward the knowability thesis—viz. that every truth is, in principle, knowable—and Fitch’s paradox 👇 www.pdcnet.org/resphilosoph... #philsky #HPS

From the new issue: The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations – Sheldon Goldstein, Ward Struyve & Roderich Tumulka Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

How are the limits of knowledge understood in Peirce’s philosophy? In a recent 📃, Kristine Grigoryan & Felipe Morales Carbonell examine Peirce’s stance toward the knowability thesis—viz. that every truth is, in principle, knowable—and Fitch’s paradox 👇 www.pdcnet.org/resphilosoph... #philsky #HPS

A recent surge of scientific studies claims that contact with ‘nature’ boosts well-being. But in tomorrow’s seminar, @andreasdeblock.bsky.social will argue that these studies rely on vague key notions, weak causal grounding, and predictions broad enough to fit almost any result. Join us! #philsci

The Fate of Behavioral Modernity now out in BiolTheory (@biologicaltheory.bsky.social) ! Not OA, but you can access the PDF here: rdcu.be/eTFFX I hope it helps open up a disenchanted conversation abt the evolution of the concept & possible ways forward. #philbio #philsky #evosky #archaeosky 🏺💀

New paper 📄 from Alexander De Klerck & Lorenz Demey: a reconceptualization of alpha-structures & ladders using the tools of contemporary logical geometry. By imposing precise orderings, they map these Aristotelian diagrams into one another 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #logic #mathsky

Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky

New paper 📄 from Alexander De Klerck & Lorenz Demey: a reconceptualization of alpha-structures & ladders using the tools of contemporary logical geometry. By imposing precise orderings, they map these Aristotelian diagrams into one another 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #logic #mathsky

At CLPS, we host Brown Bag seminars—informal, discussion-focused sessions for sharing works-in-progress or addressing roadblocks where feedback would be helpful. This Friday Sonja Samira Spörl will present on measuring virtues at the interface of #philosophy & empirical psychology. Join us! #philsci

Whither academic writing in the age of #AI? Sylvia Wenmackers reminds us that essays are trials in the search for better texts—their existence is a victory over the temptation not to try. Instead of giving in with LLMs, let's keep trying! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #AcademicSky

At CLPS, we host Brown Bag seminars—informal, discussion-focused sessions for sharing works-in-progress or addressing roadblocks where feedback would be helpful. This Friday Sonja Samira Spörl will present on measuring virtues at the interface of #philosophy & empirical psychology. Join us! #philsci

I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky

Whither academic writing in the age of #AI? Sylvia Wenmackers reminds us that essays are trials in the search for better texts—their existence is a victory over the temptation not to try. Instead of giving in with LLMs, let's keep trying! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #AcademicSky

The surprising crab-trap–pulling behavior is described in this article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We recently published a paper on how animal tool use is conceptualized, offering a framework to make sense of its different forms 👇📃 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #evosky #philsci

If you are familiar with decision theory and microeconomics, you have probably heard of 'two-stage lotteries'—lotteries whose prizes are themselves one-stage lotteries. But how should their value be assessed? Come tomorrow to the next CLPS seminar to hear Luc Lauwers’s answer! #philsky #econsky

In their new 📃, @elisj.bsky.social & Vincent Cuypers argue that the marine sciences, with their extreme environmental constraints, offer revealing cases for #philsci that can sharpen our understanding of scientific generalization & the role of values 🌊🪸👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPBio #HPS

New on the Archive: Prieto, Guido I. and Fábregas-Tejeda, Alejandro (2025) Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27297/

🥳 Niew boek is uit, reeds in twee druk 💥 over AI, de toekomst, risico's en geopolitiek 🙏 boekhandel limerick in Gent voor de boekpresentatie vorige donderdag

In their new 📃, @elisj.bsky.social & Vincent Cuypers argue that the marine sciences, with their extreme environmental constraints, offer revealing cases for #philsci that can sharpen our understanding of scientific generalization & the role of values 🌊🪸👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPBio #HPS

Are theories such as classical electrodynamics & non-relativistic #quantummechanics time-reversal invariant? In a recent @thebjps.bsky.social article, Ward Struyve argues that—with a suitable choice of ontology—they are! Read the 📃 here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Solving the #alignment problem is often seen as a panacea amid fears of reaching #AGI. But in tomorrow’s seminar, Torben Swoboda will argue that alignment can itself be problematic if the values involved reflect only developers’ goals rather than broader human interests. Come around! #philsky #HPS

New on the Archive: Struyve, Ward (2025) On the action principle as a guide to substantive general covariance. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27252/

Are you a Dutch-speaking psychologist looking for an accessible introduction to #philosophy — one that also addresses topics such as the mind-body problem, #evolution & #psychopathology? Then look no further: Pieter Adriaens’s book is for you! 👇 www.pelckmansuitgevers.be/denken-over-... #HPS #cogsci

Are theories such as classical electrodynamics & non-relativistic #quantummechanics time-reversal invariant? In a recent @thebjps.bsky.social article, Ward Struyve argues that—with a suitable choice of ontology—they are! Read the 📃 here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Are you a Dutch-speaking psychologist looking for an accessible introduction to #philosophy — one that also addresses topics such as the mind-body problem, #evolution & #psychopathology? Then look no further: Pieter Adriaens’s book is for you! 👇 www.pelckmansuitgevers.be/denken-over-... #HPS #cogsci

Join us on Friday for the next CLPS seminar! Karolina Krzyzanowska (University of Amsterdam) will examine how framed messages in #health campaigns affect persuasion, drawing on philosophical #logic & the psychology of conditional reasoning 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #cogsci #philsci

In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky

Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio

In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky

Much of the empirical & theoretical landscape on #behaviouralmodernity has changed, and many think it’s high time we ditched the concept altogether. Here’s a minority voice in the choir: I’m skeptical that eliminativism is the panacea it’s often made out to be. 🔜 in Biol Theory #philsky #evosky🧪🏺

Some of philosophy’s most famous paradoxes are arguments by reductio—though not every reductio earns the title of “paradox.” Drawing on the writings of al-Fārābī, Boaz Schuman will offer an answer to why that is in today's CLPS seminar! 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #histphil #logic

Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪

Verbied ontwikkelingen van AI die kan liegen. @lodelauwaert.bsky.social in de Volkskrant.

Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪

Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colage', and I wrote a paper on the evolution of #collectiveintelligence, epistemic #nicheconstruction, and the material traces of #hominin alterations to informational landscapes. Forthcoming in PTRS B! Preprint 🔗👇 osf.io/preprints/so... 🧪🏺 #philsky #paleosky #evosky

In the context of our present global juncture, philosophers are examining the rise of populist movements & their threats to democratic values. Griet Galle & colleagues have edited a trilingual collective volume addressing these issues. Check it out! 📙👇 lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-6... #philsky #polphil

Each generation seems to rediscover the riddle of organismal agency: are organisms agents that pursue intrinsic goals—and how could we know? Our 📕 gathers historians, philosophers & scientists to explore this debate—now available in paperback!👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsky #HPS #evobio

In the context of our present global juncture, philosophers are examining the rise of populist movements & their threats to democratic values. Griet Galle & colleagues have edited a trilingual collective volume addressing these issues. Check it out! 📙👇 lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-6... #philsky #polphil

New paper in @philscijournal.bsky.social! Sacha Ferrari, Wouter Lammers & Sylvia Wenmackers built an agent-based model to explore how the structure of scientific #networks shapes the public uptake of science—especially under uncertainty & affinity bias👇 doi.org/10.1017/psa.... #philsci #philsky #HPS

Correlation isn’t causation, as the mantra goes—but statistical noise in correlational data can reveal causal information. When X and Y are causally linked, their noise tends to be asymmetric & this can guide #CausalInference. Check out our 📃👇 doi.org/10.1111/nous... #philsky #philsci #StatsSky #HPS

New paper in @philscijournal.bsky.social! Sacha Ferrari, Wouter Lammers & Sylvia Wenmackers built an agent-based model to explore how the structure of scientific #networks shapes the public uptake of science—especially under uncertainty & affinity bias👇 doi.org/10.1017/psa.... #philsci #philsky #HPS

We are excited to share our latest paper contributing to the debate on the representational status of model organisms! Drawing on and refining the DEKI account of scientific representation, we argue that MOs are best understood as 'model carriers' 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio

The Church–Fitch paradox of knowability derives the omniscience thesis from the knowability thesis. In response, dynamic conceptions of knowability have been proposed. In a new 📃, Jan Heylen offers a critical examination of the dynamic approach 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #logic

Tomorrow we will host the conference "The Dānešnāme and Its (Structural) Aftermath," organized by Shahab Khademi & Marco Signori. Join us for a stellar lineup of speakers reflecting on Avicenna’s intellectual legacy! Details for online participation 👇 www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event... #philsky #HPS

Are you curious about what computational methods can offer to #HPS? Then check out the edited volume by Grant Ramsey & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social, published by @upittpress.bsky.social, showcasing key tools, questions, and investigative perspectives 👇📕💻 upittpress.org/books/978082... #philsky #DH

The Church–Fitch paradox of knowability derives the omniscience thesis from the knowability thesis. In response, dynamic conceptions of knowability have been proposed. In a new 📃, Jan Heylen offers a critical examination of the dynamic approach 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #logic

I’m excited to share that @lodelauwaert.bsky.social and I are writing a book tentatively titled 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦! It will be published by Wiley.

In recent decades, scholars have examined various facets of Avicenna’s #logic. But how did Avicenna himself conceptualize logic—its definition, status, and purpose? PhD student Shahab Khademi explores this question in a new paper! 👇📃 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #histphil #HPS