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Historian of Science
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Philosophy Talk
3 months ago
For our next broadcast, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to get the story behind an infamous 1922 encounter from Jimena
@canales.bsky.social
, author of "The Physicist & the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time":
youtu.be/IRQXam9WV-w
#PhilSky
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Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time: Roving Philosophical Report
YouTube video by Philosophy Talk
https://youtu.be/IRQXam9WV-w
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www.ec-chronoi.de/post/worksho...
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Workshop: “Time Revolution: Contemporary Thought and the Struggle Against Scientific Necessity”
Join us on July 17th and 18th for a workshop organized by Amir Engel
https://www.ec-chronoi.de/post/workshop-time-revolution-contemporary-thought-and-the-struggle-against-scientific-necessity
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What are Science readers enjoying?
6 months ago
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#ACLS
www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-p...
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Humanities Organizations File Lawsuit Against NEH Over Massive Program Cuts
NEH has suspended entire divisions, initiated firing 65 percent of its staff, and halted numerous grant programs in recent weeks.
https://www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-policy/article/15744656/humanities-organizations-file-lawsuit-against-neh-over-massive-program-cuts
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#ACLS
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/d...
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DOGE Sued Over Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities
The Department of Government Efficiency has left the National Endowment for the Humanities “a shell” of an agency through its cost-cutting efforts, several grantees said in a new lawsuit Thursday.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/doge-sued-over-cuts-at-national-endowment-for-the-humanities
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Three Humanities Organizations Sue NEH Over Its ‘Dismantling’
American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and MLA have sued the NEH over its dismantling, as well as DOGE.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/neh-dismantling-lawsuit-acls-mla-aha-1234740476/
7 months ago
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Jimena Canales
Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica
7 months ago
📢Torna
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➡️ Estrenem la temporada amb
@canales.bsky.social
l historiadora de la ciència i membre de la
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🔥 Los demonios de la ciencia no se presentan como antítesis de los ángeles, sino que tienen su propio lugar.
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New book review:
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Review | A new study of Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning
In “I Am a Part of Infinity,” Kieran Fox celebrates Einstein’s attempt to address the emptiness of a disenchanted world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/03/31/einstein-spirituality-infinity-kieran-fox-review/
8 months ago
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Excited to participate:
news.stonybrook.edu/university/c...
8 months ago
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Aeon Magazine
8 months ago
Beyond the equations and experiments, physics has always carried echoes of the divine.
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Why physics today stands on the wings of angels and demons | Aeon Essays
When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics
https://aeon.co/essays/why-physics-today-stands-on-the-wings-of-angels-and-demons
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Bravo
@clearwing3.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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Tiempo medido y tiempo vivido
formasnomadas.com/2025/01/30/m...
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Medido / vivido – Formas Nómadas
https://formasnomadas.com/2025/01/30/medido-vivido/
9 months ago
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Roger Whitson
10 months ago
LOVE that book, and your 10th of a Second Book.
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Thank you!
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Thank you! Totally recommend
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Rhys Ting
10 months ago
Of course! I have gotten so much out of “Bedeviled” and “The Physicist and the Philosopher”, so I should be the one thanking you ☺️
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤
about 2 years ago
thinking about Jimena Canales, Tenth of a Second; D&G, 1000 Plateaus; Foucault on power&resistance; Barthes' Camera Lucida. Any readings on movements & dynamics in political, musical senses?
@alc0fribas.bsky.social
are there perhaps accessible works in history of maths for non-expert mathematicians?
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10 months ago
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Roger Whitson
12 months ago
Playground - Richard Powers The Just City - Jo Walton Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon What is Compersion? - Marie Thouin The Physicist and the Philosopher - Jimena Canales 💙📚
#BookSky
#BookList
#BooksRead
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Thank you! Totally recommend
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Alisa Bokulich
10 months ago
Hmmm seems another imposter case....
#philsci
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Book of the month!
#Bedeviled
letraslibres.com/revista/maia...
10 months ago
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La historia de los demonios es nada menos que un buen trozo de la historia de la física occidental ... y discutir con lucidez y picardía su utilidad como herramienta para extender las ideas científicas
letraslibres.com/revista/maia...
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Demonología de la imaginación científica | Letras Libres
Maia F. Miret reseña "La ciencia y sus demonios", de Jimena Canales.
https://letraslibres.com/revista/maia-f-miret-ciencia-demonios-jimena-canales/
11 months ago
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"Envy can include admiration and is compatible with the most amicable feelings toward the person envied." Freud to Einstein, 1929
11 months ago
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Jimena Canales
11 months ago
Thoroughly enjoying your book “The Physicist and the Philosopher” and looking forward to reading “Herald of a Restless World” by
@emilyherring.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Thrilled to be mentioned in
@science.org
12 months ago
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Evan Thompson
12 months ago
Here's my recent piece on the Bergson-Einstein debate, which is based on The Blind Spot and indebted to
@canales.bsky.social
's book.
aeon.co/essays/who-r...
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Who really won when Bergson and Einstein debated time? | Aeon Essays
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?
https://aeon.co/essays/who-really-won-when-bergson-and-einstein-debated-time
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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” Oscar Wilde
about 1 year ago
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Delicious morning treat!
@emilyherring.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Alisa Bokulich
over 1 year ago
#histsci
#physics
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New book out!
over 1 year ago
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Always a necessary reminder:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/live...
almost 2 years ago
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Thrilled to participate:
www.essentiafoundation.org/announcing-t...
almost 2 years ago
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Emily Herring
about 2 years ago
It's Bergson's birthday born OTD 1859! Did you know that this French philosopher was so famous in the early 20th century that he caused the 1st ever traffic jam on Broadway? More in this article I wrote about how his many female fans were used to discredit him and his ideas
aeon.co/essays/henri...
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Henri Bergson, the philosopher damned for his female fans | Aeon Essays
Women loved Bergson’s philosophy of creativity, change and freedom, but their enthusiasm fuelled a backlash against him
https://aeon.co/essays/henri-bergson-the-philosopher-damned-for-his-female-fans
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Mauricio Suárez
about 2 years ago
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Inference and Representation is now in production and will be out December 6. Table of contents, pre-orders, and some early reviews can be found at its webpage @ Chicago University Press:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Inference and Representation
The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that de...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo207912978.html
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AI Model Based on Harvard President Gay Taken Down After Instructions Allegedly Invoked Racist Stere...
AI Model Based on Harvard President Gay Taken Down After Instructions Allegedly Invoked Racist Stereotypes | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/16/claudinegpt-taken-down/?fbclid=IwAR3BnVEsOGo_K77jIIGVStIt8dHzc6j4wY4e-bLti7SbHcbGORNchpuXBzo
about 2 years ago
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Michael Landis
about 2 years ago
Welcome
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! Also, enjoying Bedeviled thanks to your rec
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