The latest ISHPSSB newsletter is out! Read it here 👉 www.ishpssb.org/images/downl... Enjoy!

So turns out Cantor stole the proof that \\(\mathbb{R}\\) is uncountable from Dedekind https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

Tipper was incredible - not only was she a Research Assistant in the DFRL at @rigb.org in the early 1920s, but simultaneously worked at the Royal School of Mines AND assisted GI Taylor at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social

Günther Sandner reviews Silke Körber's _Die Visualisierung von Wissen im “Jahrhundert des Auges”: Otto Neurath, Isotype und Adprint_ in the latest #HOPOS. Image credit Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection, University of Reading. Review: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

See me talk about a thing. (I'm less critical than it might sound from the abstract.)

Laura Georgescu reviews David Marshall Miller and Dana Jalobeanu's The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution in #HOPOS. Review: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... Book website: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Delighted to share the news that my wonderful #HPS colleague @miguelohn.bsky.social has been appointed the next Director of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, beginning July 1st. Congrats Miguel! www.bu.edu/cphs/about/

Calling master students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows in the fields of philosophy, life sciences & medicine! Apply now to come to Bordeaux in June and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods #philsky #philsci #biology #neuroscience

Sander Verhaegh's "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective." Part I: Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy (Spr 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... Part II: Analytic versus Continental Philosophy (Fall 2025): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

The full SHPS book forum on Inference and Representation is now out, with contributions by Chiara Ambrosio, Alexander Bird and Oscar Westerblad: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... I respond here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience

Congratulations to former MCPS postdoc Max Dresow for two recent publications. With Alan Love @thebjps.bsky.social - The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation. And in @universitypress.cambridge.org -

About a month to go to submit a symposium to PSA26! Deadline 15 Jan 2026.

New Special Issue of #HOPOS on Paul Feyerabend. Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers. Link to the special issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...

My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...

*HOPOS Capital Campaign* Support the #HOPOS Society's upcoming projects including our conferences, mentoring programs, grants, and awards. Article: lydiapatton.weebly.com/the-circle/s... Link to donate: subfill.uchicago.edu/JournalPubs/...

The Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

In the latest issue of #HOPOS Jacob McDowell notes the surprising fact that Thomas Kuhn endorses "aspects of the causal theory [of reference] in several later essays while maintaining the possibility of incommensurability". Link to the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

AI for the win again

*HOPOS Capital Campaign* Support the #HOPOS Society's upcoming projects including our conferences, mentoring programs, grants, and awards. Article: lydiapatton.weebly.com/the-circle/s... Link to donate: subfill.uchicago.edu/JournalPubs/...

In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism." Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

“How science is changing” Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist! @ucpews.bsky.social #philsci buff.ly/uMkmXd8

Aram d’Abro was an influential science populariser who wrote The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein and The Rise of the New Physics (prevl The Decline of Mechanism …). Does anyone on here know of any papers, books, whatever that discuss him or his work?

New on the Archive: Norton, John D. (2024) The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27217/

As a consequence L believed that, like classical physics, geological dynamics are ergodic. In exploring a Newtonian state space, the earth system will return to a state in which iguanadons, ichthyosaurs, and pterodactyls roam the earth Henry De la Beche mocked him here 🗃️🧠🧪 ⚒️ 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci 🐡

New on the Archive: Seifert, Vanessa A. (2025) The many laws in the periodic table. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27237/

HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov) Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…

Manuel Fasko writes in the latest #HOPOS about ""Mary Shepherd’s Influence on Mary Somerville on Induction." Link here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

In the latest #HOPOS, Ties van Gemert analyzes a 1968 lecture by the French historian and philosopher of science Suzanne Bachelard (1919–2007), titled “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”. Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Our newest issue culminates #HOPOS's 15th year in publication. Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method. Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20... #philsky #histsci

The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS. "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2" Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6 (1/2)

The book review of my René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies (Springer 2024) - publioshed in @hoposjournal.bsky.social (2025/2) by Patricia Easton #descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #plantstudies www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell

If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky

Save the date:The next biennial Society for the Study of Measurement (SSM) conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️ measurementsociety.org #HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci

The new Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989. Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology

In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century. Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026 Ohio State University, Columbus (OH) 22 to 26 June 2026 NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US hopos2026.dryfta.com. #HPS #philsky 🗃️

#Job #PhilSci #HPS Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025 Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451... On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...

The new Cambridge Element on Philosophy of Cosmology by Siska de Baerdemaeker is available for free download until Friday, October 3. www.cambridge.org/core/element... De Baerdemaeker's article in #HOPOS on the history of cosmology can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Interested in #PhilosophyOfBiology? Check out the new Cambridge Elements on "The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking" by @thomasreydon.bsky.social. Available #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #evobio

The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) has just joined Bluesky! If you’re interested in #logic, epistemology, general #philsci, or the philosophy of the special sciences, consider following @clpskuleuven.bsky.social for updates on publications, events, and much more! 👇 #HPS #philsky

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

In the Spring 2025 issue of #HOPOS Anna Bellomo writes on the history of the formalist tradition in mathematics, focusing on the 'principle of permanence of equivalent forms' in George Peacock and Hermann Hankel. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

“[Mind] is an added property assumed by a feeling creature, when it reaches that organized interaction with other living creatures which is language, communication. Then the qualities of feeling become significant of objective differences in... (1/3)

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry (AAPP) invites entries for its student & trainee essay competition! 📝 Eligible: undergrads & grads (phil, psych, related fields), med students, and residents/fellows in psychiatry. 📅 Deadline: Dec 7 🔗 Details: aapp.press.jhu.edu/j...