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 Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers.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...

The book reviews in #HOPOS, under the editorship of Trevor Pearce, are not to be missed. In the latest issue, Alexis Dianda reviews Emma K. Sutton's _William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician._ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

"Spinoza on Space and Motion" By Stephen Harrop In the latest issue of #HOPOS. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

My article in HOPOS, "Feyerabend, Freedom, and the Tyranny of Science" is now available ahead of print over at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

A new #HOPOS paper from Tivadar Vervoort on the relations between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School and the French epistemologists including Michel Foucault. “Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Hi there, we are the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy! (JHAP) We are a philosophical journal publishing articles on, well, the history of analytic philosophy! Follow us for updates on the journal.

It’s here! My volume on Susan Stebbing (co-edited with Annalisa Coliva). Out in print at the end of this month! academic.oup.com/book/60791?l...

Revival of Lamarckism in #HOPOS! Now that we have your attention: In our latest issue Maurizio Meloni reviews Snait B. Gissis's _Lamarckism and the Emergence of ‘Scientific’ Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France_.

In the latest #HOPOS Fenner Tanswell, Brendan Larvor & Colin Rittberg "examine the origins of the dialectical approach to the philosophy of mathematics." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin. It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

"In 2011, Richard Serjeantson discovered a hitherto unknown manuscript copy" of René Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii. This review by Tarek R. Dika, John Schuster & David Rabouin centers on a new edition by Richard Serjeantson & Michael Edwards. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....