Wohoo, the whole special issue "Continually Discovering Complexity: Essays in Honor of William Bechtel" in @biologicaltheory.bsky.social is out! Edited by Daniel C. Burnston - explore this intellectually exciting collection! #HPS #PhilSci #HistSTM #PhilBio #mechanism #complexity #explanation 1/3

We're hiring! Come join the Dewey Center as a Program Assistant. This is a full-time staff/admin position that assists Director Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com

We are delighted to announce that HOPOS will become a publication of Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org as of 2027. All publications starting with vol. 17 will be open access. It is an honor to join the Cambridge family of journals. #HOPOS #HPS #philsky #philosophy #histsci

Preprint of a forthcoming paper in HOPOS @hoposjournal.bsky.social on Thomas Kuhn's (unpublished) work on the history of quantum physics

Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant (2026). Edited by Flavia Padovani, Adam Tamas Tuboly. The 50 essays in this Handbook cover perspectives, theories, movements, and traditions in the field. Link: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/

📢 Pleased to share that my chapter “Bachelardian and Continental Epistemologies” is out in The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant (Padovani & Tuboly): www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference The History of the Philosophy of Technology October 26-28, 2026 Maastricht University Theme: national and regional traditions Abstracts by 25 May 2026 fasos-research.nl/history-of-p... #philtech #hopot #hopos #histtech

I am extremely proud to tell you that one of my excellent students, @kylefoster.bsky.social, has a review of Fred Beiser's EARLY GERMAN POSITIVISM in the current issue of @hoposjournal.bsky.social! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The Spring 2026 issue of #HOPOS is here! Check it out: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...

George A. Reisch & Adam Tamas Tuboly uncovered "the typescript on which the book under review is based": The Humanistic Background of Science. It had been "forgotten for more than 60 years." Read the essay review by Hans-Joachim Dahms: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In the latest #HOPOS, Jamie Shaw, Kevin C. Elliott, and Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira provide a transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists.” Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In "Styles Against Method", Joseba Pascual Alba explores "the connection between Feyerabend’s overarching anarchism and Ian Hacking’s “anarcho-rationalism,” as presented in [Hacking's] “styles project.” Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A review of my book by Peter West (@peterwest23.bsky.social ) in HOPOS.

Peter West reviews Andreas Vrahimis's book Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy in #HOPOS. Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In the latest issue of #HOPOS, Parysa Mostajir writes that John Dewey espouses a version of epistemological scientism, but one that 'diverges' significantly from more recent versions. Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #hps #philsky #histsci

Susan Haack, a leading epistemologist and philosopher of logic, passed away yesterday. Sit ei terra levis news.miami.edu/as/stories/2...

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/...