Our paper “The Catalogue of Mechanisms in Analytical Sociology” (with @mjbuedo.bsky.social) has been published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. We analyse, operationalise, and assess the project of the catalogue of mechanisms. #PhilSci journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🟢 Manchester Online Seminar on Evidential Pluralism 📅 26 May | 15:00–16:30 María Jiménez-Buedo @mjbuedo.bsky.social (UNED) & Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social (València) “Mechanism-based Explanation in Analytical Sociology” More info: jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

🟢 Segundo taller de investigación en historia y filosofía de la ciencia 📍 Palau Cerveró, Universitat de València 📅 Viernes, 22 de mayo de 2026 | 11:00 🔹Berta Peñasco (UNED) 🔹Laura Guinot Ferri (UV) 🔹Mariano Martín (UNED) Más información: n9.cl/l28u3

Last week was the first workshop of our New Approaches to Evidence project (natevidence.blogs.uv.es/project/). We're very grateful to all the participants. See you next year. #philsci

The workshop New Approaches to Evidence: Perspectives on Evidential Pluralism starts today at @uv.es More info available at natevidence.blogs.uv.es/new-approach... #philsci

Hasta el 27 de marzo está abierta la convocatoria para solicitar un contrato de técnico superior de investigación en Valencia, asociado al proyecto NANESI que co-dirijo con Neri Marsili. Más info: 👇 www.uv.es/uvweb/servei...

Reseña de Pérez-González, S., Luque, V. y J. Gimeno-Simó (eds.), Karl Popper: Herencia y actualidad, Valencia: Universitat de València, 2024, 282 pp. Ignacio Madroñal doi.org/10.48160/185...

New on the Archive: Pérez-González, Saúl and Luque, Víctor J. (2025) Natural Selection, Mechanism, and Fitness: A Response to Wei. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 38 (4). pp. 269-278. ISSN 0269-8595 https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27996/

📢Job ad! Join us at Politecnico di Milano in an interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy of science and biomedical engineering on transitions from animal research, with a 3-years postdoc (submission deadline: 12 January 2026) www.meta.polimi.it/3-years-post.... #philsci #philsky #sts

A funded PhD position in philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving. At @helsinki.fi @tint-philosophy.bsky.social #philsci jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

🚨The call for the PhD contract is now open (until 07/11)! More info about the call: www.uv.es/uvweb/servic... More info about the project: natevidence.blogs.uv.es #PhilSci

Our project "New Approaches to Evidence: Theoretical and Practical Developments" (NATE) has been awarded funding by the Spanish Ministry! Over the next 3 years, we’ll host workshops, conferences, and even hire a PhD student at @vlc-lab.bsky.social . More details coming soon—stay tuned! #PhilSci

🎓 The 2024–25 academic year has been a period of growth and consolidation for the VlC Philosophy LAB. Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇 🙃A RT is always appreciated!

Our paper “Mapping the Communication of Science” (with V. Crupi) is already available in THEORIA We aim to illuminate and (partly) systematise the diversity of science communication doi.org/10.1387/theo... #PhilSci #SciComm

Great initiative!

Call for applications: 3 PhD Scholarships in social ontology / social cognition. Deadline: 9.06. 2025. The scholarships are funded by the University of Milan on the project The Normative Roots of Social Kinds”. More details can be found here: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Early career philosophers of science may be interested in this online series providing career advice organized by EPSA. I will also be speaking at the session discussing postdocs and tenure-track opportunities: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pablo García-Barranquero and I have just published OA a paper on SENS and HoA. We consider (some aspects of) their methodological and philosophical basis. #philsci #aging doi.org/10.1007/s105...

The Valencia Philosophy Lab is now on bsky! Follow us for news about events, calls, and publications. bsky.app/profile/vlc-...

Proposals for formalising evidence evaluation fascinate n disturb me. It's notable that a certain type of study strongly predicts policy success. But the key lesson from recent #philsci that evidence is only strong when you can *combine* different types of it into a robust theory of change.

Llamada para la Participación en el Premio al Mejor TFM 2023/24 de la SLMFCE. solofici.org/llamada-para...

Our paper (w/ Iranzo) “Evidence and Computer Simulations in Public Health” have just been published (OA). #philsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...