“Higher-order uncertainty at the end of inquiry”, new paper out in Episteme: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

☝️📢 Mañana a las 13 h (Argentina) / 17 h (España), @susanamonso.com y Laura Danón darán una charla online titulada: “¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes” en @grupoanfibio.bsky.social 💻Para participar: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New publication alert! 🚨 José Antonio Pérez Escobar (aka JAPE), the spiritual guide of METIS PhD students, has just published in EJPS! “The making of a mathematical notion by analogy: the case of Hamiltonicity of (locally finite) infinite graphs” 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) and Cristian Saborido. More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...

In my experience, those who use the expression "all things considered" often overlook some key point.

🟢This Thursday the 27th, our METIS member @ignasigil.bsky.social will talk about “The Epistemic and Zetetic Irrationality of Incessant Checking in OCD” at the SEFA 2025 Postgraduate Congress. More info: www.sefaweb.es/programacps/

Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference 💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes" 💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"

📢 Call for expressions of interest The METIS Group (UNED, Madrid) welcomes researchers interested in applying to the Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship with our support. ➡️ Send CV + 400-word project summary. ⏰ Deadline: 20 Nov 2025. Questions? Feel free to contact us. blogs.uned.es/metis/

📢 ¡Vuelve el Seminario de doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS! 🗣️12 sesiones donde doctorandxs comparten sus investigaciones. 🕓Miércoles, 16h (CEST/CET) | Formato híbrido 👥Coord.: @jsramos.bsky.social (UNED) y Turad Miguel Turad (UCM) 📅Programa completo: blogs.uned.es/metis/semina...

Si esto es verdad, será lamarck de interesante.

Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan. Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚

The XI SEFA Congress starts! We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.

👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026! Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵

Reviewer 3

(For Spanish-speaking PhD students in philosophy) 📢🚨 Call for abstrats para aquellxs que estéis haciendo un doctorado en filosofía de la ciencia, epistemología, filosofía de la mente, filosofía del lenguaje, metafísica analítica, lógica o áreas afines. (Hilo🧵⬇️)

📣Call for papers! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

At EPSA2025, María Jiménez Buedo (@mjbuedo.bsky.social), co-chair of the Women’s Caucus, had the privilege to organize a tribute to Helen De Cruz (1978–2025), with contributions from Kent Staley (St. Louis University), Azita Chellappoo (Open University), & Liam Bright (LSE). helendecruz.net

September 📚 🏫 In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵

I’m making my debut as an admin of @metisuned.bsky.social and would like to invite you to follow us! We’re a very active research group, with events and activities happening every week, many of which you can follow online. If you’re interested in philosophy, don’t miss out!

🔷 METIS has a new social media team! 🚀 From now on, we will be behind the keyboard: Ignasi @ignasigil.bsky.social & Marco @raciondeser.bsky.social We will continue to share the work, ideas, activity and good humour that make METIS what it is. Stay tuned! 📚

When I gave my first PhD writing to one of my supervisors, a philosopher, he told me, 'Alex, you write like a philosopher.' I assumed it was a compliment. It wasn't.

Cerramos el curso con alegría y muchas razones para celebrar. Gracias a todas las personas que hacen posible METIS, chin chin y larga vida! ✨ ¡Seguimos!

🎉 Después de tres días fantásticos, termina el VI Congreso de Postgrado de la SLMFCE. 🙏 Gracias a las personas que lo han hecho posible: ponentes, comentaristas, organizadores, asistentes y a toda la comunidad que no deja de crecer. ¡Nos vemos en próximos encuentros!

👋✨Our PhD students, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Laura Delgado-Verges, and Ignasi Gil (@ignasigil.bsky.social), will be giving talks at the upcoming VI SLMFCE Graduate Conference, which will be held at UNED (Madrid) from the 23rd to the 25th.

👋📜 NEW PAPER !! 👥 My colleague JAPE (known as José Antonio Pérez-Escobar) and Jordi Fairhurst coauthor this paper on 'Hinging Prejudices and Stereotypes in Mathematics'. 📍Just published in: Topoi. 🔗 LINK: doi.org/10.1007/s112... #philosophy #philsci #philmath

👋🏽 Next Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 11:30 (CET), join us at the METIS seminar for the talk by Ignasi Gil on "Incessant checking is epistemically flawless (but might be zetetically criticisable)" ➡️https://blogs.uned.es/metis/seminar/ignasi-gil/

The program for the VI SLMFCE Graduate Conference (@slmfce.bsky.social) is out! I'll be giving a talk titled 'Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials: Expanding Evidential Horizons in Distributive Policy Evaluation'. See you in late June!

Los datos que señalan que vamos a una economía de herederos como la de principios del siglo XX👇 El peso de las herencias de viviendas y del resto de inmuebles (fincas rústicas, solares...) en el PIB de España alcanza máximos no vistos desde la Primera Guerra Mundial: más del 3% eldiario.es/1_b94e3b

📣 Ernest Sosa (Rutgers) is the invited professor for this year's seminar course for our PhD students. @logos-group.bsky.social The course will focus on his new book, "Dawning Light Epistemology and Domains of Trust". @biap.bsky.social y.social 👇 aphil.ub.edu/news/phd-sem...