Excellent. NOW let us think about how problems in education, with or without mental health issues, are correlated to offending. Think about how BORING prison is (frightening, too!), and how imaginative solutions are needed for educational deprivation inside @philosophyinprison.bsky.social

Super cool CFP for a SI of Synthese on Scientific Understanding and ML! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Short interview for That's TV York about AI and science! x.com/ThatsTVYork/...

I can't believe it! Super excited to start this project, and very grateful to the ERC for the vote of confidence!

This conference looks amazing, and in such an exciting place! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere... And there's still time to submit your abstracts (until Jan. 15)!

🚨 The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) seeks nominations for the 2026 Covey Award. The Covey Award recognizes senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy. #philtech limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/23...

Looking for an intro-friendly text on the impact of tech and AI on aesthetic life? Check out this chapter I wrote, just published in the new Routledge Introduction to Contemp Aesthetics by @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @lizscar.bsky.social philarchive.org/rec/CROALI #philtech #techethics

Tomorrow and Saturday in Tartu, there will be a conference on methods for studying imagination. Mike Stuart will be speaking about the use of qualitative methods. More here: filsem.ut.ee/en/news/work...

The very exciting Philosophy group at Wageningen University is hiring, encouraging applicants who take a philosophy of science in practice approach! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...

Today, Mike Stuart is speaking at a workshop in Vienna on Analogies, External Validity, and the Future of Experimental Modelling Across the Sciences. His talk is entitled "There's No Baby in that Bathwater: Rejecting Veritism for Philosophy of Science."

Super excited to have this paper with Sabine Winters finally finished! We argue for a new account of scientific progress, where progress is just increasing abilities. A lot of fun examples with space science and AI!

Tomorrow, Mike Stuart is speaking at the University of Aberdeen's philosophy colloquium. His talk is entitled "Imagination as epistemic firebrand." He argues that imagination presents an obstacle for veritist epistemologies of science, and sketches a radical alternative.

In a few hours, the conference "Imagination & Creativity in Scientific Practices" will begin, hosted by the University of Parma. Mike Stuart will be speaking there, arguing against the coherence (and usefulness) of the concept of fictional truth for epistemology of imagination.

This Friday in Luxembourg, Mike Stuart will be giving a talk entitled "Imagination as an icon in the anti-truth revolution."

Become a Visiting Fellow! Interested in joining the Center for Philosophy of Science? Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows! Postdoc applications will be available soon! More info about our programs available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/

Ann Johnson Institute Writing Retreat for #HPS & #STS scholars, 6-12 July 2026 at Ampersand Inn, Newton New Jersey. Theme is "Context of Discovery in Science & Technology", and the objective is project completion. 10 scholars will be selected. Applications due 17 November 2025 sc.edu/study/colleg...

Job: Full professor in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Deadline for applications is 17th September 2025. Contact Max Fochler or Sarah Davies (head and deputy head of the department) with enquiries about the role. #STS #HPS berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

When and how does AI help scientists gain understanding of the world? In a new paper, Mike Stuart develops an account of "pragmatic understanding" and argues that while AI can increase this kind of understanding in humans, it's unlikely to ever possess it itself. Read the full paper here: t.ly/EymHc

On Thursday, Mike Stuart will be speaking at the HKUST as part of a conference called "Explanation, Narrative, and Understanding in the Social Sciences." His talk is called "How to Mix Methods and Make Sense: Understanding as an Epistemological Framework for Social Scientists."

Today, Mike Stuart is presenting at the Asia Pacific Philosophy of Science biannual conference in Taipei. His paper is titled "Scientific Progress is Increasing Ability: AI and Space Science." appsa2025taiwan.mystrikingly.com

So excited to finally have something on pragmatic understanding published, especially in Phil Studies, especially on AI! Read the preprint here! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25492/

Senior Lecturer position in philosophy of science at the university of Vienna! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Society for the Philosophy of Science (www.sps-philoscience.org) Prize for Young Researchers (PhD or recent grad 2018 or later) for paper in philosophy of science, unpublished or published. Candidates must send an anonymized article by 30th April 2025 to [email protected] #philsci

This Wednesday, Mike Stuart is giving a talk at the YorRobots speaker seminar, entitled "Philosophy of Science Meets Robotics." More info here: www.york.ac.uk/yorrobots/ne...

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Tomorrow, a three day conference on imagination will begin at Notre Dame. Mike Stuart will be one of the keynote speakers. His talk aims to develop a pragmatist epistemology of scientific imagination. Learn more about the conference here! sites.nd.edu/hpstv-confer...

This is impressive. I wonder what the prompt was. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Such a good overview of something that desperately needed overviewing! @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

Mike Stuart will be giving a talk at the YorRobots & ISA Design and Verification Seminar on Wednesday, Feb 5th from 2-3pm at ISA 135. Title: Philosophy of science meets robotics. Abstract in the comments.

Later this week, on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 January, our newly established Radboud Center for Natural Philosophy will be officially launched, with an opening conference entitled Impossible Triangles of Thought: rcnp.science.ru.nl/events/launc... Talks can be followed online; see link on website.

Such an honour to be part of this special issue!!

A meditation on all the small, nearly unconscious tasks and motions that you go through doing lab work. These were just off the top of my head, and there are plenty more (additions encouraged in the comments!)

Hi all! I am a philosopher of biology & science communicator @univie.ac.at! My (re)posts mostly concern #evobio #philsci #philbio #scicomm #highered #metascience #cogsci #sciart & happenings #UniVienna (esp Rudolphina research mag) Maybe I'll allow myself to nerd over math & fabrics here as well.

The deadline for these two postdoc positions is approaching. One job for someone with expertise in evidence review and another for a philosopher of science:

Weekend spent to finish my slides for the PSA Biennial Meeting in New Orleans. My President’s Address will be on Sat 16th at 6pm on the topic of ‘Local Knowledges and the Right to Participate in Science’ — this is based on recent work I did with the UN for this report www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Coauthored paper alert led by the awesome Peter Vickers: “Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement PONE-D-24-22168R1”

💥 New: What the AI revolution means for the social sciences ✍️ LSE President and Vice Chancellor Larry Kramer argues we cannot avoid making choices about AI. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Can some scientists "imagine better" than others? What would that even mean? @drhannahsarge.bsky.social and I argue that imagination is all about breaking constraints, and imagining well is about being careful about which constraints you break, and how. t.ly/Aticr

What's up with the logo for the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science? I designed it, so let me give you a little tour. A thread 🧵 #CSHPS2024 #SCHPS2024 #congressh

In this paper I try my best to cover all the exciting xphi work that has been done on imagination and creativity, and give a wish-list of things that might be done next! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23798/

This is some of the most fun I've ever had writing a paper. So happy to have it come out open-access with EJPS. Epistemology-via-aesthetics and vice-versa ftw!

Delighted to be part of this special issue on qualitative methods used to study science (alongside superstars Nancy Nersessian, Sabina Leonelli, Rachel Ankeny, Lisa Osbeck, and others), commemorating Ian Mitroff's work on the moon landing. t.ly/1twvt

Lil blogpost on whether AI can imagine! junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/6/...

Evan Thompson’s talk series in Taiwan this June! phil.nycu.edu.tw/post-0213/ @evanthompson.bsky.social

Mike Stuart is introducing a new notion of abstraction for philosophy of science at the Centre for Philosophy of Science Quadrennial Conference! www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/quad-confere...

Mike Stuart will be in conversation with Rashaad Newsome at the Sainsbury Art Centre this Wednesday on the topic of imagination and AI in art. More info here! www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/art...

Cool new paper that replicates and expands on the work by Markus Kneer and me! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Roughly, we're seeing more empirical evidence that if you attribute mental properties to AI, you are also more likely to attribute responsibility to them.

On Thursday, Mike Stuart will be giving a talk at the University of Stockholm's Philosophy of Science Seminar, entitled "Scientific Understanding as Ability." He'll defend an account of understanding as the having of an ability (and being responsible for having that ability).

Our MA in Science, History and Society is recruiting! Various scholarships and bursaries are available -- listed here [https://tinyurl.com/hpsleeds-scholarships], as well as BSHS bursaries [https://www.bshs.org.uk/grants/masters-degree-bursaries]

This panel is part of a really cool new initiative for the Centre of Applied Social Research. Looking forward to it!