This week Issa Kohler-Hausmann of Yale is visiting for a workshop/ talk at the @hpscambridge.bsky.social Department Seminar series. I admire her research into how dominant econometric methods for detecting discrimination misunderstand the nature of ‘equal standing’. Scroll down for her abstract 👇🏻

Congratulations to PhD student @drzeshanqureshi.bsky.social, whose textbook 'Anti-Racist Medicine' was launched in Parliament. The book, co-created by Qureshi, is the first defining an anti-racist curriculum in medicine. He hopes it can help uphold the NHS fairness principle for all ethnic groups.

If you are planning to attend, the registration is open. We @hpscambridge.bsky.social are pouring our hearts into this conference and it will be amazing. Even though my own submission was not accepted! #philsci #philsky #hps #metascience

Stand by for some fresh #hps content!

Welcome @hpscambridge.bsky.social!

Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science are now on Bluesky! 🔭📚 @hpscambridge.bsky.social

Workshop announcement: Functions and Dysfunctions in Medicine and Psychiatry (11–12 June 2026 at @vlc-lab.bsky.social) with @moody-philosopher.bsky.social, Virginia Ballesteros, @harrif.bsky.social, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, @mjurjako.bsky.social, @hsherl.bsky.social, @emas-b.bsky.social and more.

My paper on disease has been accepted at Philosophy of Medicine! I argue that diseases form homeostatic property clusters: their underlying pathomechanisms cause clustering in their symptomatology, biological signature, response to treatments, and prognosis philpapers.org/rec/CANDAH

US colleagues in #philsci #sts #histsci #histmed, please encourage your students to consider the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Deadline for US residents is October 15th. They need to first apply for admission to the Department of HPS for MPhil or PhD (2026 entry) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...

‼️ Join #LSEPhilosophy! We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability Application deadline: 3 November 2025 More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs

Letter of the day (in the Times)

For anyone who might be interested in teaching my book on Leopold's land ethic: The Philosophers for Sustainability group has put together resources to use for teaching _The Land Is Our Community _. 1/n 🌱🐋 🌎 📗

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

Still time to submit at abstract for Climate, Emotion and Mental Health! August 14-15 at Cambridge HPS 🎓 Deadline this Friday @cambridgephilos.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social l #philsci #philsky #psychology #psychiatry #philmed #cogsci #climate

Still time to submit at abstract for Climate, Emotion and Mental Health! August 14-15 at Cambridge HPS 🎓 Deadline this Friday @cambridgephilos.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social l #philsci #philsky #psychology #psychiatry #philmed #cogsci #climate

Free in August and looking for a way to do even more philosophy? 🤔 Juliette Vazard and I are organising a workshop on Climate, Emotion and Mental Health - deadline 4th of July! ✍️

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

Check out this call for abstracts for a mid august workshop in Cambridge. The questions Harriet and Juliette are posing are so interesting and unusual #philsky #climate #mentalhealth #emotion

Free in August and looking for a way to do even more philosophy? 🤔 Juliette Vazard and I are organising a workshop on Climate, Emotion and Mental Health - deadline 4th of July! ✍️

My paper 'A Domino Theory of Disease' is out and available *open access* with Philosophy of Science! 🥳 @philscijournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Next year I will have two new colleagues. Ahmad Elabbar and Harriet Fagerberg are joining Cambridge HPS as Assistant Professors. What a huge honour and a privilege, congratulations to us all! Send us your postgrad applicants in all areas of #philsci #philmed, including ethics and politics of STEM.

One year ago we started a small online reading group on functions and now we have our first workshop on biological functions! Proud of the growing functions in philosophy network 💙 thanks to best co-organiser @harrif.bsky.social and @assemblinglife.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky

This week we are hosting a workshop on Biological functions organised by @frabellazzi.bsky.social and @harrif.bsky.social. Check out the program and get in touch if you want to attend remotely 🦋 www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis... In collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky

Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions. philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF

Can you believe we once lived alongside at least four other species of humans? I'm writing a whole book about it and still find it bewildering.

Still time to submit an abstract for the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable! 👇

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The Philosophy and Medicine Project at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social welcomes abstracts for the 2025 Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable - deadline 1st of February! ✍️ 🎓 www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosop...

The Philosophy and Medicine Project at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social welcomes abstracts for the 2025 Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable - deadline 1st of February! ✍️ 🎓 www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosop...

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

“Do we need to rethink biological functions?” With @jroloff.bsky.social & @frabellazzi.bsky.social, I respond to Dong & @gualtiero.bsky.social’s critique of the selected effects theory. We argue: Selection is inescapable! Part 1 now on @philosophyofbrains.com: philosophyofbrains.com/2024/12/10/s...

Reposting this text from last year again jeppssonphilosopherauthor.blogspot.com/2023/08/anti... inspired by @rwillowfish.bsky.social . There's plenty to criticize within or related to psychiatry. But also lots of problematic stuff within common criticisms.

CFA Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Kings College London June 2nd and 3rd Submit 500 word anonymized abstracts by Feb 1 for a talk slot, there will also be a poster session docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share #hps #philosophy #philosophyofmedicine

I have put together a starter pack of philosophers working on or with biological functions go.bsky.app/KW2mXWe Please let me know if I missed anyone. ☺️ #philpsy, #philsci, #philosophy, #philsky

here is a starter pack for academics working on #philosophy of #psychiatry. please tell me who I’m missing🤔. thanks and cheers🥳. go.bsky.app/GaNgDHt

"dammit Boorse! that definition involves a value judgement and you know it! turf to ethics."

Passing along a good starter pack for #Philosophy of #Science topics. #philsci #starter_pack courtesy of @samulireijula.bsky.social go.bsky.app/6Hoj6Sk Also check out the Feed (also PhilSci) from @markrubin.bsky.social - bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm trying to put together a history and philosophy of biology and medicine starter pack! Let me know who to add, including if that is you! go.bsky.app/UCbEmtj

I have a new paper on delusion which I'm very pleased to see published today, and open access too. I argue that monothematic delusions are best understood as beliefs formed in tricky (read: Millikanian abNormal) conditions, rather than as malfunctions of belief. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Enjoying Paris—and starting the first of four weekly lectures at the Collège de France on Monday

As CUP is slow with production at the moment, I am posting the manuscript of my recently accepted critique of the terminal anorexia diagnosis on PhilPapers. This is an important and distressing topic and I want this paper to be available. #philsky philpapers.org/rec/JEFTAT-3

Postgrad funding, especially for masters, is scarce. We are trying to maximise its availability and reach. Follow this link for info on a new HPS Futures Studentship for Widening Participation in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Deadline Dec 3rd, tell your students! #philsci #histsci

I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on the words 'objective' and 'subjective' until we can figure out what the hell is going on

Ever wondered what diseases are? 🤔 A Domino Theory of Disease is now forthcoming @philscijournal.bsky.social - preprint here! philpapers.org/rec/FAGADT #philsky #philsci

On the blog today, Harriet Fagerberg and Justin Garson discuss their new paper, which argues that the proper function of something is it's proximal function. When proximal functions aren't realised, that process is dysfunctional. #philsky imperfectcognitions....