Against “Epistemic Injustice” #philsky #philosophy #epistemology

This will be an extraordinary volume.

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

New on the Archive: Simons, Massimiliano (2025) Political philosophy of experimentation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 15. ISSN 1879-4912 https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27381/

New on the Archive: Simons, Massimiliano (2026) What is the history of philosophy of experimentation a history of? The cases of Hugo Dingler and Gaston Bachelard. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27380/

Heel interessant stuk over de rol van wetenschappers en experten in het publiek debat - zowel de rol die ze daarin zelf opnemen als die hen door anderen (journalisten, het publiek) wordt toegedicht. www.standaard.be/opinies/de-p...

En voor het onderscheid tussen een expert en een wetenschapper, in het licht van de publieke opinievorming, verwijs ik altijd heel graag naar dit stuk van @masssimons.bsky.social www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/e...

‘Tis the season to read “Father Christmas Executed” by Claude Lévi-Strauss! varenne.tc.columbia.edu/texts/levstc...

Come join our department! 🚨 Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky Feel free to reach out to me with questions! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

📢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

Come join our department! 🚨 Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky Feel free to reach out to me with questions! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

2026 summer #fellowships & #internships for #PhD students and also those graduating. Locations include US, UK, Thailand, Brazil, Remote, etc. Most deadlines in Dec and Jan. Most available for international students. Please share for visibility. Also comment if you know of any internships. 🧵

This goes high on my reading list #philsci

You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers! #philsci #hps

Join us tomorrow for the last Brown Bag seminar of 2025! @gregorboes.bsky.social will present his new FWO project, which brings together the phenomenological & analytic philosophy of science traditions of thinking about scientific representation 👇 research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/pr... #philsci #HPS

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The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is hiring two post-doctoral researchers to work on a project on the logic of reasons, under the supervision of Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language. More info below: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7... #postdoc #philosophy

Very please to find this on my doormat #MichelSerres With thanks to @aldohouterman.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Continuing my journey through empiricisms, now with the great book by David Lapoujade on William James' radical empiricism. This is the book that 'converted' Latour to James and pragmatism #philsci

A little personal, but here's a new post about Imposter Syndrome. I've dealt with it for years and none of the usual advice worked. Then I realized it behaves like a conspiracy theory – and that insight changed how I relate to it. Check it out here! open.substack.com/pub/kylevo/p...

Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky

Please help share this vacancy for a 4-year postdoc in Disinformation and European Democracy at Maastricht University #Polisky #EUsky #Commsky #Academicsky

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Tech news you can use from @theonion.com.

This weekend (December 6th) we celebrate Peter-Paul Verbeek's birthday. 1/

Just finished this, another great recent introduction to logical empiricism, The Vienna Circle by Sahotra Sarkar. Very accessible, but also goes into the technical bits regularly #jesuispositivist #philsci

I am very pleased to share I will be returning to Maastricht University, my alma mater, to give a public talk on my book 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (Hurst/Oxford). When: Monday 19 January, 20:00 Where: Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6 www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/events/pr...

This is a legitimate point, but I do hate the ways they use positivism as a label for these things, a philosophy that deserves better

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

OTD in 2002, Ivan Illich died. A radical social critic and philosopher, Illich offered one of the most distinctive and influential critiques of modern technology in the 20th century. 1/

Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

Delighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social

This is my last post in the 'metaphors for AI' trilogy. I never thought there was so much to say about it all. But this is it for now! Comments welcome. #AI #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/28/o...

Pleased to announce that this week the Michel Serres theme issue of Wijsgerig Perspectief will be published, with contributions from @masssimons.bsky.social, René ten Bos, Maria Karssenberg and myself.

Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science. 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome). Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...

Who was Ferdinand Gonseth? If you want Ties van Gemert and me talk about this half-forgotten Swiss philosopher of science and what role he played in 20C #philsci, you can join online! This Wednesday! sigma.mathsworlds.org/activities/s...

COLUMN - "In de wetenschap is er vaak verzet tegen het herzien van heldenstatussen. Die spanning kwam ook terug in de Epstein-files", schrijft @masssimons.bsky.social. #Epsteinfiles #Wetenschap #Heldenstatus #Seksisme www.observantonline.nl/Home/Artikel...

Pour les aficionados du patrimoine scientifique …. La Tribune de Genève du jour

Opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with a preferred focus on water issues: 👇 #HistSTM

For the next two days, I will be at 'The human phenomenon. Plessner's crossroads' conference in Cologne, talking about Helmuth Plessner's reception history in Dutch philosophy of technology and science #hopot #hopos #philsci #philtech philevents.org/event/show/1...

Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performativity in Science: Past and Future in Philosophy Compass. doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

I will be at this great conference in Brussels on Arendt and philosophy of technology for the next few days #philtech ethu.research.vub.be/conference-c...

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

And and Endowed Chair in History of Technology (nice salary) at UC Irvine, due Dec 1. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897

A couple of job postings in the #histSTM #histsci #histmed realm: Asst Prof in Social Studies of Medicine at Cambridge, due Nov 17. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Three new funded #DoctoralPositions in the International Max Planck School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities!" 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez #HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci

Join us next year in Leuven for the workshop "Histories of Scholarly Evaluation, 1700–2000." Deadline for abstracts: 31 Jan 2026. hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...