Check out the program in the thread! 🥳

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Huge thanks to @eenphilsci.bsky.social and especially @tmarvan.bsky.social and @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social for a terrific program — and what a treat the historical retrospective on the Vienna Circle and the profound legacies of Eastern European philosophy in the plenary panel! 🤩 many thanks all 👏

What a successful kick-off of the PSA around the World - Eastern Europe! So many super interesting talks. Kudos to @tmarvan.bsky.social, @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social, @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social for such a great job at organizing it! Looking forward to the next one on 14 Nov.

Listening to the first panel on history of #philsci in CEE. Inspiring that so many colleagues around the world tuned in. A wonderful first talk by Marta Sznajder on Janina Hosiasson (her heartbreaking story below). Now Angela Potochnik on the role of Marie Neurath (Reidemeister) in the Vienna Circle

Excited (and a bit daunted) to be part of a remarkable keynote lineup at Theoretical Rationality and Practical Reason conference at Sofia University next May. Abstract submissions are open until January 1, 2026. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Having lived in Germany during my PhD, I find it really difficult to disagree with Weiwei’s eloquent assessment. It’s hilariously on brand that they cancelled his piece. Still, there are many redeeming things about Berlin, even about its bureaucracy. hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

still time to register www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...

Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

The report of Dagstuhl Seminar 25142 "Explainability in Focus: Advancing Evaluation through Reusable Experiment Design" is now published as part of the periodical Dagstuhl Reports: drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc... Organized by: Simone Stumpf, Elizabeth Daly and Stefano Teso

Did a philosopher write this theconversation.com/studying-phi...

CFA: the 8th SURe workshop will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFiS PAN in Warsaw. Submission deadline: 20 January 2026. For more info visit: sure-workshop.weebly.com/current-work... @philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

Just published: Coherence as a Constraint on Scientific Inquiry, Synthese (with @martinjustin.bsky.social). TL,DR: coherence considerations can be good or bad in scientific inquiry. Our paper suggests how to determine when it is the former rather than the latter. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My paper with Kareem Khalifa "Does functional connectivity explain?" is now published in open access in Synthese: shorturl.at/vqOjq @philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social @danisbassett.bsky.social @nunetsi.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social

Didn’t expect to receive a hard copy of this volume. So satisfying to hold. An honour to philosophise alongside these wonderful thinkers. Here’s the link academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

It really is an amazing speech

Our paper "Large physics models: towards a collaborative approach with large language models and foundation models" is now published online! @philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social @henkderegt.bsky.social @lglopez.bsky.social

Italians and beyond: this week we launch Pianeta Lab in Modena and Bologna, an experimental space to give people a voice in developing technology & policies that affect our everyday lives. We need your help to get this off the ground! Please consider donating: www.ideaginger.it/progetti/pia...

The Philosophy of Science Association makes experts on various topics available for conversation with graduate students anywhere with its "Office Hour" program. Other associations should consider doing this.

My paper, with Kareem Khalifa, "Does Functional Connectivity Explain?" is accepted for publication in Synthese! @philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @natneuro.nature.com @nunetsi.bsky.social @danisbassett.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social

Couldn't agree more. Student evals never helped me teach better. What did help: reading + sharing with colleagues. In NL, evals even ask things unrelated to my teaching: 'Differences between students w/ respect to language proficiency don’t affect the quality of teaching in this course negatively?'

LMU’s Alyssa Ney joins Roger Penrose & Jacob Barandes to debate one of the biggest mysteries in quantum theory: the collapse of the wave function. 🔗 iai.tv/video/the-co...

The philosophical point was never that we don't have the same sensory experience, but that we could have different qualia from it. Philosophers argued, via modal epistemology that qualia can't be explained physically, hence the hard problem of consciousness. #hardproblem @davidchalmers.bsky.social

New letter to the Editors Caspar Jacobs, Against Presentist Velocities: Response to Gijsbers www.thebsps.org/letters/gijs... #philsci #philsky

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The 33rd round of our newsletter is available under the link: eenps.weebly.com/members-publ... ⭐

Petra Schumacher opens #ESPP2025 in Warsaw with her keynote lecture on meaning extension

Our paper "Large Physics Models: Towards a collaborative approach with Large Language Models and Foundation Models" has just been accepted for publication in THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C. It is a result of a workshop shorturl.at/6UbIW at @lorentzcenter.bsky.social, and is co-authored with:

You can now download a book of abstracts of ESPP 2025 (PDF or EPUB) here: espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/programme

Gabriel (@gabrieltarziu.bsky.social) and I are guest editing a topical collection for EJPS on Understanding Climate Change. Submissions on the epistemology of climate science, policy, and public reasoning are welcome. Deadline: 1 Dec 2025 → link.springer.com/collections/...

That guy in my class was the spitting image of this one in the pic.

Turns out studying philosophy is actually valuable. Philosophy majors don’t just argue well, they actually become better thinkers and do better on tests. Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.

I added the online programme for our ESPP 2025 website. You can customize your agenda and print it with your chosen talks :) espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/programme

"Immunology Meets Philosophy vol. 2" focuses on host-microbe interactions while highlighting a variety of conceptual approaches and phenomena, from infectious diseases to evolutionary and metabolic perspectives. #ImmunoSky #philbio #philsci On-site / online stream registration - link in comments 👇

SONG OF THE DAY LILA TIRANDO A VIOLETA x VERRACO - "AGUAS VIOLENTAS" FOR FANS OF: Eva01, Flagalova, Oklou

Registration is now open for Philosophy of Science Around the World 2025; waivers applicable www.philsci.org/psa_around_t... #psaaw25 #philsci @eenphilsci.bsky.social

Time to register for PSA AW 2025 with three online dates in November. Look forward to seeing many of you there! 👇

Breaking News: The UN’s top court called climate change an “existential threat” and said nations had legal obligations to act. It was the first time that the court has weighed in on climate change.

Congratulations to @davidpapineau.bsky.social and Hasok Chang, very well deserved!

Oi! la la: meet the new wave of French punks making noise

'Locke argued that linen manufacture ‘should not be put into the management of a Company’ because ‘the Greediness of gaine, occasions stock jobbing’.' David Armitage: Discovering a new manuscript by John Locke

Utterly embarrassing. In a culture where every official email ends with "I hope I have informed you sufficiently", I suppose they didn't. The reason why the number of highly educated people coming to the NL dropped by 39% in 2 years, is probably not the weather, food or social skills of the locals.

Save the dates of 18-19th of September 2026 for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference at the University of Bucharest!!! Please expect a call for abstracts in autumn 2025 with submissions due likely in winter 2026! eenps.weebly.com/eenps-2026.h...

Here’s a preview of the three thematic panels organized as part of the @philsci.bsky.social PSA Around the World 2025 conference, which puts a spotlight on Eastern and Central Europe. Stay tuned for the full conference programme. eenps.weebly.com/eenps-psa_aw... #philsci

"Last year, around 16,000 people came to the Netherlands on a highly skilled migrant visa, a decrease of 26% on 2023 and 39% on 2022." Hm, who knew this was going to happen: www.dutchnews.nl//2025/06/few...

We are happy to announce that we were able to make the ESPP conference fee a little more affordable (EUR 150). However, the membership fee was raised to EUR 60. The registration form will be open in the second half of June. espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/registration

@mokriegleder.bsky.social @sfink.bsky.social @epiphenomenal.bsky.social

Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient | Hanno Hauenstein

It's incredibly painful, not a relief, to recognize so many of my own experiences here. Brutality, cruelty, and dysfunction of academia are articulated so clearly. A must read.