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A few comments on Morgan and Morrison's "Models as Mediators" on my research blog "the Pragmatic Conception of Scientific Theories".
https://pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2025/03/non-review-of-models-as-mediators.html
pragmatictheories.blogspot.com(non-)Review of Models as Mediators Models as Mediators, edited by Mary Morgan and Margaret Morrison (so many Ms!), is a collective book from 1999 that has now become kind of ...
Our article "Probabilistic Empiricism" co-authored by me and M. Suárez will be published soon in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. It presents an inductive epistemology for objective probabilities, based on the notion of situation.
Pre-print available here:
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24924/
The NIH is failing Philosophy of Science 101 #philsci
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just when U think everything there is to know about cell biology is already known. And then they looked further. Interesting discovery. Understanding seems to be in the "let's throw every idea we can think of at the wall and see what sticks phase." #science #philsci
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our ...
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New paper out in Philosophy & Technology: “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs: Whose Culture, Whose Values, Whose Perspectives?” (Gonzales/Lohse/de Regt) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philtech
Lots of paywalled popular science articles in the #philsci feed. How about a policy that we only link OA content?
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Fresh from the press: a new chapter on the (short) history of Biolinguistics (the science that tries to uncover the biological basis of language).
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111293776-002/html#Harvard
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Mendívil-Giró, J. 2025. A short history of biolinguistics. In: Benítez-Burraco, A., Fernández López, I., Férnandez-Pérez, M. and Ivanova, O. ed. Biolinguistics at the Cutting Edge: Promises, Achievements, and Challenges. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 19-44. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111293776-002
De Gruyter · Chapter 1 A short history of biolinguisticsChapter 1 A short history of biolinguistics was published in Biolinguistics at the Cutting Edge on page 19.
I've recently seen several grant application reviews in philosophy of science where the reviewers come from the relevant discipline, but have no idea whatsoever of how research in philosophy works. They still somehow do the reviews and criticize these projects for reasons that are beyond the scope of philosophical projects (e.g., not doing EEG studies in a project about the *history* of EEG). It's so sad not only to see these reviews, but to see that grant boards are approving them and using them to select funding. It's a huge problem if one wants to do interdisciplinary philosophy of science.
Patrick Suppes was born OTD in 1922.
One of the great 20th century philosophers of science, Pat was an early critic of the semantic conception of theories, believing that theories are best conceived as sets of models.
He was also accomplished in both empirical science and business.
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This week end at the Center for philosophy of science! #philsci
I'm very happy to share that my manuscript "Cultural variation of emotions and radical relativism" has been accepted for publication in Theory & Psychology. Thanks to the reviewers who helped a lot with this manuscript, and I can't wait to see it in its published form. For now, here's the preprint if you want to check it out.
The Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to our upcoming online only lecture on YouTube at www.youtube.com/channel/UCrR... or you can join with Zoom at pitt.zoom.us/j/92701773861 Featured Former Fellow - Vera Matarese Tuesday, March 18th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT #philsci
Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP 
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Introducing the research of IS...
www.ru.nlIntroducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP | Radboud UniversityRecently, the Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy (RCNP) officially started its mission to conduct research at the intersection of mathematical physics, philosophy of physics, and history of physics. Several members of ISiS are involved.
“If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”
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John McPhee was born OTD in 1931.
“We are surrounded with people who think that what we have been doing for that one-fortieth of a second can go on indefinitely. They are considered normal, but they are stark, raving mad.”
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