@scitechnews.bsky.social
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation.
#hps #philsci
First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation.
#hps #philsci
A science-first theory of confirmation - Metascience
Metascience -
link.springer.com
April 10, 2026 at 6:07 PM
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation.
#hps #philsci
First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation.
#hps #philsci
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New BJPS Short Read!
Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure
www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...
#philsci #philsky
Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure
www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...
#philsci #philsky
Why Does Causal Reasoning Work? | BJPS Short Reads
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure
www.thebsps.org
March 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM
New BJPS Short Read!
Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure
www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...
#philsci #philsky
Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure
www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...
#philsci #philsky
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#HPS 🧪
Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest:
reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...
reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...
“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business”
The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.
reckoningscience.org
March 25, 2026 at 4:49 PM
#HPS 🧪
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I got to welcome @saraseager.bsky.social—one of the world's leading astrobiologists—to my St. Mike's course: Aliens & The Heavens! My students drove a lively Q&A about exoplanets, funding, and definitions of life.👽🌌 #astrobiology #academicsky #hps 🐋🌱 @utoronto.ca @ustmikes.bsky.social
March 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I got to welcome @saraseager.bsky.social—one of the world's leading astrobiologists—to my St. Mike's course: Aliens & The Heavens! My students drove a lively Q&A about exoplanets, funding, and definitions of life.👽🌌 #astrobiology #academicsky #hps 🐋🌱 @utoronto.ca @ustmikes.bsky.social
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Just accepted:
Cognitive Bias in Large Language Models: A Vindicatory Approach
– David Thorstad
Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
Cognitive Bias in Large Language Models: A Vindicatory Approach
– David Thorstad
Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
March 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Just accepted:
Cognitive Bias in Large Language Models: A Vindicatory Approach
– David Thorstad
Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
Cognitive Bias in Large Language Models: A Vindicatory Approach
– David Thorstad
Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
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Models of science focus on how scientific agents/activities reach solutions or produce discoveries. I think this is why they're often so useless at actually explaining how science does what it does. We need to understand how science generates problems because that's exactly where it excels.
March 20, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Models of science focus on how scientific agents/activities reach solutions or produce discoveries. I think this is why they're often so useless at actually explaining how science does what it does. We need to understand how science generates problems because that's exactly where it excels.
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We treat language as a neutral tool for describing reality, but what if it's actually creating it? | https://bit.ly/4uxxAjd
Neuroscientist Jeremy Skipper argues that language itself is an altered state of consciousness, and only by losing it can we see the world as it really is.
#philsci #cogsci
Neuroscientist Jeremy Skipper argues that language itself is an altered state of consciousness, and only by losing it can we see the world as it really is.
#philsci #cogsci
Language creates an altered state of consciousness
<p><em>We tend to think of language as a transparent tool—a neutral medium for expressing thoughts and describing reality. While philosophers have (more or less) come to agree that “the map is not the...
iai.tv
March 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM
We treat language as a neutral tool for describing reality, but what if it's actually creating it? | https://bit.ly/4uxxAjd
Neuroscientist Jeremy Skipper argues that language itself is an altered state of consciousness, and only by losing it can we see the world as it really is.
#philsci #cogsci
Neuroscientist Jeremy Skipper argues that language itself is an altered state of consciousness, and only by losing it can we see the world as it really is.
#philsci #cogsci
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Since I forgot to post it, here's a paper I wrote on predictive processing, structure-function mappings in the brain, and why their relationship is more complicated than you might have thought #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Structure and function in the predictive brain - Biology & Philosophy
Predictive processing is an ambitious neurocomputational framework, offering an unified explanation of all cognitive processes in terms of a single computational operation, namely prediction error min...
link.springer.com
March 16, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Since I forgot to post it, here's a paper I wrote on predictive processing, structure-function mappings in the brain, and why their relationship is more complicated than you might have thought #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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though Popper was no fan of religion, i think his falsificationism carves out space for important explanations of our reality that are nonetheless non-scientific (contra the positivists). he wasn't opposed to hermeneutic projects, he just didn't think they were science.
#philosophy #philsci
#philosophy #philsci
March 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
though Popper was no fan of religion, i think his falsificationism carves out space for important explanations of our reality that are nonetheless non-scientific (contra the positivists). he wasn't opposed to hermeneutic projects, he just didn't think they were science.
#philosophy #philsci
#philosophy #philsci
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We may understand the relationship between “philosophy” and “science” in two ways: first, inasmuch as philosophy itself is a science, of a certain kind; and second, how philosophy as a science stands relative to “science” in the modern sense. bit.ly/philsci2025
March 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM
We may understand the relationship between “philosophy” and “science” in two ways: first, inasmuch as philosophy itself is a science, of a certain kind; and second, how philosophy as a science stands relative to “science” in the modern sense. bit.ly/philsci2025
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TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive
🧪 #philsci
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
🧪 #philsci
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com
March 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive
🧪 #philsci
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
🧪 #philsci
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Who owns our knowledge? This is the theme of the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship today, for which I am honored to deliver the opening keynote on the relation between Open Science and #AI - Programme: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #philsci
openaccess.ox.ac.uk
March 2, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Who owns our knowledge? This is the theme of the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship today, for which I am honored to deliver the opening keynote on the relation between Open Science and #AI - Programme: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #philsci