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July 21, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Al Wilson introduces the second keynote of #BSPS2026: Eleanor Knox, ‘The Scale and Context-Relativity of Spacetime Structure’
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July 23, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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The first keynote of #BSPS2026 comes from Tarja Knuuttila, ‘Revisiting Artefactualism: The Model-Target coupling Displaced’
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July 22, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Before things kick off officially at #BSPS2026, Adrian Currie explains the attack on philosophy (among others) happening at Exeter (among others). Rousing speech followed by big applause #DefendExeterUni
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July 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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If you are at #BSPS2026, join us this afternoon for our Ask the Editors session (dogs not included, alas)...
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If you are at the #BSPS2026 conference next week, join us for our ask the editors’ session, and learn the one weird trick to getting published*

*write good

(Pictured: Behind the scenes at BJPS Towers with Matilda from marketing and our newest intern, Archie)
July 22, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Ex-president James Ladyman introduces current president Robin Hendry, who will deliver the BSPS Presidential Address #bsps2026 #philsci #philsky
July 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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I will present my research on lab-zoo interactions at the conference of British Society for the Philosophy of Science in Leeds! (phil bio session on Thursday morning) #BSPS2026
July 21, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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And our glorious leader Robin Hendry takes to the lectern to deliver his address, ‘Metaphysics and Science: A Call for History’ #bsps2026 #philsci #philsky
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July 21, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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If you are at the #BSPS2026 conference next week, join us for our ask the editors’ session, and learn the one weird trick to getting published*

*write good

(Pictured: Behind the scenes at BJPS Towers with Matilda from marketing and our newest intern, Archie)
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July 16, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Celso Neto on Typological Thinking in Population Biology
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July 23, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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ICYMI: We were at the #BSPS2026 Conference! 🎉 Our members presented and chaired sessions covering a range of topics, including residential mobility, fertility and reproductive health, and ethnic and health inequalities. A great few days of exchanging ideas and catching up with colleagues!
September 24, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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🛫🛄MPIDR on Tour: We are happy to join the Annual Conference of the British Society for Population Studies at the University of Kent from today until Thursday.
Our colleagues are looking forward to presenting and discussing their research. Jose Andrade Ana Cris GUV Elena Pojman #BSPS2026
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September 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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July 22, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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#BSPS2026 Population Studies conference all for papers closes 17 April - submit your work on ageing, fertility, mortality, and so much more at : www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Canterbury, 8-10 September 2026 #womenshealth #climatechange #family #homelessness #migration #methods #sexuality #patriarchy
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April 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Next up will Tarja Knuuttila, 'Revisiting Artefactualism: The Model-Target Coupling Displaced'

Abstract in alt text and livestream link here:
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BSPS Keynote 11.30am, Wednesday 22 July (UK time) Tarja Knuuttila, 'Revisiting Artefactualism: The Model–Target Coupling Displaced' ABSTRACT. Models are epistemic artefacts, constructed and put to many uses, including understanding, prediction, data mining, and design. In many cases, the key to their epistemic value is erotetic: they are built to address pending theoretical or empirical questions, and that is where their epistemic value lies, not in a model’s correspondence to a determinable real-world target system. I defend this thesis and dispel a double bind in the account’s recent reception. It has been claimed, on the one hand, that the artefactual account is covertly representational and, on the other hand, that as a non-representational account, it cannot supply the content that property attribution and model-world comparison require. These charges pull in opposite directions and cannot both land. The artefactual account does attribute content to models, located in the interpreted representational modes and media used in their construction, but does not assume that the epistemic value of models is due to the representational relationship between model and target. Artefactualism stays neutral between different theories of representation, though closer to deflationary, inferentialist accounts. No longer organised around the model-target relation as its unit of analysis, the account clarifies the use of cross-domain model templates, the modal reach of modelling, and models without determinable targets, such as large language models and synthetic models.
July 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Last, but most definitely not least, Eleanor Knox delivers her keynote talk, 'The Scale and Context-Relativity of Spacetime Structure', at 11.30am, Thursday 23 July (UK time)

Abstract in alt text and livestream link here:
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BSPS Keynote 11.30am, Thursday 23 July (UK time) Eleanor Knox, 'The Scale and Context-Relativity of Spacetime Structure' ABSTRACT. Many theories of quantum gravity appear to imply that the spacetime of general relativity will be effective or emergent. This talk explores the consequences of such a view, and argues that, on any plausible account on which general relativistic spacetime emerges, other relativistic and non-relativistic spacetime structures will emerge in relevant contexts and at relevant scales. This has surprising and under-appreciated consequences—for example, that, at certain scales, binary black holes live in Newtonian spacetime.
July 9, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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How can researchers turn rigorous admin data analysis into real-world policy impact? At #BSPS2026, ADR UK and ADR Scotland's session explored the tools needed to bridge the gap between policy relevance and influence.

Read our workshop presenters' reflections:
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September 29, 2026 at 1:48 PM