Daniel Kostic
@danielkostic.bsky.social
Philosopher working on theories of explanation, understanding consciousness and AI (http://daniel-kostic.weebly.com).
One half of KOKHA (https://kokha.bandcamp.com/album/mental-health)
One half of KOKHA (https://kokha.bandcamp.com/album/mental-health)
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Daniel Kostic
@danielkostic.bsky.social
· Jan 31
2025 Summer School — SMS
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2025 Summer School of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, will feature a stream on Topological Explanations, run by myself and Jim Woodward, & @jackiesullivan.bsky.social and Muhammad Ali Khalidi's stream on Psychiatric Kinds and Natural Kinds. More info: socmetsci.org/2025-summer-...
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Our director, Edouard Machery has just published a new on book on the concepts of health and disease. You can download it for free for two weeks at
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/health-and-disease/275DD294A0657AE0A4E12B710677A051
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/health-and-disease/275DD294A0657AE0A4E12B710677A051
January 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Our director, Edouard Machery has just published a new on book on the concepts of health and disease. You can download it for free for two weeks at
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/health-and-disease/275DD294A0657AE0A4E12B710677A051
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/health-and-disease/275DD294A0657AE0A4E12B710677A051
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✨Reminder✨ The symposia deadline for PSA 2026 is 15 January (this Thursday!)
Submissions for PSA 2026 in San Diego are now open! ☀️ Link and deadlines below
Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026
psa26.oa-event.com/c...
Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026
psa26.oa-event.com/c...
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
✨Reminder✨ The symposia deadline for PSA 2026 is 15 January (this Thursday!)
Final CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw.
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
Current Workshop
CFA: 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop Call for abstracts We invite authors to submit abstracts of up to 750-words for the upcoming...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Final CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw.
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
Call for Participation: Brain and Organisms: Neuroscience Beyond Computation, which will take place 16–20 March 2026 at the Lorentz Center@omega in Leiden.
Registration required.
More info: www.lorentzcenter.nl/brain-and-or...
@philsci.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org
Registration required.
More info: www.lorentzcenter.nl/brain-and-or...
@philsci.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Call for Participation: Brain and Organisms: Neuroscience Beyond Computation, which will take place 16–20 March 2026 at the Lorentz Center@omega in Leiden.
Registration required.
More info: www.lorentzcenter.nl/brain-and-or...
@philsci.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org
Registration required.
More info: www.lorentzcenter.nl/brain-and-or...
@philsci.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org
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Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy
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
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December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy
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@boruttrpin.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Philosophical Quarterly. We had both written on how inference to the best explanation could work with uncertain evidence. So we teamed up to test some suggestions for how to do that using computer simulations: academic.oup.com/pq/article/d...
Testing abductions from uncertain evidence
Abstract. Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) is traditionally conceived of as a rule of inference, in which one infers to the hypothesis that provides
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December 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@boruttrpin.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Philosophical Quarterly. We had both written on how inference to the best explanation could work with uncertain evidence. So we teamed up to test some suggestions for how to do that using computer simulations: academic.oup.com/pq/article/d...
Today I read one of the most beautiful poems in @andreagibson.bsky.social 's book "Pansy". It's called "A LETTER TO MY DOG EXPLORING THE HUMAN CONDITION".
Here is Andrea performing it: youtu.be/SMeTA9-zMuk?...
Here is Andrea performing it: youtu.be/SMeTA9-zMuk?...
A LETTER TO MY DOG, EXPLORING THE HUMAN CONDITION
YouTube video by Andrea Gibson
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December 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today I read one of the most beautiful poems in @andreagibson.bsky.social 's book "Pansy". It's called "A LETTER TO MY DOG EXPLORING THE HUMAN CONDITION".
Here is Andrea performing it: youtu.be/SMeTA9-zMuk?...
Here is Andrea performing it: youtu.be/SMeTA9-zMuk?...
That's very thoughtful. It always bothered me when I saw posts like that. It felt almost cynical, as if it was up to me. What made it worse was that when I applied for those jobs, I was often ghosted, or in the NL, got rejection letters from HR, not the one who posted, that were horrendously blunt.
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
That's very thoughtful. It always bothered me when I saw posts like that. It felt almost cynical, as if it was up to me. What made it worse was that when I applied for those jobs, I was often ghosted, or in the NL, got rejection letters from HR, not the one who posted, that were horrendously blunt.
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A short explainer of our key findings on the discrimination of people displaced from Ukraine in jobcentres (in German): www.instagram.com/reel/DSXGvil...
Antidiskriminierungsstelle on Instagram: "Unsere neue Studie zeigt: Menschen aus Osteuropa erleben in Jobcentern häufig Diskriminierungen. Aleksandra Lewicki, die die Studie gemeinsam mit Jannis Panag...
120 likes, 7 comments - ads_bund on December 17, 2025: "Unsere neue Studie zeigt: Menschen aus Osteuropa erleben in Jobcentern häufig Diskriminierungen. Aleksandra Lewicki, die die Studie gemeinsam mi...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A short explainer of our key findings on the discrimination of people displaced from Ukraine in jobcentres (in German): www.instagram.com/reel/DSXGvil...
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
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History and Philosophy of Science conference in Hong Kong (June 2026), at which I will be one of the keynotes
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#HPS, #&HPS
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#HPS, #&HPS
HPS26 - Yafeng Shan
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December 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
History and Philosophy of Science conference in Hong Kong (June 2026), at which I will be one of the keynotes
www.shanyafeng.com/hps26
#HPS, #&HPS
www.shanyafeng.com/hps26
#HPS, #&HPS
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Between 1 and 4 September 2026, the #SOCRATESgroup at Leibniz University Hannover will host an interdisciplinary summer school on "Bridging the Gap: Science, Trust, and the Climate Crisis." We would be very grateful if you could share the call:
www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-even...
www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-even...
SOCRATES Summer School 2026
On September 1-4, the SOCRATES group – Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge and Science-Based Information – is hosting its Summer School 2026 on Bridging the Gap: Science, T...
www.socrates.uni-hannover.de
December 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Between 1 and 4 September 2026, the #SOCRATESgroup at Leibniz University Hannover will host an interdisciplinary summer school on "Bridging the Gap: Science, Trust, and the Climate Crisis." We would be very grateful if you could share the call:
www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-even...
www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-even...
2nd CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw.
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
Current Workshop
CFA: 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop Call for abstracts We invite authors to submit abstracts of up to 750-words for the upcoming...
shorturl.at
December 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
2nd CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw.
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
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OUT NOW! Our findings on institutional discrimination of people from the east of Europe in German jobcentres (in German) - with @hcpetersen.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Jure Leko, funded by @beauftragte.bsky.social: www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/a...
Menschen aus Osteuropa werden beim Bürgergeld diskriminiert
Benachteiligungen gegenüber Menschen mit osteuropäischer Migrationsbiografie erschweren den Zugang zu Arbeit und Sozialleistungen erheblich
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December 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
OUT NOW! Our findings on institutional discrimination of people from the east of Europe in German jobcentres (in German) - with @hcpetersen.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Jure Leko, funded by @beauftragte.bsky.social: www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/a...
People from Eastern Europe often experience discrimination in job centres in Germany.
"According to a study (by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and colleagues), Ukrainian refugees are accused of social tourism in job centres. As a result, they are prematurely pushed into low-wage jobs."
"According to a study (by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and colleagues), Ukrainian refugees are accused of social tourism in job centres. As a result, they are prematurely pushed into low-wage jobs."
"Menschen aus Osteuropa erleben in Jobcentern häufig Diskriminierung" @zeit.de berichtet exklusiv über unsere neue von der @beauftragte.bsky.social geförderte Studie. Danke für die Zusammenarbeit @hcpetersen.bsky.social @japvie81.bsky.social und Jure Leko) : www.zeit.de/arbeit/2025-...
Antislawismus: Menschen aus Osteuropa erleben in Jobcentern häufig Diskriminierung
Ukrainischen Geflüchteten wird einer Studie zufolge in Jobcentern Sozialtourismus unterstellt. Die Folge: Sie werden vorschnell in Niedriglohnjobs gedrängt.
www.zeit.de
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
People from Eastern Europe often experience discrimination in job centres in Germany.
"According to a study (by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and colleagues), Ukrainian refugees are accused of social tourism in job centres. As a result, they are prematurely pushed into low-wage jobs."
"According to a study (by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and colleagues), Ukrainian refugees are accused of social tourism in job centres. As a result, they are prematurely pushed into low-wage jobs."
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin
In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
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Teach neuroscience to undergrads? Learn how to incorporate our connectomics data into your courses!
🗓️ July 23-24
🛫 Travel funds available
⏳ Apply by Feb. 2. https://alleninstitute.org/events/incorporating-open-connectomics-data-into-teaching-neuroscience/
🗓️ July 23-24
🛫 Travel funds available
⏳ Apply by Feb. 2. https://alleninstitute.org/events/incorporating-open-connectomics-data-into-teaching-neuroscience/
Incorporating open connectomics data into teaching neuroscience
Learn to analyze open neuroscience data and introduce dry lab modules into your existing classes at the Incorporating Open Connectomics data into...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Teach neuroscience to undergrads? Learn how to incorporate our connectomics data into your courses!
🗓️ July 23-24
🛫 Travel funds available
⏳ Apply by Feb. 2. https://alleninstitute.org/events/incorporating-open-connectomics-data-into-teaching-neuroscience/
🗓️ July 23-24
🛫 Travel funds available
⏳ Apply by Feb. 2. https://alleninstitute.org/events/incorporating-open-connectomics-data-into-teaching-neuroscience/
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In German: an explainer of structural patterns of East-West inequalities in Europe & how they underwrite the regulation of mobility to Germany - a country that has systematically recruited „cheap labour“ from its eastern neighbours. Thanks @bpb.de & @ostklick.bsky.social: www.bpb.de/mediathek/vi...
Was ist Antislawismus? | bpb.de
Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Politikwissenschaftlerin Dr. Aleksandra Lewicki erläutert in diesem Videointerview, was es mit dem Begriff Antislawismus auf sich hat.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In German: an explainer of structural patterns of East-West inequalities in Europe & how they underwrite the regulation of mobility to Germany - a country that has systematically recruited „cheap labour“ from its eastern neighbours. Thanks @bpb.de & @ostklick.bsky.social: www.bpb.de/mediathek/vi...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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The deadline for the EJPS TC "Understanding Climate Change: A Multifaceted Inquiry" which Gabriel Târziu and I are guest editing has been extended to
*March 1, 2026.*
Consider submitting a paper if your research fits our call and please share the info!
More info: link.springer.com/collections/...
*March 1, 2026.*
Consider submitting a paper if your research fits our call and please share the info!
More info: link.springer.com/collections/...
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The deadline for the EJPS TC "Understanding Climate Change: A Multifaceted Inquiry" which Gabriel Târziu and I are guest editing has been extended to
*March 1, 2026.*
Consider submitting a paper if your research fits our call and please share the info!
More info: link.springer.com/collections/...
*March 1, 2026.*
Consider submitting a paper if your research fits our call and please share the info!
More info: link.springer.com/collections/...
It is indeed gut-wrenching.
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It is indeed gut-wrenching.
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The Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be hosting its 11th Annual Conference, in person at University of Toronto, 25th-27th May, 2026. socmetsci.org/2026 #philsci Papers can be on any aspect of the metaphysics of science, broadly construed.
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be hosting its 11th Annual Conference, in person at University of Toronto, 25th-27th May, 2026. socmetsci.org/2026 #philsci Papers can be on any aspect of the metaphysics of science, broadly construed.
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Submissions for PSA 2026 in San Diego are now open! ☀️ Link and deadlines below
Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026
psa26.oa-event.com/c...
Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026
psa26.oa-event.com/c...
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Submissions for PSA 2026 in San Diego are now open! ☀️ Link and deadlines below
Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026
psa26.oa-event.com/c...
Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026
psa26.oa-event.com/c...
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We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.
The EENPS 2026 call for papers & symposia is now open! 🔥🔥🔥
🗓 Submission deadline: 15 Feb 2026
Conference: 18–19 Sept 2026, Bucharest 😉
See the conference website for full details!
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org
🗓 Submission deadline: 15 Feb 2026
Conference: 18–19 Sept 2026, Bucharest 😉
See the conference website for full details!
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org
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December 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.