The HOPOS Journal
@hoposjournal.bsky.social
History of philosophy of science.
Link to our latest issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/current
Editor: @thehangedman.com
Link to our latest issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/current
Editor: @thehangedman.com
In the latest issue of #HOPOS Jacob McDowell notes the surprising fact that Thomas Kuhn endorses "aspects of the causal theory [of reference] in several later essays while maintaining the possibility of incommensurability".
Link to the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Link to the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
In the latest issue of #HOPOS Jacob McDowell notes the surprising fact that Thomas Kuhn endorses "aspects of the causal theory [of reference] in several later essays while maintaining the possibility of incommensurability".
Link to the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Link to the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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*HOPOS Capital Campaign*
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Photo of the banquet from HOPOS 2016 in Minneapolis. Recently, I returned from the HOPOS 2024 conference in Vienna . It was a fantastic conference - most people I talked to said the biggest problem...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism."
Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism."
Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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“How science is changing”
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
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#philsci
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Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
#philsci
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
How Science is Changing | Panel Discussion | Philosophy of Science Association/PEWS Event
An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion. Join scholars from institutions across North America as they discuss the ways in which science is changing in their fi...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“How science is changing”
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
#philsci
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
#philsci
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
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Aram d’Abro was an influential science populariser who wrote The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein and The Rise of the New Physics (prevl The Decline of Mechanism …). Does anyone on here know of any papers, books, whatever that discuss him or his work?
October 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Aram d’Abro was an influential science populariser who wrote The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein and The Rise of the New Physics (prevl The Decline of Mechanism …). Does anyone on here know of any papers, books, whatever that discuss him or his work?
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New on the Archive:
Norton, John D. (2024) The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27217/
Norton, John D. (2024) The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27217/
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New on the Archive:
Norton, John D. (2024) The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27217/
Norton, John D. (2024) The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27217/
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As a consequence L believed that, like classical physics, geological dynamics are ergodic. In exploring a Newtonian state space, the earth system will return to a state in which iguanadons, ichthyosaurs, and pterodactyls roam the earth
Henry De la Beche mocked him here
🗃️🧠🧪 ⚒️ 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci 🐡
Henry De la Beche mocked him here
🗃️🧠🧪 ⚒️ 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci 🐡
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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New on the Archive:
Seifert, Vanessa A. (2025) The many laws in the periodic table. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27237/
Seifert, Vanessa A. (2025) The many laws in the periodic table. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27237/
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New on the Archive:
Seifert, Vanessa A. (2025) The many laws in the periodic table. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27237/
Seifert, Vanessa A. (2025) The many laws in the periodic table. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27237/
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HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov)
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…
HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov)
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of House 10, access through House 6), there will be a joint seminar of the Centre for HPS and the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre-CHoP), exploring the history of scientific printing.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov)
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…
Manuel Fasko writes in the latest #HOPOS about ""Mary Shepherd’s Influence on Mary Somerville on Induction."
Link here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Link here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Manuel Fasko writes in the latest #HOPOS about ""Mary Shepherd’s Influence on Mary Somerville on Induction."
Link here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Link here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
In the latest #HOPOS, Ties van Gemert analyzes a 1968 lecture by the French historian and philosopher of science Suzanne Bachelard (1919–2007), titled “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.
Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In the latest #HOPOS, Ties van Gemert analyzes a 1968 lecture by the French historian and philosopher of science Suzanne Bachelard (1919–2007), titled “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.
Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Our newest issue culminates #HOPOS's 15th year in publication.
Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
#philsky #histsci
Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
#philsky #histsci
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our newest issue culminates #HOPOS's 15th year in publication.
Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
#philsky #histsci
Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
#philsky #histsci
The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
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The book review of my René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies (Springer 2024) - publioshed in @hoposjournal.bsky.social (2025/2) by Patricia Easton #descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #plantstudies www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Fabrizio Baldassarri. René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies. Cham: Springer, 2023. Pp. xvi+208. $119.99 (cloth). ISBN 978-3-031-48662-3. | HOPOS: The Journal of the International S...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The book review of my René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies (Springer 2024) - publioshed in @hoposjournal.bsky.social (2025/2) by Patricia Easton #descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #plantstudies www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
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October 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
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If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky
Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism
Science and Humanism - October 2025
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October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky
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Save the date:The next biennial Society for the Study of Measurement (SSM) conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026.
Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️
measurementsociety.org
#HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci
Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️
measurementsociety.org
#HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci
The Society for the Study of Measurement
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October 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Save the date:The next biennial Society for the Study of Measurement (SSM) conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026.
Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️
measurementsociety.org
#HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci
Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️
measurementsociety.org
#HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci
The new Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The new Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989.
Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology
Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology
October 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989.
Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology
Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology
In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
October 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
HOPOS 2026
Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea
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September 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
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#Job #PhilSci #HPS
Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...
On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...
Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...
On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...
Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S...
The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#Job #PhilSci #HPS
Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...
On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...
Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...
On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...
The new Cambridge Element on Philosophy of Cosmology by Siska de Baerdemaeker is available for free download until Friday, October 3.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
De Baerdemaeker's article in #HOPOS on the history of cosmology can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
De Baerdemaeker's article in #HOPOS on the history of cosmology can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics
www.cambridge.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The new Cambridge Element on Philosophy of Cosmology by Siska de Baerdemaeker is available for free download until Friday, October 3.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
De Baerdemaeker's article in #HOPOS on the history of cosmology can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
De Baerdemaeker's article in #HOPOS on the history of cosmology can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....