Losner Briones
@losnerbriones.com
He/him. Vegan.
Predoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Science at UNED, Madrid. FPI Fellow at EVISOC. With NATE project.
Evidence and causal extrapolation in the social sciences. 🔍 Basic income experiments via Evidential Pluralism.
www.losnerbriones.com
Predoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Science at UNED, Madrid. FPI Fellow at EVISOC. With NATE project.
Evidence and causal extrapolation in the social sciences. 🔍 Basic income experiments via Evidential Pluralism.
www.losnerbriones.com
Reposted by Losner Briones
🟢This Thursday the 27th, our METIS member @ignasigil.bsky.social will talk about “The Epistemic and Zetetic Irrationality of Incessant Checking in OCD” at the SEFA 2025 Postgraduate Congress.
More info: www.sefaweb.es/programacps/
More info: www.sefaweb.es/programacps/
Programa Congreso de Postgrado de la SEFA | SEFA
www.sefaweb.es
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🟢This Thursday the 27th, our METIS member @ignasigil.bsky.social will talk about “The Epistemic and Zetetic Irrationality of Incessant Checking in OCD” at the SEFA 2025 Postgraduate Congress.
More info: www.sefaweb.es/programacps/
More info: www.sefaweb.es/programacps/
Reposted by Losner Briones
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu
European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS)
enposs.eu
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu
Reposted by Losner Briones
I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...
Causality and Causal Inference in Medicine (CauseMed)
This conference aims to bring together current research dealing with causality and inferential practices in the health sciences, broadly construed, welcoming philosophical, methodological, and scienti...
eventos.us.es
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...
Reposted by Losner Briones
🔥Segunda sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alejandro Di Rienzo (@dirienzo.bsky.social)(USC) presenta “Mereología musical”, con comentario a cargo de Ramon Carnota (UNED).
Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...
Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🔥Segunda sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alejandro Di Rienzo (@dirienzo.bsky.social)(USC) presenta “Mereología musical”, con comentario a cargo de Ramon Carnota (UNED).
Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...
Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...
I really enjoyed presenting my work today at the PSA AW Conference! Many thanks to the organisers @philsci.bsky.social and to our session chair, Michal Hladky, for making the session so welcoming. I also appreciated the pertinent questions from @jgutierrez.bsky.social & @williams-r-b.bsky.social! 🙂
Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference
💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes"
💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"
💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes"
💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I really enjoyed presenting my work today at the PSA AW Conference! Many thanks to the organisers @philsci.bsky.social and to our session chair, Michal Hladky, for making the session so welcoming. I also appreciated the pertinent questions from @jgutierrez.bsky.social & @williams-r-b.bsky.social! 🙂
Reposted by Losner Briones
Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference
💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes"
💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"
💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes"
💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference
💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes"
💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"
💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes"
💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"
Reposted by Losner Briones
My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
Die Wahl zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
www.wissenschaftsbuch.at
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
Reposted by Losner Briones
The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June.
Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.
Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...
Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.
Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...
Events – The Society for the Study of Measurement
measurementsociety.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June.
Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.
Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...
Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.
Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...
Reposted by Losner Briones
Good to see this by @cristianlarph.bsky.social published. The Stevens prohibition against averages from ordinal scales is hereby lifted. Albeit only when you have evidence that your scale is not purely ordinal #philsi #metascience #measurement
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK) | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
There is a widely held view on measurement inferences that goes back to Stevens’s theory of measurement scales and ‘permissible statistics’. This view defends the following prohibition: you should not...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Good to see this by @cristianlarph.bsky.social published. The Stevens prohibition against averages from ordinal scales is hereby lifted. Albeit only when you have evidence that your scale is not purely ordinal #philsi #metascience #measurement
Reposted by Losner Briones
The Phil-Sci Archive at Pitt is now pushing papers out on Bluesky. Follow the account below to see them
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Phil-Sci Archive at Pitt is now pushing papers out on Bluesky. Follow the account below to see them
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
Reposted by Losner Briones
Is democracy broken? How can we know if it still works?
My paper, “Does this democracy work?”, is now out in Economics & Philosophy:
doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Thank you to everyone who helped!
My paper, “Does this democracy work?”, is now out in Economics & Philosophy:
doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Thank you to everyone who helped!
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Is democracy broken? How can we know if it still works?
My paper, “Does this democracy work?”, is now out in Economics & Philosophy:
doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Thank you to everyone who helped!
My paper, “Does this democracy work?”, is now out in Economics & Philosophy:
doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Thank you to everyone who helped!
Reposted by Losner Briones
🚨Job Alert!
🏛️ One FPI PhD position open in our group.
🎓 Project: «Nuevas aproximaciones a la evidencia: desarrollos teóricos y prácticos».
📅Application period: from October 27 to November 7.
🔗More info at: www.uv.es/uvweb/servic...
🏛️ One FPI PhD position open in our group.
🎓 Project: «Nuevas aproximaciones a la evidencia: desarrollos teóricos y prácticos».
📅Application period: from October 27 to November 7.
🔗More info at: www.uv.es/uvweb/servic...
CPI-25-541
www.uv.es
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚨Job Alert!
🏛️ One FPI PhD position open in our group.
🎓 Project: «Nuevas aproximaciones a la evidencia: desarrollos teóricos y prácticos».
📅Application period: from October 27 to November 7.
🔗More info at: www.uv.es/uvweb/servic...
🏛️ One FPI PhD position open in our group.
🎓 Project: «Nuevas aproximaciones a la evidencia: desarrollos teóricos y prácticos».
📅Application period: from October 27 to November 7.
🔗More info at: www.uv.es/uvweb/servic...
Excited to take part in PSA Around the World 2025, where I'll be presenting part of my developing PhD work: "From causal inference to distributive outcomes: Why methodological pluralism matters in policy evaluation".
On 14 November at 17:35 (CET).
#PSA2025 #PolicyEvaluation
On 14 November at 17:35 (CET).
#PSA2025 #PolicyEvaluation
Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
www.philsci.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Excited to take part in PSA Around the World 2025, where I'll be presenting part of my developing PhD work: "From causal inference to distributive outcomes: Why methodological pluralism matters in policy evaluation".
On 14 November at 17:35 (CET).
#PSA2025 #PolicyEvaluation
On 14 November at 17:35 (CET).
#PSA2025 #PolicyEvaluation
Very promising project by Luis Mireles-Flores (@tint-philosophy.bsky.social)!
www.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
www.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
Causal Knowledge and the Process Of Policy Making | 63 | Toward a Bott
What are the roles of scientific causal knowledge in relation to the evidential requirements of policy making? In this chapter, I review the existing approaches
www.doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Very promising project by Luis Mireles-Flores (@tint-philosophy.bsky.social)!
www.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
www.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
Reposted by Losner Briones
📢 ¡Vuelve el Seminario de doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS!
🗣️12 sesiones donde doctorandxs comparten sus investigaciones.
🕓Miércoles, 16h (CEST/CET) | Formato híbrido
👥Coord.: @jsramos.bsky.social (UNED) y Turad Miguel Turad (UCM)
📅Programa completo: blogs.uned.es/metis/semina...
🗣️12 sesiones donde doctorandxs comparten sus investigaciones.
🕓Miércoles, 16h (CEST/CET) | Formato híbrido
👥Coord.: @jsramos.bsky.social (UNED) y Turad Miguel Turad (UCM)
📅Programa completo: blogs.uned.es/metis/semina...
October 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📢 ¡Vuelve el Seminario de doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS!
🗣️12 sesiones donde doctorandxs comparten sus investigaciones.
🕓Miércoles, 16h (CEST/CET) | Formato híbrido
👥Coord.: @jsramos.bsky.social (UNED) y Turad Miguel Turad (UCM)
📅Programa completo: blogs.uned.es/metis/semina...
🗣️12 sesiones donde doctorandxs comparten sus investigaciones.
🕓Miércoles, 16h (CEST/CET) | Formato híbrido
👥Coord.: @jsramos.bsky.social (UNED) y Turad Miguel Turad (UCM)
📅Programa completo: blogs.uned.es/metis/semina...
Reposted by Losner Briones
Congrats to all involved in the production of the massive Oxford Handbook of cultural evolution. You can read our paper The Cultural Evolution Of Science here: cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Congrats to all involved in the production of the massive Oxford Handbook of cultural evolution. You can read our paper The Cultural Evolution Of Science here: cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Losner Briones
Many people lack a coherent system of political beliefs (Converse, 1964). Yet, studies in social and political psychology often measure political ideology using a single-item "liberal-conservative" or "left-right" scale that assumes a coherent ideology.
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
October 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Many people lack a coherent system of political beliefs (Converse, 1964). Yet, studies in social and political psychology often measure political ideology using a single-item "liberal-conservative" or "left-right" scale that assumes a coherent ideology.
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Reposted by Losner Briones
En 24h un futbolista de la selección ha insinuado que nos fumigan con aviones y otro ha dicho que cualquier protesta es válida contra el genocidio en Gaza.
Para muchos el 1º es un valiente que se enfrenta al sistema y el 2º un provocador que mezcla política y deporte.
Vivimos un momento jodido.
Para muchos el 1º es un valiente que se enfrenta al sistema y el 2º un provocador que mezcla política y deporte.
Vivimos un momento jodido.
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
En 24h un futbolista de la selección ha insinuado que nos fumigan con aviones y otro ha dicho que cualquier protesta es válida contra el genocidio en Gaza.
Para muchos el 1º es un valiente que se enfrenta al sistema y el 2º un provocador que mezcla política y deporte.
Vivimos un momento jodido.
Para muchos el 1º es un valiente que se enfrenta al sistema y el 2º un provocador que mezcla política y deporte.
Vivimos un momento jodido.
Reposted by Losner Briones
Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan.
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
October 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan.
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
Reposted by Losner Briones
At the XI SEFA Congress in Seville, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com) (with Guillermo Marín Penella) presenting:
“Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”
“Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
At the XI SEFA Congress in Seville, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com) (with Guillermo Marín Penella) presenting:
“Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”
“Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”
Reposted by Losner Briones
The XI SEFA Congress starts!
We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.
We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The XI SEFA Congress starts!
We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.
We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.
Reposted by Losner Briones
Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
September 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
Reposted by Losner Briones
👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026!
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
September 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026!
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
Reposted by Losner Briones
I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy