MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project
@modeltransfer.bsky.social
Our team (Catherine Herfeld, Edoardo Peruzzi, Bele Wollesen, Murat Bakeev, Oliver Budras) studies model transfer in science (especially economics) at @iphilluh.bsky.social. ERC Starting Grant project (2023 – 2029) @erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
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Welcome to the Bluesky account of the ERC-funded project “MODEL TRANSFER and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics.” The project, led by Catherine Herfeld, is hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at the Leibniz University Hannover.
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
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🔥 My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Conversations on Rational Choice
Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Conversations on Rational Choice
www.cambridge.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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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...
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Dear Digital Humanists, you are all invited to the EADH 2026 Conference! We are meeting in September, in Kraków, Poland.
Mark the important dates in your calendars:
📆 8.02: submission deadline
📆 15-19.09: the conference
Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
✈️ See you in Kraków?
Mark the important dates in your calendars:
📆 8.02: submission deadline
📆 15-19.09: the conference
Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
✈️ See you in Kraków?
EADH 2026 - Jagiellońskie Centrum Humanistyki Cyfrowej
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Dear Digital Humanists, you are all invited to the EADH 2026 Conference! We are meeting in September, in Kraków, Poland.
Mark the important dates in your calendars:
📆 8.02: submission deadline
📆 15-19.09: the conference
Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
✈️ See you in Kraków?
Mark the important dates in your calendars:
📆 8.02: submission deadline
📆 15-19.09: the conference
Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
✈️ See you in Kraków?
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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
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First talk in 2026: at TU Dresden. impressive city and a really helpful discussion with @ennofischer.bsky.social, Rico Hauswald, Tamara Jugov and Pedro Schmechtling about what is interesting about model transfers and the concept of epistemic harms to think about challenges to them. #erc_research
January 7, 2026 at 11:47 PM
First talk in 2026: at TU Dresden. impressive city and a really helpful discussion with @ennofischer.bsky.social, Rico Hauswald, Tamara Jugov and Pedro Schmechtling about what is interesting about model transfers and the concept of epistemic harms to think about challenges to them. #erc_research
An interesting call for papers on bubbles in science!
We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue!
In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social
Deadline July 15 - spread the word!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social
Deadline July 15 - spread the word!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Read the latest articles of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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January 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
An interesting call for papers on bubbles in science!
The #ModelTransfer team wishes you a joyful holiday season! See you in the New Year 🎉
🎄Season greetings from almost all members of the @modeltransfer.bsky.social team! Have a relaxed break! 🔆
December 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The #ModelTransfer team wishes you a joyful holiday season! See you in the New Year 🎉
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Back at the @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social after a long time for the last talk in 2025. Very exciting as it brings back a lot of memories. In the paper, we use network analysis to study whether model transfer might play a role in waking up sleeping beauty papers in science.
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Back at the @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social after a long time for the last talk in 2025. Very exciting as it brings back a lot of memories. In the paper, we use network analysis to study whether model transfer might play a role in waking up sleeping beauty papers in science.
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The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
Front Page | Center for the History of Political Economy
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December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
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Back from an intense and rewarding experience to teach a Master Class at the University of Zurich on Modeling and Model Transfer! In two days, I have learned so much that I immediately had to get a Glühwein afterwards 🥃🎄#modeltransfer @erc.europa.eu
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Back from an intense and rewarding experience to teach a Master Class at the University of Zurich on Modeling and Model Transfer! In two days, I have learned so much that I immediately had to get a Glühwein afterwards 🥃🎄#modeltransfer @erc.europa.eu
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Call for Applications — DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2026
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Call for Applications — DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2026
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
Writing can be a difficult and often lonely activity. To make it easier, our team member Bele Wollesen hosts weekly Writing Sessions that bring our team and other interested researchers at LUH together to work on individual writing projects in a structured and supportive environment.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Writing can be a difficult and often lonely activity. To make it easier, our team member Bele Wollesen hosts weekly Writing Sessions that bring our team and other interested researchers at LUH together to work on individual writing projects in a structured and supportive environment.
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Check out this short video introduction of the wonderful Center for the History of Economics at Duke University (@duke-university.bsky.social), one of the best places to do the history of economics hope.econ.duke.edu/about-us Thanks for letting me be part of it! (@shoet.bsky.social)
About the HOPE Center
hope.econ.duke.edu
December 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Check out this short video introduction of the wonderful Center for the History of Economics at Duke University (@duke-university.bsky.social), one of the best places to do the history of economics hope.econ.duke.edu/about-us Thanks for letting me be part of it! (@shoet.bsky.social)
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💥 The new issue of the Royal Economic Society Newsletter (@resmedia.bsky.social) is out. It contains a short summary of my forthcoming book Conversations on Rational Choice (starting on page 4).
The latest issue of the RES Quarterly Newsletter is now available to read. Take a look at this edition to learn about:
✅ Why economists should study happiness
✅ The lived experiences of UK academic economists
...and much, much more! Read the Newsletter here: bit.ly/48du0BR
✅ Why economists should study happiness
✅ The lived experiences of UK academic economists
...and much, much more! Read the Newsletter here: bit.ly/48du0BR
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
💥 The new issue of the Royal Economic Society Newsletter (@resmedia.bsky.social) is out. It contains a short summary of my forthcoming book Conversations on Rational Choice (starting on page 4).
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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
The Sixth Biennial Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science - 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.
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Looking forward to be back at the University of Zurich tomorrow to discuss some results of our exploratory study of women in academic philosophy in Switzerland together with former colleague Jörg Rössel from @sociology-uzh.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Looking forward to be back at the University of Zurich tomorrow to discuss some results of our exploratory study of women in academic philosophy in Switzerland together with former colleague Jörg Rössel from @sociology-uzh.bsky.social
⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about CfP 👇
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about CfP 👇
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about CfP 👇
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about CfP 👇
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1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Dan Hausman on macroeconomic models
In this critique and exploration of Dan Hausman’s 2023 edition of The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics, I focus on his view of economic models as predicate models and his commitment to equ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
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Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
Working on #TrustInScience #AcademicFreedom #ValuesInScience #Expertise #IntegrativeResearch #ScienceForPolicy or related topics?
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team!
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team!
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
We’re proud of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi, who presented “Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory” last Friday at the HOPE Workshop at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University!
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We’re proud of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi, who presented “Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory” last Friday at the HOPE Workshop at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University!
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
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Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
![November 14, 2025
• [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective."
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
• [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut)
• |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
• [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)
• [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas.
• |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30
MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work?
Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions"
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreif7tjcqxyhw6ivn6cvhv7vysub34sgjn2irva263g2z6wtmhgpsbe@jpeg)
![November 13, 2025
• [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
• 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison"
Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
• 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic"
Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
• [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreibbyykhaegpswhv3pjthrdrrivitxwqrnidv4ofitkoi43qyhey5m@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
Our PI, @cherfeld.bsky.social, is giving a talk today on model transfer and its challenges in science at the University of Kansas, as part of the workshop “From Biology to Economics and Back: Internal Conflicts and Collective Agency Across Disciplines."
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our PI, @cherfeld.bsky.social, is giving a talk today on model transfer and its challenges in science at the University of Kansas, as part of the workshop “From Biology to Economics and Back: Internal Conflicts and Collective Agency Across Disciplines."
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
Really interesting discussion of Mauricio Suárez’s Inference and Representation, touching on fundamental questions about integrating history and philosophy of science and how the normative connects with the descriptive.
The below link should work, but let me know if you can't get access and I'll DM you the author's copy!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hearty thanks to Oscar Westerblad @oscarw.bsky.social, Chiara Ambrosio and Alexander Bird for their wonderful commentaries!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hearty thanks to Oscar Westerblad @oscarw.bsky.social, Chiara Ambrosio and Alexander Bird for their wonderful commentaries!
Inference and Representation by Mauricio Suárez: Reply by the Author.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Really interesting discussion of Mauricio Suárez’s Inference and Representation, touching on fundamental questions about integrating history and philosophy of science and how the normative connects with the descriptive.