João Ohara
@oharajrm.com
Theory and Philosophy of History @ University of São Paulo - USP (Brazil)
Interested in narrative, trust, and epistemic dependence.
Interested in narrative, trust, and epistemic dependence.
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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
I'm so happy that our panel on Testimony, Trust, and Epistemic Dependence in Historiography has been accepted for the 2026 INTH Conference in Tallinn! I'll be joined by Jonas Ahlskog and Verónica Tozzi Thompson.
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I'm so happy that our panel on Testimony, Trust, and Epistemic Dependence in Historiography has been accepted for the 2026 INTH Conference in Tallinn! I'll be joined by Jonas Ahlskog and Verónica Tozzi Thompson.
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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
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October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A new blogpost from Lisa Regazzoni (@lisaregazzoni.bsky.social): In it she describes her experience visiting the town of Salem and reflects on finding words for the encounter of merging temporal horizons.
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/32090
#theoryofhistory
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/32090
#theoryofhistory
American (Hi)storytelling: Report #1 from a Real Experience. Written by a Theorist of History after a Tourist Visit to Salem, Massachusetts.
Lisa Regazzoni - October 5th, 2025. In Salem, Massachusetts, the temporal horizons seem to merge. In this small town near Boston, the past – specifically the year 1692 – is present in a way I had not...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
A new blogpost from Lisa Regazzoni (@lisaregazzoni.bsky.social): In it she describes her experience visiting the town of Salem and reflects on finding words for the encounter of merging temporal horizons.
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/32090
#theoryofhistory
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/32090
#theoryofhistory
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In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!
After Marilynn Johnson's talk this Thursday, our research seminar will already continue next week (30.10) with @hhenriikka.bsky.social's online talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework". More info and the Zoom link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex....
All welcome!
All welcome!
Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework
Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework
www.oulu.fi
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!
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That's right! There's one talk this Thursday (23.10) and one talk next Thursday (30.10, both 17h Finnish time) in our research seminar. Come and join us for both if you can!
After Marilynn Johnson's talk this Thursday, our research seminar will already continue next week (30.10) with @hhenriikka.bsky.social's online talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework". More info and the Zoom link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex....
All welcome!
All welcome!
Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework
Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework
www.oulu.fi
October 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
That's right! There's one talk this Thursday (23.10) and one talk next Thursday (30.10, both 17h Finnish time) in our research seminar. Come and join us for both if you can!
Excellent!
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
October 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Excellent!
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Today in two weeks, the autumn edition of our joint research seminar PHO2 will begin with @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social's talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History". The talk will be hybrid (in Ostrava & on Zoom). More info: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ar....
All welcome!
All welcome!
Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History
Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History
www.oulu.fi
October 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Today in two weeks, the autumn edition of our joint research seminar PHO2 will begin with @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social's talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History". The talk will be hybrid (in Ostrava & on Zoom). More info: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ar....
All welcome!
All welcome!
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what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it
Maybe but then "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of black people" was/is a part of that. And if he doesn't understand that then he has an enormous blind spot and I hope someone close to him sits him down for a talk.
September 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it
This week, I taught Hempel's d-n model in my philosophy of history course. And each time I come back to that text, I think I become more sympathetic to his point. I'm not sure which of my assumptions is shaken, but the model seems much more attractive now than when I first read about it years ago.
August 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This week, I taught Hempel's d-n model in my philosophy of history course. And each time I come back to that text, I think I become more sympathetic to his point. I'm not sure which of my assumptions is shaken, but the model seems much more attractive now than when I first read about it years ago.
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🎓 4-year postdoc position at Bielefeld University (start Jan 2026)
📌 Material-Oriented Theory of History, with Prof. Lisa Regazzoni
📆 Apply by 28 Aug 2025 👉 shorturl.at/yNQJm
Open to history, philosophy, STS, material studies profiles
#Postdoc #History #STS
📌 Material-Oriented Theory of History, with Prof. Lisa Regazzoni
📆 Apply by 28 Aug 2025 👉 shorturl.at/yNQJm
Open to history, philosophy, STS, material studies profiles
#Postdoc #History #STS
August 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🎓 4-year postdoc position at Bielefeld University (start Jan 2026)
📌 Material-Oriented Theory of History, with Prof. Lisa Regazzoni
📆 Apply by 28 Aug 2025 👉 shorturl.at/yNQJm
Open to history, philosophy, STS, material studies profiles
#Postdoc #History #STS
📌 Material-Oriented Theory of History, with Prof. Lisa Regazzoni
📆 Apply by 28 Aug 2025 👉 shorturl.at/yNQJm
Open to history, philosophy, STS, material studies profiles
#Postdoc #History #STS
I'm not prepared for all the marking I'll have to do this week. Wish me luck.
June 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I'm not prepared for all the marking I'll have to do this week. Wish me luck.
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🧵1/ I'm happy to share my new article just published in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science:
"Political philosophy of experimentation"
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #STS #politicalphilosophy
"Political philosophy of experimentation"
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #STS #politicalphilosophy
Political philosophy of experimentation - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
In this article, I sketch out the contours of a political philosophy of experimentation. Drawing on the work of Joseph Rouse, Hans Radder, Gilbert Hottois, and Jerome Ravetz, I argue that such a polit...
link.springer.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
🧵1/ I'm happy to share my new article just published in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science:
"Political philosophy of experimentation"
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #STS #politicalphilosophy
"Political philosophy of experimentation"
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #STS #politicalphilosophy
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Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
June 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
Into the syllabus it goes.
June 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Into the syllabus it goes.
My wife said not much has changed here because I have always complained a lot. Ok, fair enough.
June 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My wife said not much has changed here because I have always complained a lot. Ok, fair enough.
I blame Liam for me being increasingly annoyed with my field.
I also find the use of "Radical" as this kinda general praise term *really* contemptible. But I think it annoys me out of whack to how bad it actually is. But ftr it's because to me sounds like people arguing about who is really Deep just with a leftist inflection; and I hate Deepitude argument too.
June 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I blame Liam for me being increasingly annoyed with my field.
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I find humanities debates re how to be Radical very quaint. Imo the reason us sitting around and arguing about metaphysics isn't actually leading to substantial increases in power or wellbeing for the working class has nothing to do with the particular way we sit around and argue about metaphysics.
June 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I find humanities debates re how to be Radical very quaint. Imo the reason us sitting around and arguing about metaphysics isn't actually leading to substantial increases in power or wellbeing for the working class has nothing to do with the particular way we sit around and argue about metaphysics.
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Only a few days left to apply for the postdoc position in the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Deadline 9 June.
Call for Applications: Open PostDoc-Position
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June 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Only a few days left to apply for the postdoc position in the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Deadline 9 June.
Excellent thread. I take it as a positive that (analytic) philosophy of science is grappling with the non-cognitive aims and values of science (as something constitutive of science and relevant to its cognitive aims).
(This thread is commentary, not criticism!)
The "anti-science" label is tricky, because the attacks on science are being framed in the rhetoric of good science: transparency, rigor, objectivity, open debate
How can promoting these values be *anti* science? 1/
The "anti-science" label is tricky, because the attacks on science are being framed in the rhetoric of good science: transparency, rigor, objectivity, open debate
How can promoting these values be *anti* science? 1/
Just released. My Nature piece:
"Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault...
History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists...
rdcu.be/eo3Hb
"Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault...
History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists...
rdcu.be/eo3Hb
June 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Excellent thread. I take it as a positive that (analytic) philosophy of science is grappling with the non-cognitive aims and values of science (as something constitutive of science and relevant to its cognitive aims).
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DOMINO-TALK: We are happy to announce a #dominotalk between @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social and Shahzad Bashir, which will take place next Thursday, the fifth of June.
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online! #theoryofhistory | #Material-Oriented-Theory-of-History
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online! #theoryofhistory | #Material-Oriented-Theory-of-History
Abt. Geschichtswissenschaft - 05.06.2025: Lisa Regazzoni (Bielefeld) im Gespräch mit Shahzad Bashir (London): The Episteme of the Gallic Past | Domino Gespräch
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May 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
DOMINO-TALK: We are happy to announce a #dominotalk between @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social and Shahzad Bashir, which will take place next Thursday, the fifth of June.
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online! #theoryofhistory | #Material-Oriented-Theory-of-History
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online! #theoryofhistory | #Material-Oriented-Theory-of-History
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quem estiver em BH semana que vem, vamos nos verrrr
May 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
quem estiver em BH semana que vem, vamos nos verrrr
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Some researchers, including some I very much respect, think that we need to stop pussyfooting around and start being more brutal in our way of talking about bad work in our field
I disagree. When you are refuting someone’s work, I think it’s important not to be a dick about it
I disagree. When you are refuting someone’s work, I think it’s important not to be a dick about it
May 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Some researchers, including some I very much respect, think that we need to stop pussyfooting around and start being more brutal in our way of talking about bad work in our field
I disagree. When you are refuting someone’s work, I think it’s important not to be a dick about it
I disagree. When you are refuting someone’s work, I think it’s important not to be a dick about it
This whole situation in the US is completely absurd. I hope everyone finds good opportunities elsewhere asap.
May 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This whole situation in the US is completely absurd. I hope everyone finds good opportunities elsewhere asap.