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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · 1d

Ahmad Elabbar, Values and Assessment Reports on Climate Change - PhilPapers

In recent decades, a complex regime of national, regional, and global climate assessments has emerged to apprehend the vast body of evidence on climate change and deliver authoritative reports to poli...

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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · 1d

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Dana Tulodziecki, Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too - PhilPapers

This paper focuses on a type of underdetermination that has barely received any philosophical attention: underdetermination of data. I show how one particular type of data—RNA sequencing data, arguabl...

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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · 1d

Two cool-looking articles in my mailbox today: one by @193.bsky.social making the case for the underdetermination of data, and another by Ahmad Elabbar providing an institutional analysis of value influence in climate science. #philsci #phisky #valuesinscience #climate
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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited for a #envhum weekend at the Flathead Lake Bio Station. Big thanks to Craig Calender, Karen Kovaka, and the UC San Diego Center for Practical Ethics for making this possible!

On the menu: misinformation in the environmental sciences, animal communication, and human-wildlife conflict 🌎

Picture of a peninsula with a beautiful beach surrounded by blue/green lake water and mountains in the background.

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Philosophy in Review @philosophyinreview.bsky.social · 16d

We’ve added a new selection of forthcoming titles to our Titles for Review sheet. If one sparks your interest (or if there’s another you’ve been eyeing), send us a request at [email protected]! tinyurl.com/ybh7mpvd #BookReview #PhilSky #OpenAccess

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 16d

"If we want philosophy to be genuinely global, just, and conducive to the pursuit of truth, we need to be more aware of the invisible labor that many NNES philosophers invest to be heard, and more willing to challenge the structures that may keep them quiet."

#philsky

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The Hidden Costs of Being a Non-Native English Speaker in Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous

Last year, a group of scholars launched an international survey of philosophers on the dominant language of philosophy today---"academic English"---and the challenges faced by native and non-native sp...

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Rebeka Ferreira @philobitch @philosop-her.bsky.social · 18d

Happy first day of Fall 🍂 term 🍁

#philsky #academicsky #edusky

Wired Racoon with coffee and sword. Text: okay, I'm here ... where's the work?

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Erich Hatala Matthes @ehatmat.bsky.social · 18d

My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky

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The Ethics of Cultural Heritage (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Philosophy in Review @philosophyinreview.bsky.social · 25d

Émilie du Châtelet challenged the Enlightenment, and history nearly forgot her. Jon Templeman reviews Andrew Janiak’s 'The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman', a bold reexamination of philosophy’s hidden foundations. Read the review here: buff.ly/znhgfdx #EmilieDuChatelet #PhilSky #BookReview

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Book cover of “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman” by Andrew Janiak. Features a stylized pink illustration of Émilie du Châtelet on a black background, with the title and author’s name in white text.

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 25d

Some years ago, Bayer tried to recruit me for a project on trust in science. (I listened, but then declined.) Now it’s clear not only do they not trust science, they don’t trust justice, either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/c...

G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms

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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Why do I thank GPT whenever it completes a task for me? #AIethics #delusion

Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · Sep 8

So… I have disappeared for a month. Apologies. Travels, a new job (Associate Dean), and the beginning of a heavy semester have kept me quite busy. Looking forward to hanging out here again. And for now, here is my review of @cepaea.bsky.social’s fascinating book, The Land is our Community. #philsci🌎

Review of Roberta L. Millstein’s The Land Is Our Community - Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium. Chicago, IL: University of Chic...

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Marsh Naylor @marshnaylor.net · Jul 29

#academicsky #philsky #edusky

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rss.dfaria.eu @rss.dfaria.eu · Jul 27

philsci-archive.pitt.edu: What does it mean to say that science is value-laden?

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/cgi/export/eprint/26034/Atom/pittphilsci-eprint-26034.xml

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Jul 18

TT Job in Philosophy: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor of Philosophy at School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, AOS/AOC: Open
#philsky #philsci #philjobs

James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · Jul 18

We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU!

Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!

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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · Jul 18

Promising paper by Zina Ward: cluster theories of natural kinds help establish that female / male brains do not qualify as natural kinds. #philsci

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Jul 18

Just accepted:

'Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains'
– Zina Ward

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky

ABSTRACT. Neuroscientists are at loggerheads about whether to draw a distinction between the male and female brain. The controversy is primarily rooted not in disagreement about first-order empirical results, but in conflicting assumptions about what will establish a difference between two brain types. Understanding these commitments through the lens of philosophical work on natural kinds, I show that both sides of the debate adopt implausible assumptions about kindhood. Relying on a framework provided by cluster theories of natural kinds, I provide a philosophically and empirically motivated argument against the view that male and female brains are natural kinds. Because machine learning methods play an increasingly important role in this debate, my argument has implications for machine learning in science: we should not conflate supervised classification with scientific classification, though some unsupervised methods might help us identify natural kinds if applied with caution.

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Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · Jul 17

Reposting for recent arrivals… #philosophy #PhilSky

Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · May 8

Resources for #philosophy on Bluesky (updated)

1. Feeds
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bsky.app/profile/did:... – low-traffic announcements feed 📢

2. Starter packs
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3. Lists
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Jul 16

I wonder, if we truly believe we are so much better than other species, why have we spent thousands of years driving home the point?

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 15

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 15

#LSEPhilosophy Professor Roman Frigg & colleagues published the book “Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100” with @springernature.com

👉It's the first book in this century to cover the contemporary significance of Lakatos’ philosophy

🔓 Open access link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #philsci

Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100

This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.

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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · Jul 15

Intriguing article: “While many people might assume that our memories are primarily stored within our brains, some philosophers like myself argue that… memory can extend beyond the confines of the body to involve coupled interaction with structures in the environment. “ #philsci #philsky #cognition

What can slime mould teach us about biological memory? | Aeon Essays

Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob?

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Jul 14

Just accepted:

‘In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis’
– Nicola Bamonti & Karim Thébault

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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ABSTRACT. This article considers a new and deeply challenging aspect of the problem of time in the context of cosmology, drawing on the work of Thiemann. Thiemann argues for a radical response to the cosmic problem of time that requires us to modify the classical Friedmann equations. By contrast, we offer a conservative proposal for the solution of the problem, by bringing together ideas from the contemporary literature regarding reference frames, complete observables, and the model-based account of time measurement. On our approach, we must reinterpret our criteria of observability in light of the clock hypothesis and the model-based account of measurement in order to preserve the Friedmann equations as the dynamical equations for the universe.

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Kaltweis @kaltweis.bsky.social · Jul 12

Here's a short popular piece about #Descartes' central role in the #history of #enlightenment #philosophy & the troubles he's got himself into, both of which we shouldn't lose sight of among all the chatter about his #dualism — just saw it via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social: #PhilSky #PhilSci

Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · Jul 11

I am looking forward to discussing this, Mike!

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Soazig Le Bihan @soaziglebihan.bsky.social · Jul 10

Cool article:
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Multilevel innovativeness and cross-species comparisons - European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Behavioral innovativeness—the propensity of an individual organism or higher group to innovate—is frequently invoked as a measurable trait allowing for cross-species comparisons. Individuals or specie...

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