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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks - that’s super helpful and I’ve updated them settings!

Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 17h

Wow okay apparently 300 people have already signed up (what!?) as I doubt that many people will actually turn up if you’re sure you will attend I’d get in touch with the organizers…

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 19h

Oh! Let me ask

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

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Thomas Reydon @thomasreydon.bsky.social · 15d

Published online today and available soon at your favorite purveyor of fine reading materials. And it's open access.

The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

www.cambridge.org

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 16d

Yep July 2026, pop me an email if you’d like to see if beforehand

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 16d

Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci

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ISHPSSB @ishpssb.bsky.social · Sep 7

We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Sep 2

I did a podcast about the philosophy of paleontology in German. I don’t speak German. The world is weird. open.spotify.com/episode/4jAP...

Die Entdeckung der Urzeit - Geschichte der Paläontologie

open.spotify.com

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Sep 1

I suspect that’s Napolean’s arch rival, who diligently guards the route from campus to town…

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)

PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association

www.philsci.org

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Aug 23

Aw thanks! Good question - I guess the “prescriptive frame” introduces explicit bias in a way. I’d also imagine that various biases are encoded in the experimental setups themselves. As for more power-dynamicy hierarchical bias my hunch is the framework is consistent with but doesn’t highlight them…

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hm, as we try to show in the paper Newton did seem to think that people should do the experiments themselves…

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Aug 22

Why was Newton so sure that if you just did his optical experiments you’d *have* to believe him about light? Kirsten Walsh, Tom Roberts and I use 4E cognition to suggest an answer. Anachronism? You be the judge… (also i’m real proud of this paper) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #philsci

Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 10

CFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society
ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop
Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
October 1-3, 2025
Abstracts due Aug.18
Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social
#philsci #STS 🦠
More info ⤵️

Home | The Human Diversity

perspectivesrace.wixsite.com

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Adam Toon @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social · Aug 8

Dan Hutto's Critical Notice of Mind as Metaphor (OUP, 2023) is now out in Analysis. Many thanks to Dan for his constructive and thought-provoking comments! Lots for me to mull over... You can read it here: doi.org/10.1093/anal... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social #philsky #philmind #cogsci

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 8

My rap style involves the use of syllables from my very own private language, so it's no surprise you can't understand it. I call it 'beetleboxing'

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Jul 25

Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

A flyer for "How AI is helping - and harming - animals", 30 Sept, LSE.

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Jul 25

Forthcoming (early 2026) *The Science of Lost Worlds* (BSPSOpen/UCalgary Press). Featuring illustrations by Jim Robins and philosophy by um me!!!

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thought I’d come across an excellent typo, “criticaster”, only to discover that in fact this is a word and indeed a superb one.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Dec 20

Warm congratulations to Alison Wylie and good pick, Rotterdam! I learned of Alison’s work in the early 2000s when what she did, philosophy of archaeology plus feminist theory, seemed totally out of the norm in our discipline. But she did what she believed in and now it’s (almost) mainstream. Bravo!

Alison Wylie awarded honorary doctorate by Erasmus University Rotterdam

Philosopher of science Alison Wylie was awarded an honorary doctorate for her contributions to the philosophy of science during the 111th Dies Natalis on Nov. 8

www.eur.nl

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · Jul 24

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience

www.cambridge.org

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · Jul 2

Book reviews assigned to an issue are always free to read for six months at Philosophical Psychology. Here Andra Meneganzin reviews Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene Social Contract doi.org/10.1080/0951... #FreeAccess #philsky

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sometimes when we’re trying to explain the evolution of human cognition we rely on intuitive judgements about how our ancestors thought that our current cognition might not be well-suited to make, or so argues Margaret Farrell in this cool new paper… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What would imaginary ancestors do? Thought experiments and intuitive plausibility in human cognitive evolution - Biology & Philosophy

The reconstruction of the evolutionary history of human cognition is a complex, interdisciplinary science. Human evolutionary theorists generally use a wide variety of evidential sources to construct ...

link.springer.com

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Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social · Jul 23

#ISHPSSB2025 has been an absolute blast! Here we celebrate the work and mentorship of Marc Ereshefsky, a truly positive model for philosophy of biology! Thank you all for coming along! Cheers to Marc!

#philsky
#HPbio
#philsci

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