Alisa Bokulich
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Alisa Bokulich
@alisabokulich.bsky.social
Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
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November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thanks!
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Thank you! I will follow up by email...
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Feel free to DM me too 😊
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Great philosophical question! My coauthor Wendy Parker and I define data as "a record of a process of inquiry" in this paper that might be helpful for thinking about how to answer this question:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

bokulich.org/wp-content/u...
Data models, representation and adequacy-for-purpose - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
We critically engage two traditional views of scientific data and outline a novel philosophical view that we call the pragmatic-representational (PR) view of data. On the PR view, data are representat...
link.springer.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
YES! 😅
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM