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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 12h

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

jobs.sjsu.edu

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 6h

The new Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite ﬁelds of study."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 6d

Hilda Oakeley was the (acting) Head of Department at King's College from 1925-30 and Head of Department in 1931. @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social

Read more about her in this 2015 blog written by Emily Thomas:
feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/i...

Introducing British idealist Hilda Oakeley – a guest post by Emily Thomas

It is with great pleasure that I introduce our first guest post. Its author, Emily Thomas, is a postdoc at the University of Groningen where she currently holds a Netherlands Research Council (NWO)…

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 7d

#Postdoc at U. of Vienna in philosophy of science, with focus on scientific modeling, interdisciplinarity &/or philosophy of engineering, w/ Prof. Tarja Knuuttila. English & German language proficiency required.
Deadline: Oct 9th
#philsci

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University Assistant postdoctoral, in the research area of Philosophy of Science

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7d

Before he was murdered by a fascist Schlick was working on a far ranging version of this idea (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2016/12/schl...). I also agree, fwiw. I see little hope of persuading people of this!

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Louis Doulas @louisdoulas.bsky.social · 7d

*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)

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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 9d

This is happening tonight! Join us for the Inaugural Address 2026-5 by Lucy O'Brien (UCL) #philosophy #philsky

Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 20d

Join us for the first Proceedings of the 2025-6 year! Lucy O’Brien (UCL) Inaugural Address: Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds

📍Chancellors Hall, Senate House
⏰ Monday 29 September. 18.15-19.45, followed by drinks reception
🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...

#philosophy

Lucy O’Brien – The Aristotelian Society

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 11d

Looks like the Department of Philosophy at Stanford has a second open rank faculty position open to all areas of philosophy
Stanford University
31 Oct 2025 11:55 PM PT
#philsci #philsky #philjobs

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Professor of Philosophy

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12d

#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics

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Michelle Liu @michelleybliu.bsky.social · 15d

My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17d

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities?

Together we can turn back the tide.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Louis Doulas @louisdoulas.bsky.social · 18d

It’s here! My volume on Susan Stebbing (co-edited with Annalisa Coliva). Out in print at the end of this month! academic.oup.com/book/60791?l...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 19d

A fantastic kickoff tonight of the Boston Network for History & Philosophy of Physics, organized by @miguelohn.bsky.social & featuring talk by Peter Galison on his work with the Black Hole Initiative. #HPS ⚛️

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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 19d

Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky

Cobblestone pathway leading to the red-brick Institute of Philosophy building at KU Leuven in Belgium (home of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science), framed by ivy-covered walls, arched windows, and lush greenery with purple wisteria flowers in the foreground.

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 22d

"Thus, the scientific world-conception is close to the present. Certainly it is threatened with hard struggles and hostility. Nevertheless there are many who do not despair but, in view of the present sociological situation, look forward with hope to the course of events to come..."

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · Aug 28

🎙️ New HPS Pod!

I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.

🎧 Link in bio!

#HOPOS

S5 E7 - Lydia Patton on HOPOS

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 23d

"In 2011, Richard Serjeantson discovered a hitherto unknown manuscript copy" of René Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii. This review by Tarek R. Dika, John Schuster & David Rabouin centers on a new edition by Richard Serjeantson & Michael Edwards.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 26d

Outgoing #HOPOS editor Lydia Patton reflects on seven years at the journal.

Later in the Fall, look out for Editor in Chief Matthew J. Brown's statement of editorial vision as he takes the reins of a journal now in its 15th year of publication.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Serendipity and the Unexpected in the History of Philosophy of Science: Reflections on My Editorship of HOPOS (2017–2024) | HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science: Vol 15, No 1

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Chiara Russo Krauss @russokrauss.bsky.social · 28d

The Conference for the project I've been working on for the last few years is happening soon.
You can access it on streaming: t.co/GjFS3safuQ
Full program: acesse.one/OZJAw
(I can't wait for it to happen, so I can stop having nightmares about something going wrong)

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 28d

In "Disciplinary Bounds and Their Upkeep", Fons Dewulf "lay[s] out a framework to describe the dynamics of academized twentieth-century philosophy in relation to its social and institutional context." #HOPOS

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Andreas Vrahimis @avrahimis.bsky.social · Sep 5

My new paper on Susan Stebbing's early debate with F.C.S. Schiller on the Pragmatist theory of truth has just been published in Synthese. #philsky

(Free access using this link: rdcu.be/eEdDT )

The working of truths: Stebbing’s debate with Schiller - Synthese

Synthese - According to the standard account, early analytic philosophy clashed with Pragmatism when Moore and Russell attacked the James-Schiller theory of truth from 1908 onwards. While recent...

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British Journal of Aesthetics @britjaesth.bsky.social · 29d

Karen Simecek and Toby Young introduce our brand new issue, a special issue on the aesthetics and ethics of embodied performance. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

Whether in discussions about colour-blind casting in Hollywood or major opera houses deciding if canonical stage works that problematically depict marginalized people should still be performed, the cultural implications of ‘giving voice’ to marginalized experiences and ideas through performance are more important now than ever. To date, these issues have remained largely untouched by philosophy, yet philosophy can bring important and distinctive understanding to the debate through ethical and aesthetic analysis of performance and embodied voice[.]
- Karen Simecek, Toby Young, Embodied Voices: An Introduction

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29d

A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement

Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality

We examine considerations that enter into design and evaluation of measures in social science, categorizing them into four drivers: epistemic, ethical…

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

The history of philosophy of science journal #HOPOS posts regularly on social media. Follow us to keep up with new papers and events. Of course, our new papers might be about 300 year old theories, and we like it that way. Don't forget to tag posts: #HOPOS

Collage with figures and publications from the history of philosophy of science.

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Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · Sep 5

New website (by Alison Stone, U. Lancaster) on Julia Wedgwood (1833–1913), Victorian thinker, feminist, animal advocate & Darwin’s niece.

Explore her legacy:
www.juliawedgwood.org

The Julia Wedgwood Site | Julia Wedgwood philosopher

Explore the life and writings of Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian philosopher, critic, and member of Darwin’s circle, with resources, research materials, and her own writings.

www.juliawedgwood.org

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