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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 · 1d

Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989.

Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 2d

In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century.

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 10d

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026

NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️

HOPOS 2026

Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

hopos2026.dryfta.com

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 5d

Important addendum: The full citation information for the #HOPOS article in question is Siska De Baerdemaeker
and Mike D. Schneider, "Better Appreciating the Scale of It: Lemaître and de Sitter at the BAAS Centenary".

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

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Hanna Lucia Worliczek @hworliczek.bsky.social · 5d

#Job #PhilSci #HPS
Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451...
On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S...

The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...

uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 5d

The new Cambridge Element on Philosophy of Cosmology by Siska de Baerdemaeker is available for free download until Friday, October 3.

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

De Baerdemaeker's article in #HOPOS on the history of cosmology can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics

www.cambridge.org

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Institute of Philosophy LUH @iphilluh.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in #PhilosophyOfBiology? Check out the new Cambridge Elements on "The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking" by @thomasreydon.bsky.social. Available #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #evobio

The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

www.cambridge.org

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 19d

The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) has just joined Bluesky! If you’re interested in #logic, epistemology, general #philsci, or the philosophy of the special sciences, consider following @clpskuleuven.bsky.social for updates on publications, events, and much more! 👇 #HPS #philsky

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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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Aug 21

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

The Organism-Environment Pairing

In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucia...

mitpress.mit.edu

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 9d

In the Spring 2025 issue of #HOPOS Anna Bellomo writes on the history of the formalist tradition in mathematics, focusing on the 'principle of permanence of equivalent forms' in George Peacock and Hermann Hankel.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 11d

“[Mind] is an added property assumed by a feeling creature, when it reaches that organized interaction with other living creatures which is language, communication. Then the qualities of feeling become significant of objective differences in... (1/3)

John Dewey seated with two others in preparation for a radio broadcast for NBC's Section of Fine Arts in 1940

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 17d

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.

Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science

employment.ku.dk

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 11d

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry

Submit work that examines how Hacking’s historical and pragmatic approach to philosophy has reshaped inquiries into psychiatry.

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 11d

The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry (AAPP) invites entries for its student & trainee essay competition!
📝 Eligible: undergrads & grads (phil, psych, related fields), med students, and residents/fellows in psychiatry.
📅 Deadline: Dec 7
🔗 Details: aapp.press.jhu.edu/j...

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 12d

The book reviews in #HOPOS, under the editorship of Trevor Pearce, are not to be missed.

In the latest issue, Alexis Dianda reviews Emma K. Sutton's _William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician._ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 14d

"Spinoza on Space and Motion"

By Stephen Harrop

In the latest issue of #HOPOS.

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

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Rory D. Kent @feyerabender.bsky.social · 29d

My article in HOPOS, "Feyerabend, Freedom, and the Tyranny of Science" is now available ahead of print over at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 16d

A new #HOPOS paper from Tivadar Vervoort on the relations between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School and the French epistemologists including Michel Foucault.

“Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms

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Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy @jhaponline.bsky.social · 22d

Hi there, we are the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy! (JHAP) We are a philosophical journal publishing articles on, well, the history of analytic philosophy! Follow us for updates on the journal.

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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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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 18d

Here is the link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Snait B. Gissis. Lamarckism and the Emergence of ‘Scientific’ Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France. Cham: Springer, 2024. Pp. xxviii+320. $129.99 (cloth). ISBN 978-3-031-52755-5. |...

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 19d

Revival of Lamarckism in #HOPOS!

Now that we have your attention: In our latest issue Maurizio Meloni reviews Snait B. Gissis's _Lamarckism and the Emergence of ‘Scientific’ Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France_.

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 21d

In the latest #HOPOS Fenner Tanswell, Brendan Larvor & Colin Rittberg "examine the origins of the dialectical approach to the philosophy of mathematics."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 22d

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin.

It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Conference title: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, and image of Lewontin in Black and White with intense expression in front of a chalkboard holding up a fist,
When and Where
Friday, October 10, 2025 11:30 am to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00 pm
Music Room (218)
Goldring Student Centre
150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 | and online via Zoom

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