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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · Jul 30

Our project "New Approaches to Evidence: Theoretical and Practical Developments" (NATE) has been awarded funding by the Spanish Ministry!
Over the next 3 years, we’ll host workshops, conferences, and even hire a PhD student at @vlc-lab.bsky.social .
More details coming soon—stay tuned!
#PhilSci

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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎓 The 2024–25 academic year has been a period of growth and consolidation for the VlC Philosophy LAB.

Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇

🙃A RT is always appreciated!

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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our paper “Mapping the Communication of Science” (with V. Crupi) is already available in THEORIA We aim to illuminate and (partly) systematise the diversity of science communication doi.org/10.1387/theo...
#PhilSci #SciComm

Mapping the communication of science | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science

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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · May 22

Great initiative!

European Philosophy of Science Association @epsaphilsci.bsky.social · May 21

🎓Are you looking to build essential skills for your academic career? Join Thriving as a Junior Scholar, an online event series designed to support early-career researchers in philosophy of science!

📆 Selected Tuesdays & Thursdays, June–July, 10:00 or 16:00 CEST
📍Online

👉 philsci.eu/Thriving-as-...

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Caterina Marchionni @catemar.bsky.social · May 20

Call for applications: 3 PhD Scholarships in social ontology / social cognition. Deadline: 9.06. 2025. The scholarships are funded by the University of Milan on the project The Normative Roots of Social Kinds”. More details can be found here: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Apply

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Elena Popa @elenapopaphi.bsky.social · May 17

Early career philosophers of science may be interested in this online series providing career advice organized by EPSA. I will also be speaking at the session discussing postdocs and tenure-track opportunities: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Students: EPSA Online Series

Thriving as a Junior Scholar – EPSA Online Series Students Are you looking to build essential skills for your academic career? Join Thriving as a Junior Scholar, an online event series designed to su...

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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · May 5

Pablo García-Barranquero and I have just published OA a paper on SENS and HoA. We consider (some aspects of) their methodological and philosophical basis. #philsci #aging

doi.org/10.1007/s105...

SENS vs. the hallmarks of aging: competing visions, shared challenges - Biogerontology

Aging research is often framed within pluralistic frameworks that emphasize cellular and molecular damage processes. Among the most influential are Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SEN...

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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks for sharing!

Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · Mar 24

Looks great!!

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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Valencia Philosophy Lab is now on bsky! Follow us for news about events, calls, and publications. bsky.app/profile/vlc-...

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Feb 9

Proposals for formalising evidence evaluation fascinate n disturb me. It's notable that a certain type of study strongly predicts policy success. But the key lesson from recent #philsci that evidence is only strong when you can *combine* different types of it into a robust theory of change.

Kai Ruggeri @ruggeri.bsky.social · Feb 9

In a study of 100 policies & 250 policymakers, we find that a) there's no such thing as the "best" type of evidence, and b) the scale of evidence used in decisions can be a strong predictor of policy effectiveness.

Freely available to all @policysciences.bsky.social

Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes - Policy Sciences

With growing interest in more formalized applications of scientific evidence to policy, there are concerns about what evidence is selected and applied, and for what purpose. We present an initial argu...

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SLMFCE @slmfce.bsky.social · Feb 7

Llamada para la Participación en el Premio al Mejor TFM 2023/24 de la SLMFCE.

solofici.org/llamada-para...

Llamada para la Participación en el Premio al Mejor TFM 2023-24 de la SLMFCE | Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España

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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · Nov 30

We explore and discuss the prospects of evidential pluralism in public health. We consider the difficulties for obtaining evidence of mechanisms and assess the role of ABM as mechanistic studies.

Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · Nov 30

Our paper (w/ Iranzo) “Evidence and Computer Simulations in Public Health” have just been published (OA). #philsci

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evidence and Computer Simulations in Public Health - Global Philosophy

In the last decades, the evidence-based approach has become dominant in the biomedical sciences. Its influence has extended from clinical practice to other areas such as drug regulation and public hea...

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