Hooded 2 of my fabulous PhD students Aja Watkins & Federica Rocky Bocchi this evening 🎉So proud of these two truly amazing scholars--it was an honor & pleasure to be their advisor. 🥰 Keep an eye out for their superb #philsci work! 💫
federica-bocchi.com
ajawatkins.org

For those interested in philosophical critiques of Intelligent Design as a competing theory to Darwinian Evolution, see the two fantastic papers on Intelligent Design by Sebastian Lutz, which are freely available here:

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8611/1/lutz-em…

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8612/1/lutz-em…

I put together a 9-page summary of my recent MA Seminar 'Discrimination Through the Lens of Philosophy of Science', since I'd never seen a course with this scope & think it might be of general interest. Comments welcome. (Link to readings in 1st comment)

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23176/

Blast from the past!

Adolf Grünbaum was the founding director of the Center in 1960

During his time, our Annual Lecture Series started–a forum for original work in the philosophy and history of science

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An actual #philsci paper on this
elifesciences.org/articles/44929

Applications are open for our Journalist-in-Residence Program 2025!

🔬Work on your own journalistic project
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I'll post the final preprint soon, but for now I'm pleased to announce that my paper with Porter Williams and Jim Woodward, 'The Worldly Infrastructure of Causation' has been accepted for publication The BJPS.

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22125/

As promised, here's the final pre-print for 'The Worldly Infrastructure of Causation' (w/ Porter Williams and Jim Woodward forthcoming Ben). Thanks to all the people who were supportive of the project while we were writing the paper.

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23245/

Are you interested in #behavior , #cognition & integrated approaches that take into account the role of the #environment ? Then join us for this International School in the stunning medieval hilltop town of Erice! Open to all career stages!👇neurobehav2024.org/home #cogsci #philsci

Congratulations to Emilie Snell-Rood for her recent Stanley-Dagley Samuel Kirkwood Undergraduate Education Award!
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New Episode Today!

Join us for our 5th episode of Conversations at the Center,

Our Director, Edouard Machery, talks with John Norton, Distinguished Professor at the History and Philosophy of Science department in the University of Pittsburgh
ow.ly/lo6w50RJFLt

YouTube Highlight: Thomas Icard, ALS & Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture Speaker!

The Center would like to take this moment to highlight our Live-Stream video of Thomas Icard on
'Causal Abstraction and Computation Explanation'

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Our Mission!
The Center for Philosophy of Science fosters the development of the best, new work in philosophy of science.

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the more i listen to ppl of all stripes talking about llms and/or human language the more i believe philsci should be a necessary component of grad school (certainly i wish i'd had more exposure earlier)

The podcast on Léon Brunschvicg we all were waiting for #hopos #philsci EpistHist

We are excited to start into the winter lecturing term! 🤓
Last week, we already welcomed new students in our #PhilSci Master's program. This week, all other classes are starting.
Welcome to our newcomers, and welcome back to everyone else!😊

Call for papers (ENG / SPA / POR)
#Philosophy #PhilSci

Full call at: revistamutatismutandis.com/index.php/muta…

Today, I had the pleasure of discussing some ideas from my book project with the members of the History and Philosophy of Biology Study Group Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology. I was so elated that I forgot to take a picture! But here is the amazing poster they prepared! #philsci #philbio #histsci

New on the BJPS Review of Books:

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
by Nina Emery

—Reviewed by Jo Wolff

Read it here:  thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/…

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