Applications now open! Join me, Valia Allori, Andrea Di Biagio, Federico Laudisa, and Alyssa Ney in Urbino in June for the XXIX International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics: History and Philosophy of the Wave Function.
Application deadline March 29.
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Our Digital Hate and Harms Team has just released a new microsite to document and share information about symbols used by hate groups from around the world. monitoring-glossary.bellingcat.com
Happy holidays from the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social!
Great news from the MCMP: Tom Sterkenburg has received the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Award from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
A terrific and well-deserved recognition of his work on induction, statistics, and machine learning! badw.de/en/die-akade...
Excited to share that our edited volume "Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology" (with Michael Cuffaro) is coming out soon with OUP.
Details here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
My co-edited volume, with @stephanhartmann.bsky.social, on Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology, is available for pre-order: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Domain-General Cognitive Ability In subject area: Psychology Domain-general cognitive abilities refer to cognitive skills that are not unique to humans but are present across various primate species and potentially other mammals and birds, indicating a general factor underlying cognitive performance that correlates with brain size and is associated with selective attention and working memory capacity. AI generated definition based on: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012
Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
Happy Canada Day from my home the next couple of years — Ankara, Turkey!
Here I bid farewell to the U.S. With some reflections on the country as I experienced it in 12 years as a foreign correspondent.
(And reflections on life covering you-know-who)
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A review by Emily Conover of the new book on Women in the History of Quantum Physics (Beyond Knabenphysik) is out: www.sciencenews.org/article/the-...
Over the next week we'll be attending two philosophy of physics conferences @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social:
Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics
The Logic, Mathematics &Physics Graduate Conference. #philsky #philphysics
To register/attend remotely: www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/2025-a...
Just released by the Institute of Art and Ideas (@iai.tv): Stephan Hartmann (of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social) on why "A theory of everything will never work at all scales"
"Reality is fundamentally different at different sizes."
Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
Ripping off content to train AI wasn’t going to fly with either MAGA populists or MAGA media.
www.theverge.com/politics/666...
Friends, Romans, countrymen! I'm giving a talk this week at Università Roma Tre on scientific realism. Come by if you're in Rome; it's also online.
“No only to anti-realism”: Some skeptical thoughts on scientific realism.
Thurs, May 15, 2025, 11 am CEST
Location in first comment.
Latest: How a deepfake video infiltrated Indian media coverage of the escalating India and Pakistan conflict…
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⚡️ Hegseth reportedly ordered Ukraine aid pause without Trump's knowledge.
The suspension affected 11 shipments of artillery shells and weapons from Dover Air Force Base and a U.S. base in the United Arab Emirates.
Liverpool 5-1 win over Tottenham triggers seismic tremors at Anfield
Fascinating piece, much of it based on the work of Elise Crull and Guido Bacciagaluppi #philsci #philsky #hps
Harborough FC ‘surprised’ as 100 Spanish fans turn up to watch game
⚡️ Fox News labels Kyiv a Russian city, Ukraine calls for 'apology and investigation.'
The error reportedly remained on screen for 20 minutes.
The Kyiv Independent spoke with Donald Trump's "spiritual advisor," Pastor Mark Burns, to find out more about his visit and why he's now urging everyone to "throw politics out the window" and back Ukraine.
Roman Frigg and I have revised our entry on Models in Science for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is now online. plato.stanford.edu/entries/mode...
Whoa. The US’s annual list of trade complaints is out. And here’s a new one for Canada:
Quebec’s language law, Bill 96. The US had already begun complaining about it, and now it’s officially on its target list.
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Sam Fletcher this Tuesday. live streamed on YouTube at www.youtube.com/channel/UCrR... or you can join with Zoom at pitt.zoom.us/j/95178246353 #philsci
