how LLMs change incentives for research - a great talk by @carlbergstrom.com , had to watch in parts, a lot to digest. #institutional_epistemology at its best! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mj3... #philsci
A snapshot from last weekβs doctoral seminar in Erfurt, where our team member Murat Bakeev gave a presentation
Meet the new editors-in-chief of *EJPS*:
Catherine Herfeld & Samuel C. Fletcher
Here you can find more information about the associate editors and the editorial board of our journal:
link.springer.com/journal/1319...
#philsci
I will be one of the speakers at next year's meeting of the European Network for the Philosophy of Social Sciences. Consider sbmitting something (by March 1).
#ENPOSS, #philsci
We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science!
Details in the π§΅
Registration at this link: www.philsci.org/psa_...
Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky
π Yesterday was the official publication date of my book Conversations on Rational Choice, CUP. So, it really exists and you can order your copy (pic by @maltedold.bsky.social because I still dont own one).
Our team member, PhD candidate Murat Bakeev, spoke today at an online session of the Phil-Econ-Model-Lab (PEM-L). This workshop, funded by INEM, aims to promote collaboration among early-career scholars, with a particular focus on analyzing the role of value judgments in economic modeling.
Amazing!
Check out the presentation by Edoardo Peruzzi, postdoc in my ERC project MODEL TRANSFER, at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, talking about Formal Template Accumulation, Unification, and Scientific Progress. Here is the video: lnkd.in/dYTXH-dD
Erwin Dekker (GMU) has a new post on the conversation format and oral history in the history of economics. Check it out to see why thats an exciting approach: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/studs-terk...
Another writing group Friday morning with coffee and pastries!
Dear EPSA members, In our first newsletter of 2026, we want to announce some good news and update you on some recent developments pertaining to EPSA. The good news is that we have now secured locations not only for EPSA27 but also for EPSA29! We were very lucky this year to receive nothing less than four bids to host EPSA27; all bids were very strong and carefully prepared, and the Steering Committee found it very difficult to decide. Eventually, we settled on Warsaw, Poland, for 2027 (with Marcin Milkowski and Hajo Greif as co-chairs) and Ljubljana, Slovenia, for 2029 (with Borut Trpin as chair). More details will follow in due course, but for now, we can all be happy that the next two EPSAs are in good hands and will take place in splendid locations! This is also a good moment to thank the Steering Committee members who have concluded their term (Lilia Gurova, Federica Russo, Marcel Weber, Catherine Herfeld, Edouard Machery and Caterina Marchionni) and in particular my predecessor StΓ©phanie Ruphy as EPSA President. Thanks to their good work, the current Steering Committee has found EPSA to be in excellent shape, which will allow us to continue to serve the philosophy of science community in Europe in constructive ways. We also want to thank Dunja Ε eΕ‘elja and Mathias Frisch, who have completed their terms as Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, and to welcome Samuel Fletcher and Catherine Herfeld as the new Editors-in-Chief of EJPS. Speaking of EJPS, we will soon be announcing the Call for Papers for the Proceedings of EPSA25, with Julie Jebeile as guest editor for the Proceedings (plus a team of co-editors to be announced shortly). Finally, the EPSA BlueSky account is now managed by Simon Lohse; if you are on BlueSky, please follow us there at https://bsky.app/profile/epsaphilsci.bsky.social Warm Regards, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and the EPSA Steering Committee
π£ Letter with the latest updates on EPSA2027 *and* EPSA2029, changes in the steering committee, the proceedings for EPSA25, and more... #philsci
There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18β19 September 2026).
Submission deadline: 15 February!
Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome βοΈ
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org
#philsci
If you are looking for some philosophy of social science with a historical perspective, look no further, check out this new volume edited by Yafeng Shan:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#philsci #philsky
This was a lot of fun; thanks for the wonderful questions!
In their great podcast, I try to answer a set of challenging questions asked by Jennifer Jhun and François Allison about my book Conversations on Rational Choice and about how I would classify my work in the disciplinary landscape, among other things: hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-nine...
After some time, I could finally visit the PPE program at George Mason U again; such a good discussion (& catching up with my fellow JHET editor & former classmate Erwin Dekker). Plus: another day at the Rockefeller Archives and the New York Public Library for preparing my talk and the workshop.
π’ Call for Papers ENPOSS.
π· The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences invites submissions to its 15th Conference (Helsinki 26-28 August)
Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2026.
Notification of acceptance: 1 May, 2026.
More details:
πΉ enposs.eu
πΉ blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
At least, you get almost 500 pages for your money π
π₯ My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
π£ CFP for a topical collection in EJPS:
*Understanding Climate Change: A Multifaceted Inquiry*
link.springer.com/collections/...
Submission deadline: 01 March 2026
#philsci #climatechange
Between 1 and 4 September 2026, the #SOCRATESgroup at Leibniz University Hannover will host an interdisciplinary summer school on "Bridging the Gap: Science, Trust, and the Climate Crisis." We would be very grateful if you could share the call:
www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-even...
Of all the pitiful gestures we have witnessed to please the president, this is the most pathetic one. It shows that responsibility does not lie with him alone, but with all of us who are preparing and cleaning in different ways the playground for his toys. He said he will keep it!
Article: Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?, by Anna Alexandrova & Martin Kusch
doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...
First talk in 2026: at TU Dresden. impressive city and a really helpful discussion with @ennofischer.bsky.social, Rico Hauswald, Tamara Jugov and Pedro Schmechtling about what is interesting about model transfers and the concept of epistemic harms to think about challenges to them. #erc_research
First talk in 2026: at TU Dresden. impressive city and a really helpful discussion with @ennofischer.bsky.social, Rico Hauswald, Tamara Jugov and Pedro Schmechtling about what is interesting about model transfers and the concept of epistemic harms to think about challenges to them. #erc_research
Newly published: "Interview with Christian List", in Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), Conversations on Rational Choice, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025, philpapers.org/archive/LISI...
