Many thanks @pence and Alexandre Guay for accommodating my talk online today for the conference ‘From science to metaphysics?’ https://sciencemeta.sciencesconf.org — very sorry to miss the rest of the conference because of an annoying bug!
Historic #OceanTreaty agreed after a decade of talks. #biodiversity #UnitedNations https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64815782
From birdsite
Marvellous news. Let's hope this is not another false dawn. UK astronomy in particular has been enormously successful in @HorizonEU and its loss would be / have been a critical blow
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RT @ResFortnight
BREAKING >> New UK-EU deal ‘good news for Horizon’, says von der Leyen: “Historic” agreement clears the path for association to EU science programmes, says European Commission president. …
https://twitter.com/ResFortnight/status/1630246241916313601
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21784/ Back to #kant as my drawing board: I wrote a new paper on #cosmopolitan right, its normative foundations and some overlooked legacy of the #metaphysics of nature in understanding this important piece of Kant’s legal-political philosophy. Went down several rabbit’s holes on the key notion of ‘community’ (Third Analogy of Experience) thanks to reviewers’s comments! Forthcoming in Kantian Review and with huge thanks to guest editors A. Cooper and A. Jones!
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21784/ Back to #kant as my drawing board: I wrote a new paper on #cosmopolitan right, its normative foundations and some overlooked legacy of the #metaphysics of nature in understanding this important piece of Kant’s legal-political philosophy. Went down several rabbit’s holes on the key notion of ‘community’ (Third Analogy of Experience) thanks to reviewers’s comments! Forthcoming in Kantian Review and with huge thanks to guest editors A. Cooper and A. Jones!
On March 31 I shall be hosting a public debate in hybrid format on “Is Open Science Good for Research, featuring Helen Longino, Cameron Neylon, Rachel Ankeny and Sally Wyatt! Register online here: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12701 @StudiesOpen
Plum job: "#cOAlition_S wishes to commission a study…to identify ways in which readers and producers of scholarly publications (or their proxies, namely research #funders and #universities) could financially contribute to supporting the academic publishing services valued by their research communities as a function of their means in a manner that is globally equitable and sustainable."
https://www.coalition-s.org/developing-a-globally-fair-pricing-model-for-open-access-academic-publishing/
If you want to undertake the study, apply before March 13.
https://mms.philsci.org/members/broadcasts_print.php?iid=115191509&org_id=PSA The PSA Newsletter is out — check out a number of initiatives mentioned there: from upcoming online town hall meetings for all PSA members in March to discuss the Strategic Plan to the open Call for Papers for PSA 2023 Around the World with a focus on East Asia incl South East Asia. We invite all PSA members to submit 1000-word abstract on any topic in phil science via the EasyChair link. Please spread the word.
Question for colleagues working on #Kant: I have just found out that the digital Korpora edition of Kant’s AA at Duisburg-Essen has been down for two months because of IT hacking and only slowly coming back. Is there a backup copy of the digitised AA somewhere that one can access? Thanks for pointers!
EENPS Mentoring Initiative: Call for Mentors!
The mentoring initiative is planned as a platform through which members interested in feedback on their work in progress (journal articles, research proposals) could seek advice and comments from experienced academics.
At this stage, we are collecting information about members interested in becoming mentors. We ask everyone willing to serve this role to fill out the following form:
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Persons, Institutions, Groups
- @eyssette (collection of individual philosophers and institutions on Mastodon)
- fediphilosophy.org (philosophy dedicated Mastodon Instance)
- https://truesciphi.org/phi_mas.html (Philosophers on Mastodon with >100 followers)
The New Directions in theoretical physics conference at the Higgs Centre in Edinburgh continues (https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/124/timetable/#20230111) with a fantastic array of talks on climate science including by Profs Nana Klutse and Mouhamadou Sylla from the #AIMS - the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. #ipccar6
https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/124/overview. The New Directions in Theoretical Physics conference at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics in Edinburgh starts tomorrow with a packed 3-day programme ranging from gravitational waves to nuclear fusion, from climate science to cosmology and HEP. Online registration closes today.
Not sure how many Edinburgh-based folk are on here (and following me), but I’m giving a talk to the Old Edinburgh Club on 18 January about the city and its observatory in the 19th century
#edinburgh #observatories #history #astronomy #histsci #histSTM #histastro
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442326-unravelling-weaving-s-role-in-the-history-of-science-and-technology
“The concept of order found in weaving helped shape festivals and was used in everything from arranging ritual dances to composing poetry,” remarks Harlizius-Klück. “It also provided the basic categories of odd and even for the first number theory.” The role of weaving in the history of mathematics - from ancient Greeks to Einstein’s universe as a ‘tapestry of space and time’.
Are you interested in hearing early career researchers chat about philosophy of psychiatry? Listen to the Philosophy of Psychiatry mini-series of the Philosophy Exchange podcast, in which Bennett Knox, Jodie Russell, Johanna Sarisoy and I discuss each other's work.
Many of us waited for this to come out! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo181541288.html
Anyhow, I hope those of you who have connected with VMST in the past or who work on these kinds of things will submit an abstract!
https://ifilnova.pt/en/the-value-of-scientific-representation-classic-issues-and-contemporary-challenges/ Call for papers now open for this conference in Lisbon, 21-22 June 2023. 300-word abstracts by the deadline of end of February. Organiser: Pietro Gori. Look forward to exchanging ideas on the topic of scientific representation with Alisa Bokulich and colleagues all.
Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of 'Perspectival Realism' (OUP, 2022) fully #OpenAccess for download at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/perspectival-realism-9780197555620?cc=gb&lang=en&
President of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA, 2023-24): https://www.philsci.org/
Personal website: https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Twitter: @p_realism