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Philosophy PhD student at the University of Cincinnati & Bird-photographer 🐦‍⬛ Phil Mind, Anthropology, Embodied Cognitive Science & Phil of Psychiatry. From the most beautiful city in Germany (Giessen).
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Watch this interview with Muhammad U. Faruque about his work on the intersections of Islamic and Western philosophy, cosmopolitanism, the self, and the environment at the University of Cincinnati. Link to full video: youtu.be/YW1L5euKz3Q #Self #Philosophy #EasternPhilosophy #Dialogue #Environment

Best way to avoid distresing news?? Turn off the portal, buckle up with an awesome book, freshly off the press, about what it means to live with mental distress and how to best to respond to it to lead a flourishing life; and learn that these can all be proper objects of scientific inquiry!

Interested in the discussion around medical vs. neurodiversity models? Check out PhD Student Ilir Isufi’s (@ilirisufi.bsky.social) brief open peer commentary in AJOB Neuroscience: www.tandfonline.com/... #philsky

All you ever wanted to know about philosophy departments, but were too busy teaching and doing your own research to ask. A new report provides valuable data about departments of philosophy and 13 other humanities fields...

🚨 Final Reminder: PSA Around the World 2025! 🌍 Submit your abstract until tomorrow (April 13, 11:59 PM PST)! Open to all PSA members, no matter where you're located or what your topic is—as long as it’s within the philosophy of science!

The 253 most-cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (1) Rawls, A Theory of Justice; (2) Kripke, Naming and Necessity; (3) Parfit, Reasons and Persons; (4) Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; (5) Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

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🔔 Reminder: PSA Around the World 2025! 🌍 Submit your abstract until April 13, 11:59 PM PST! Open to all PSA members, no matter where you're located or what your topic is—as long as it’s within the philosophy of science!

I’m full of gratitude for this review. Reading that Awais sees my book as his ‘new go-to reference for psychiatric diagnostic reasoning’ and that ‘any future conceptual work on this subject would build on or would have to seriously engage with it’ means a lot to me. #philsky #psysky #psychiatry

Philosophers are among those eligible to apply to this postdoc with the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. Our department @ucphilosophy.bsky.social would be happy to engage with anyone in the position interested in our work. #philsky

Deadline Extended for PSA Around the World 2025! 🌍 More time to submit your abstract—the portal is open until 🗓️ April 13, 11:59 PM PST! Open to all PSA members, no matter where you're located or what your topic is—as long as it’s within the philosophy of science! #philsky #philsci

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🚨 Last day to submit your abstract for PSA Around the World 2025 🌍 Focus: Eastern & Central Europe! 🗓️ Deadline: Today! (March 31, 2025) 💻 Fully online, Nov 6, 14, 22 $50 fee (waivers available) More info: philsci.org/psa_arou... 📄 Submit here: http://psaatw25.scie...

🔔 Reminder: The next PSA Office Hour features an entire panel! Mark your calendars for the April Panel Discussion on Philosophers of Science in Industry: Biotechnology, Medical Affairs, and AI! 📅 Thursday, April 4th, 2025 🕛 12:00 PM EST 🔗 docs.google.com/form...

Just a few more days to submit your abstract for PSA Around the World 2025 🌍 Focus: Eastern & Central Europe! 🗓️ Deadline: March 31, 2025 💻 Fully online, Nov 6, 14, 22 $50 fee (waivers available) More info: philsci.org/psa_arou... 📄 Submit here: http://psaatw25.scie...

The next PSA Office Hour features an entire panel! Mark your calendars for the April Panel Discussion on Philosophers of Science in Industry: Biotechnology, Medical Affairs, and AI! 📅 Thursday, April 4th, 2025 🕛 12:00 PM EST 🔗 docs.google.com/form...

Many new books in philosophy of science at a glance!

Undergrads interested in philosophy of science? Please share that applications are open for our summer development program! lpssdp.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

🗣️ PSA Office Hour Grad students & early career researchers: Want to chat with a philosopher about anything in philosophy of science? Just fill out the “Request a Professor” form, and we’ll contact the professor and organize a meeting for you! ✍️:docs.google.com/form... #PhilSky

Check out Professor Tony Chemero's (@tonychemero.bsky.social) recent feature in the Guardian article ‘All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot’! Here’s the link 👇 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Looking for philosophy of science journals? 📚 The PSA website has a dedicated journals page - a great resource for the field! Check it out: www.philsci.org/jour... Find a missing favorite? 📄 Submit journal suggestions via the link at the bottom of the page! #PhilSky

Don't forget to submit your abstract: PSA Around the World 2025 🌍 Focus: Eastern & Central Europe. 🗓️ Deadline: March 31, 2025 💻 Fully online, Nov 6, 14, 22 $50 fee (waivers available). More info: philsci.org/psa_arou... 📄 Submit abstracts: http://psaatw25.scie...

Our Spring philosophy newsletter is now available, featuring faculty and student highlights, upcoming events, and what our department has been up to! Consider subscribing for future newsletters that come out each semester! Read the latest newsletter and subscribe here:

I was contemplating how to share this but the internet moves fast (and nothing slips past @miikeessttuuart.bsky.social 🙏) This builds on so many conversations with wonderfully open-minded and curious people on our discipline and I hope it will initiate many more🧡 #philsky #philsci

We’re hiring! Postdoc in comparative philosophy or history of philosophy with 1-1 teaching load, including a grad seminar in the postdoc’s AOS. Please email search committee chair Eduardo Martinez with any questions. #philsky #philjobs philjobs.org/job/show/28842

Levels of Explanation (eds. Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson) is now out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social--open access; grab the PDF! My chapter, Antireductionism Has Outgrown Levels, argues that the idea that explanations come in levels has led philosophers astray...

Looks very interesting and is open access!

Join the PSA Newsletter! 🌐 Stay in the loop with the latest in philosophy of science! The PSA newsletter delivers monthly updates on events, publications, and opportunities in the field. 📩 Sign up here: mms.philsci.org/memb...

We are hiring a postdoc. philjobs.org/job/show/28842

1/3 Just published my review of Language as an Ecological Phenomenon. 🌿 The volume redefines ecolinguistics by emphasizing “languaging”—the dynamic, social process of creating meaning—instead of abstract theories of language: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great project by @philsci.bsky.social, sign up if you are a philosophy student and you can chat with professors about their work or whatever you want! I joined the last one and it was amazing 🤩

Newsletter @philsci.bsky.social out — warm welcome to President Craig Callender. With him and President-Elect Alan Love I invite PSA members to donate to @psa-upss.bsky.social and DEI caucus—remaining firmly committed to support our wonderfully diverse community mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...

Reminder: PSA Around the World 2025 🌍 Focus: Eastern & Central Europe. Call for abstracts is open! 🗓️ Deadline: March 31, 2025 💻 Fully online, Nov 6, 14, 22 $50 fee (waivers available). More info: philsci.org/psa_arou... 📄 Submit abstracts: http://psaatw25.scie...

New PSA subdivision for postdocs!

Second talk in Historical & Philosophical Literacy As Core Elements of Scientific Proficiency session at #AAASmtg #HPS is @mjacquart.bsky.social on what philosophy of science can contribute to public engagement with science.

Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project, by @mjacquart.bsky.social and me, is now out! For an interdisciplinary audience, the book introduces resources and principles for effective public engagement with science. Open access, free PDF at this link. #scicomm #sciengage #philsci #science

Maël Lemoine's Cambridge Element on "Philosophy of Physiology" is free to download for one month

Forderungen von #IchBinHanna im Bundestagswahlkampf 2025 als Video und als Dokument: ichbinhanna.wordpress.com/stellungnahme/

My latest commentary is out in AJOB Neuroscience 🧠. I discuss why people might invoke either the medical or the neurodiversity model of disorder, responding to Julia Knopes' paper. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We've got an excellent line-up in both philosophy and neuroscience for our first conference! Submit your abstracts by Feb 1 and join us in St. Louis in early May!