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Newly published: Perspectives on Logics for Data-Driven Reasoning, edited by Hykel Hosni and Jürgen Landes. Springer, 2025. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The Reasoner (an interdisciplinary gazette for research on reasoning, inference and method) has a new format: thereasoner.org

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

How should we evaluate whether a law is effective? We can't conduct blinded trials that randomise a law to individuals, so orthodox evidence-based evaluation methods fail. My colleague Alexandra Trofimov and I argue for an approach based on Evidential Pluralism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Just arriving on my first day of a new job at Manchester university. Very excited to be joining the philosophy department here.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

If you protest against the destruction of our planet, you are more likely to be arrested in Britain than anywhere else in the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

CMU is hosting the 2025 Progic Conference on combining probability and logic. This year's focus: Theoretical Approaches to Learning and Learnability Deadline for abstracts is December 15. I cannot derive your probability of getting in, but you should submit anyway :) www.cmu.edu/progic2025/c...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a start to a mathematical philosophers starter pack. I'm having a hard time keeping track of who is here these days. Apologies if I missed you. Let me know if you want to be added or removed, or if you know anyone else who should be on here.

submitted 96 days ago • 24 comments

I'm trying to put together a history and philosophy of biology and medicine starter pack! Let me know who to add, including if that is you! go.bsky.app/UCbEmtj

submitted 96 days ago • 92 comments

SciSci starter packs! Adding a second starter pack here since we ran out of capacity with the first one: go.bsky.app/NeZvnb5 The first one can be found here: go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD Please nominate or self-nominate with an example work. Please share! #AcademicSky #SciSci #SciPol #metascience

submitted 103 days ago • 38 comments

Should explanatory considerations constrain the strengths of our beliefs? Advocates of inference to the best explanation would say yes, but I put forward some doubts in a short paper here: www.filosofiskanotiser.com/Williamson.pdf #philsky

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

The deadline for these two postdoc positions is approaching. One job for someone with expertise in evidence review and another for a philosopher of science:

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

Please circulate: we're hiring a postdoctoral research associate with expertise in philosophy of scientific method and philosophy of causality. Apply here: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... A 2nd postdoc job, for someone with expertise in evidence review and research methods, coming soon.

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

The Reasoner is a valuable institution, I read most issues. This one interviews Jon Williamson, the long time editor, and Alexandra Trofimov on evidential pluralism . Sadly the newsletter is leaving Kent due to closure of Philosophy but it's good to see Milan University Press taking over. #philsky

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This Friday we consider the importance of philosophy to higher education and society, and we celebrate the contribution of the Kent philosophy department. All welcome. www.kent.ac.uk/philosophy/c...

submitted 262 days ago • 0 comments

We are holding a workshop to celebrate the achievements of the Kent philosophy department and to mark its demise. In person or online. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/conferences/...

submitted 311 days ago • 0 comments

Petition against job cuts in Philosophy and other humanities at University of Kent @jonwilliamson.bsky.social via @msuarez.bsky.social chng.it/hCRSDLmYqH

submitted 385 days ago • 0 comments

Sadly, the University of Kent has announced plans to axe a number of smaller departments, including philosophy. 58 of us staff face redundancy, in order to fund new hirings in areas that attract more international students.

submitted 390 days ago • 4 comments

#BonfireOfTheHumanities News Courses including Anthropology English, Music and Audio Technology, Philosophy and Art History under threat at the University of Kent Canterbury and Medway. Health and Health Care also threatened. The University blames, among other factors, the impact of #Brexit.

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Slides and videos from The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties workshop organised by Deborah Mayo: errorstatistics.com/2023/12/08/1...

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Working on something related to Causation in Epidemiology and Public Health? Submit to EpiCause 2024: Causality in Epidemiology, May 2-4 in Linz. I am excited to be one of the keynotes! 400 word abstracts due Dec 11th. www.jku.at/en/institute... Please share across disciplines #philsci #episky

submitted 451 days ago • 2 comments