Angela Potochnik

@apotochnik.bsky.social

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Philosopher of science, Director of Center for Public Engagement with Science at University of Cincinnati. Books: Idealization and the Aims of Science, Recipes for Science, Science and the Public. https://www.angelapotochnik.com .. more

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · May 9

Video abstract for Melissa's and my new Element, Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project! #philsky #philsci #scicomm 🧪

Center for Public Engagement with Science @ucpews.bsky.social · May 8

We are excited to announce the official release of the first Element in the new series Elements in Public Engagement with Science!

Hear about the first Element (Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project) from the authors themselves in the video below 🤩

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Cambridge Elements | Elements in Public Engagement With Science | Defining the Project

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Anna! My talk partly drew from Ch 2 of my Science and the Public Element, where I introduce the Vienna Circle as a different model of how philosophy can engage with science and also the public, supplemented with material I've used in teaching. Happy to share the slides if you are interested.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to the first panel on history of #philsci in CEE. Inspiring that so many colleagues around the world tuned in. A wonderful first talk by Marta Sznajder on Janina Hosiasson (her heartbreaking story below). Now Angela Potochnik on the role of Marie Neurath (Reidemeister) in the Vienna Circle

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 6d

Good question! This collection is new, so I hadn't gotten around to looking into preprint sharing permissions and making a preprint available if allowed. I'll figure that out now and share (assuming possible)!

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 7d

Check out this video about the chapter Dana Tulodziecki @193.bsky.social and I wrote for the philosophy book, Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. It's a neat collection, congrats to the editor, Cliff Sosis!

#philsky #philsci #scicomm 🧪

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 10d

The history of #science is a catalogue of failure — but also a record of astonishing progress.
So why trust science now?
Philosophers Angela Potochnik & Dana Tulodziecki ask whether science reveals the nature of reality — or will just keep changing its answers.

We Can't Know If Scientific Theories Are True

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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 10d

We Can't Know If Scientific Theories Are True

YouTube video by Clifford Sosis

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Reposted by Steven French, Richard Pettigrew, Angela Potochnik

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 12d

I just learned Recipes for Science is coming out in Italian this month! That's fun. (See info about the original English-language version here: www.angelapotochnik.com/recipes.html)

#philsci #philsky #scicomm 🧪
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Reposted by Michela Massimi, Alan Richardson, Angela Potochnik

Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 24d

Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 27d

This review in Public Understanding of Science puts Melissa Jacquart's and my recent short book, Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project, in conversation with a recent introduction to science communication.

You can get a PDF of our open access Element here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Science Communication: The Basics & Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project

Review by Felicity Mellor

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Reposted by John Wilkins, Alan Richardson, Angela Potochnik

Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · Sep 19

This week, we’re joined by Professor Miriam Solomon to discuss stigma and its impact on psychiatry — how it has shaped diagnoses, DSM revisions, and ideas of what counts as disorder

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#hps #philsci #psych

S5 E9 – Miriam Solomon on How Stigma Shapes Psychiatry

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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Brendan Nyhan, Anders Nilsson , and 9 more Joanna Bryson, Brendan Nyhan, Anders Nilsson, Juan Cole, Michelle Everson, Aaron Sojourner, Colm O’Cinneíde, Siegfried Hekimi, Daxton R. Stewart, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Angela Potochnik

The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 16

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Sep 15

"...The scientific world-conception serves life, and life receives it." Good ol' Vienna Circle.

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Sep 15

"...We witness the spirit of the scientific world-conception penetrating in growing measure the forms of personal and public life, in education, upbringing, architecture, and the shaping of economic and social life according to rational principles..."

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Sep 15

"Thus, the scientific world-conception is close to the present. Certainly it is threatened with hard struggles and hostility. Nevertheless there are many who do not despair but, in view of the present sociological situation, look forward with hope to the course of events to come..."

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yay more PSA for me!

Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · Sep 11

ICYMI: the latest newsletter is out. A warm welcome to our new Governing Board members @apotochnik.bsky.social @hkandersen.bsky.social and to our new Nominating Committee members Wendy Parker, @thebusyowl.bsky.social and Adrian Currie!

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Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · Sep 11

Philosophy of Science Association

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)

PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association

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Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨Project 🚨My project “Human Genomics without Racism” kicks off during #ISHPSSB25.

Join us for the Symposium “Values, Bias, and Controversies” on Monday 21, 14:30.

#philsky
#popgen
#evosky
#STS
#biological
#HPbio

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The Human Genomics without Racism (HUGERA) project brings together geneticists, philosophers, and social scientists to create tools for an ethically sound science of human variation. Latest News

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Reposted by Chris Stringer, Steven French, John Wilkins , and 1 more Chris Stringer, Steven French, John Wilkins, Angela Potochnik

Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · Jul 20

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

Philosophy of Biology

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Markus Ilkka Eronen @mieronen.bsky.social · Jul 12

What is more useful for explaining human behavior, neuroscience or folk psychology? In this new book chapter, co-authored with Laura Bringmann, we argue for the latter. Featuring mirror neurons, tiny worms, and Steve buying a banana! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) On worms, mirror neurons and explaining human behavior

PDF | A key challenge for psychological theorizing is: At what level(s) should we look for the best explanations and predictions of human behavior? The... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Reposted by Thomas Arnold, Nigel Warburton, Sarah Bracke , and 3 more Thomas Arnold, Nigel Warburton, Sarah Bracke, Scott Hill, Angela Potochnik, David Spurrett

Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · Jun 20

Dear all,

Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers.

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks to Ricardo Lopes for interviewing me about Recipes for Science, coauthored with Matteo Colombo and Cory Wright (2nd edition released 2024). You can find links to the YouTube video and podcast at www.thedissenter.net. #philsky #philsci #science

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Jun 13

Mass protests matter. Tomorrow's No Kings National Day of Action will send a clear message that millions of people from all walks of life oppose the Trump administration’s illegal power grab. Find your local event here: nokings.org

No Kings

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Jun 9

Collin's dissertation explores the nature of maker's knowledge and, accordingly, how engineering is central to science's cumulative progress. I think the project is truly innovative and important.

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Jun 9

Congratulations to Collin Lucken for successfully defending his dissertation, Engineering Progress in Science! Thanks to Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social, the large face looming on the wall, for tremendously helpful involvement as external committee member. @ucphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Jun 3

Great job on the dissertation and defense, Mel! We look forward to seeing where your work goes from here. Our committee photo is unfortunately missing Colin Allen, who was an excellent external committee member.

Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · Jun 3

Congratulations to Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social for successfully defending their dissertation, The Math is Not the Territory: On the Uses & Abuses of Machine Learning & Other Mathematical Modelling Strategies! #philsky #philsci @ucphilosophy.bsky.social

Photo of four philosophers standing in a row: Tony Chemero, Mel Andrews, Zvi Biener, Angela Potochnik

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Center for Public Engagement with Science @ucpews.bsky.social · May 8

Cambridge Elements | Elements in Public Engagement With Science | Defining the Project

YouTube video by UC Center for Public Engagement with Science

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · May 6

May 8 is also the launch of the series Melissa and I are editing with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, Elements in Public Engagement with Science. There's 12+ other Elements in progress by amazing authors from different fields. Learn about the series and find our volume: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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