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The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · Sep 18
Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky
Cobblestone pathway leading to the red-brick Institute of Philosophy building at KU Leuven in Belgium (home of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science), framed by ivy-covered walls, arched windows, and lush greenery with purple wisteria flowers in the foreground.
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Our colleague Pieter Adriaens has published a new Dutch-language introduction to #PhilMind for scientists & philosophers! He covers topics such as modularity, psychopathology, comparative psychology & free will—and much more! 👇 www.pelckmansuitgevers.be/this-is-ment... #philsci #philsky #AcademicSky
Book cover of "This is mental!" by Pieter R. Adriaens. The upper half features a detailed, stylised illustration reminiscent of a neurological diagram: black, tree-like neuronal forms branch upward and outward against a cream background, interlaced with fine lines and small annotations, while red star-shaped nodes punctuate the network, suggesting neural activity. Below the illustration, the title "This is mental!" appears prominently in large red serif lettering, followed by the subtitle "Een inleiding tot de wijsgerige psychologie" in smaller turquoise text. At the bottom, the publisher’s name, Pelckmans, is printed in a restrained, minimalist style.
February 3, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman is launching a new series of short videos highlighting the work being conducted at our centre! Here is the first one, with Bo presenting his ongoing project on assertion in indirect proof: www.youtube.com/shorts/HYpu0... Stay tuned for more 📼! #philsky #HPS #logic
What am I Doing?
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January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman is launching a new series of short videos highlighting the work being conducted at our centre! Here is the first one, with Bo presenting his ongoing project on assertion in indirect proof: www.youtube.com/shorts/HYpu0... Stay tuned for more 📼! #philsky #HPS #logic
What am I Doing?
YouTube video by Logic with Bo
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January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Scientists are investigating putative cognitive capacities in non-neuronal organisms. But how evolutionarily grounded is this approach? @alejandrofabregastejeda.com & @philosobio.bsky.social evaluate basal cognition research in their 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #evodevo #evosky #cogsci #HPS
Screenshot showing the title and publication details of the article 'On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary: Promising Avenues and Cautionary Notes' by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda and Matthew Sims, published in the journal 'History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.'
January 28, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Scientists are investigating putative cognitive capacities in non-neuronal organisms. But how evolutionarily grounded is this approach? @alejandrofabregastejeda.com & @philosobio.bsky.social evaluate basal cognition research in their 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #evodevo #evosky #cogsci #HPS
Screenshot showing the title and publication details of the article 'On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary: Promising Avenues and Cautionary Notes' by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda and Matthew Sims, published in the journal 'History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.'
January 28, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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How do we assign sizes to subsets of the natural numbers (ℕ)? Sylvia Wenmackers compares the answers given by six formalisms to gain a better understanding of the trade-offs that arise when dealing with such a vexing problem in mathematics👇 riviste.fupress.net/index.php/jp... #philsci #HPS #philmath
Promotional image highlighting the publication of a research article in the Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics. The article is titled “On the Limits of Comparing Subset Sizes within ℕ” and is authored by Sylvia Wenmackers (Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven).
January 24, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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How do we assign sizes to subsets of the natural numbers (ℕ)? Sylvia Wenmackers compares the answers given by six formalisms to gain a better understanding of the trade-offs that arise when dealing with such a vexing problem in mathematics👇 riviste.fupress.net/index.php/jp... #philsci #HPS #philmath
Promotional image highlighting the publication of a research article in the Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics. The article is titled “On the Limits of Comparing Subset Sizes within ℕ” and is authored by Sylvia Wenmackers (Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven).
January 24, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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AI heeft natuurlijk ook grote voordelen.
Goed punt van professor @lodelauwaert.bsky.social
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#AI
January 14, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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New on the Archive:

Dani, Gianmaria and Ramsey, Grant (2025) Tool Use Beyond Humans. Philosophy of Science, 92 (4). pp. 883-899. ISSN 1539-767X

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27952/
January 19, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
www.kuleuven.be
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Happy #WorldLogicDay to everyone! Check out this video 📼 showcasing some of the research on #logic being developed at the Institute of Philosophy, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8G4... If you are interested in logic, come study and do research with us! #philsky #philsci
Introduction to Logic, part 5: Research at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven
YouTube video by Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte | KU Leuven
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January 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Happy #WorldLogicDay to everyone! Check out this video 📼 showcasing some of the research on #logic being developed at the Institute of Philosophy, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8G4... If you are interested in logic, come study and do research with us! #philsky #philsci
Introduction to Logic, part 5: Research at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven
YouTube video by Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte | KU Leuven
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January 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Can peer review reliably assess the societal value and relevance of #humanities research, especially the societal contribution of published outputs? Our researchers took part in an interdisciplinary study examining these issues 👇📃 direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... #philsky #AcademicSky #HPS #metasci
Promotional image announcing a research article in the open-access journal Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). The title reads “Using peer review to evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research.” The authors listed are Stijn Conix, Leander Vignero, Olivier Lemaire, Pei-Shan Chi, and Li Lin, with institutional affiliations in Belgian universities (including KU Leuven). The left side features the red QSS journal logo and the label “an open access journal,” while the right side presents the article title, authors, affiliations, and keywords.
January 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Can peer review reliably assess the societal value and relevance of #humanities research, especially the societal contribution of published outputs? Our researchers took part in an interdisciplinary study examining these issues 👇📃 direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... #philsky #AcademicSky #HPS #metasci
Promotional image announcing a research article in the open-access journal Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). The title reads “Using peer review to evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research.” The authors listed are Stijn Conix, Leander Vignero, Olivier Lemaire, Pei-Shan Chi, and Li Lin, with institutional affiliations in Belgian universities (including KU Leuven). The left side features the red QSS journal logo and the label “an open access journal,” while the right side presents the article title, authors, affiliations, and keywords.
January 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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We usher in the year with the announcement of our new logo! It was designed by postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman and selected after close competition with many other submissions from our faculty and students! If you see this logo in the future, it means that #logic and #philsci are involved! #philsky
Blue logo of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. The design features a white hexagon inspired by skeletal (line-angle) chemical formulas, with three short line segments suggestive of bonds. Inside the hexagon are the letters “cLPs” in a serif font; the lowercase letters allude to logical notation using indices.
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
clpskuleuven.bsky.social
We usher in the year with the announcement of our new logo! It was designed by postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman and selected after close competition with many other submissions from our faculty and students! If you see this logo in the future, it means that #logic and #philsci are involved! #philsky
Blue logo of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. The design features a white hexagon inspired by skeletal (line-angle) chemical formulas, with three short line segments suggestive of bonds. Inside the hexagon are the letters “cLPs” in a serif font; the lowercase letters allude to logical notation using indices.
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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A lot of ink has been spilled over Kant’s categorical imperative. But can the 'realm of ends' be cast within a quantitative framework? Edward Roussel & Lorenz Demey use the prisoner’s dilemma to analyze Kantian game theoretic models in their recent 📃👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #philsky
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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"The Year in Neanderthals".
It is interesting to see, among other things, how the arguments regarding the #speciesproblem have evolved. Which option most deprives the #Neanderthals of their evolutionary individuality? As you know, I do have a few thoughts 🙃👇

#hpbio #philsky #evosky #paleosky 🏺
The Year in Neanderthals
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January 6, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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A lot of ink has been spilled over Kant’s categorical imperative. But can the 'realm of ends' be cast within a quantitative framework? Edward Roussel & Lorenz Demey use the prisoner’s dilemma to analyze Kantian game theoretic models in their recent 📃👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #philsky
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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In his forthcoming 📃 in @jrnlofphil.bsky.social, Grant Ramsey shows that a long-standing thesis held by philosophers of biology & evolutionary biologists—that fitness depends on population size, n—is based on conceptual & mathematical errors 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27701/ #philsky #HPBio #evosky
Promotional black-and-white image announcing the publication of an article in The Journal of Philosophy. The text displays the journal title, the article title "Much Ado About ‘N'othing," and the author’s name, Grant Ramsey, in a clean, minimalist layout.
January 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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We start the New Year with the great news of the publication of “Twelfth-Century Logic and Metaphysics: Alberic of Paris and His Contemporaries” by @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social! Please help us share & best wishes to everyone! brill.com/display/titl... #philsky #HPS #logic
Book cover with a deep burgundy background. The title reads "Twelfth-Century Logic and Metaphysics, with the subtitle Alberic of Paris and His Contemporaries." The book is edited by Heine Hansen, Enrico Donato, and Boaz Faraday Schuman. At the top appears the series title “Investigating Medieval Philosophy 27.” The Brill publisher name is shown at the bottom, alongside a stylized medieval-inspired monogram graphic.
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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New on the Archive:

Ramsey, Grant (2026) Much ado about ‘n’othing. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27701/
January 3, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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We start the New Year with the great news of the publication of “Twelfth-Century Logic and Metaphysics: Alberic of Paris and His Contemporaries” by @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social! Please help us share & best wishes to everyone! brill.com/display/titl... #philsky #HPS #logic
Book cover with a deep burgundy background. The title reads "Twelfth-Century Logic and Metaphysics, with the subtitle Alberic of Paris and His Contemporaries." The book is edited by Heine Hansen, Enrico Donato, and Boaz Faraday Schuman. At the top appears the series title “Investigating Medieval Philosophy 27.” The Brill publisher name is shown at the bottom, alongside a stylized medieval-inspired monogram graphic.
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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agristok.bsky.social
2 Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in Agricultural & Environmental Ethics at KU Leuven, Belgium

KU Leuven is offering two 4-year PhD positions in agricultural and environmental ethics within the ERC-funded BIOTA project, focusing on sustainable agriculture and plant adaptation to climate change.
2 Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in Agricultural & Environmental Ethics at KU Leuven, Belgium
KU Leuven is offering two 4-year PhD positions in agricultural and environmental ethics within the ERC-funded BIOTA project, focusing on sustainable agriculture and plant adaptation to climate change.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM