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Philosophy of Science, History of Physics; Postdoc University of Antwerp (Belgium)
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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social · Dec 4
Hi (new) followers, I am a postdoc in history and/of philosophy of science. In the past, I have worked on the history of early twentieth-century electron experiments (see e.g. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...). Nowadays, my focus is on Thomas Kuhn's historical work ...
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Dear BlueSky friends, does anybody by any chance have access to this book-review? Many thanks!

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Anke te Heesen: Revolutionäre im Interview. Thomas Kuhn, Quantenphysik und Oral History
Article Anke te Heesen: Revolutionäre im Interview. Thomas Kuhn, Quantenphysik und Oral History was published on January 1, 2024 in the journal WerkstattGeschichte (volume 32, issue 89).
www.degruyterbrill.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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CFA: 100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future - October 20–24, 2025 - @perimeterinstitute.ca, Waterloo, Canada
Abstract deadline is August 24, 2025
Details: events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/1013/ (via Doreen Fraser) #HPS ⚛️
100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future
In July 1925, Heisenberg published his paper on matrix mechanics, followed shortly thereafter (in early 1926) by Schrodinger’s paper on wave mechanics. As such, 2025 is the centenary of the modern qua...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
Cfp: HOPOS 2026 Sixteenth Biennial Congress of International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22-26 June 2026

Call for paper & symposium proposals. Deadline: 30 September 2025, 11:59 (PT). Submit at congress web site: hopos2026.dryfta.com
#HPS
HOPOS 2026
Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea
hopos2026.dryfta.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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ptrbck.bsky.social
Samen met enkele collega's schreef ik een stuk in Apache waarin we ons distantiëren van de associate van onze vakgroep met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
apache.be/2025/07/04/r...
Racistische pseudowetenschap hoort niet thuis aan de universiteit
Vakgroepleden distantiëren zich van haar associatie met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
apache.be
July 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
janpotters.bsky.social
Very eager to see this into print, with a chapter by @masssimons.bsky.social and me on the history of philosophy of experimentation. Immense respect for the work by Adam and Flavia on this huge book
June 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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masssimons.bsky.social
🧵1/ I'm happy to share my new article just published in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science:

"Political philosophy of experimentation"
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #STS #politicalphilosophy
Political philosophy of experimentation - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
In this article, I sketch out the contours of a political philosophy of experimentation. Drawing on the work of Joseph Rouse, Hans Radder, Gilbert Hottois, and Jerome Ravetz, I argue that such a polit...
link.springer.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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'Appropriating Empowerment: Precision Medicine’s Proclivity to Epistemic Injustice' by Daan Kenis has just been published open access
Appropriating Empowerment: Precision Medicine’s Proclivity to Epistemic Injustice | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Appropriating Empowerment: Precision Medicine’s Proclivity to Epistemic Injustice
www.cambridge.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social
Newly advertised PhD position supervised by Marij van Strien.

The focus is on philosophical discussions around physics in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Possible topics include conceptions of causality, chance, emergence, or chaos theory.
PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
May 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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ennofischer.bsky.social
Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 3-year PhD position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 28.06.2024. For details: tinyurl.com/3eb2f667
#philsci #philsky
Job ad for position in DFG project: "Progress through Principles: An Epistemology of Foundational Assumptions Guiding Contemporary Physics"
May 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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For Belgian residents and visitors: we are screening the short film Data Shadows at VUB in Brussels on May 21 at 18, please come along & pass the word! It would be great to see you there.

More info on the film: opensciencestudies.eu/datashadowsf... #philsci #art #science @edinitiative.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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In the new #HOPOS issue Fons Dewulf proposes a new "framework to describe the dynamics of academized twentieth-century philosophy in relation to its social and institutional context".

#hps #philsky

Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Journal logo in blue plus readable text available at link in post
May 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Wybo Houkes and I are hiring a PhD student to work on an exciting project in Philosophy of Science 😊
The application deadline is May 18. Please spread the word and consider applying 👇
#AcademicSky
www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
PhD on Philosophy of Science
www.tue.nl
May 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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masssimons.bsky.social
Come join us in @maastrichtu.bsky.social, Assistant Professorship in Health Law and Ethics #bioethics #techethics #sts #philsci
April 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Attending the 10th conference for Integrated #HPS at @caltech.edu. Many talks mention the work of George Smith, including Marius Stan's keynote address, Michael Veldman's talk on Du Châtelet, and Teru Miyake's talk on the measurement of physical constants.

philpeople.org/profiles/geo...
George E. Smith (Tufts University) - PhilPeople
George E. Smith is a professor at Tufts University, Department of Philosophy. Follow them to stay up to date with their professional activities in philosophy, and browse their publications such as "Hu...
philpeople.org
March 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
Come do a PhD with Andreas Stynen and me! On witchcraft heritage and historical culture in the Low Countries since 1800 (excellent knowledge of Dutch is essential)

#hextag

www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
PhD vacancy: remembering of the persecutions of witches in the Low Countries since 1800 - heritage and historical culture
Remembering the 'witch craze'
www.kuleuven.be
March 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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📢Call for applications📢 for the interdisciplinary HPS PhD project "Continuities and discontinuities in understanding the origin of mass" jointly @unibonn.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Full advert here: history-of-maths.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/global-docto.... Deadline Feb 21.
Global Doctoral Scholarship – Bonn-StAndrews – History of Mathematics at St Andrews
history-of-maths.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mvandyck.bsky.social
The Department of Philosophy and Moral Science at Ghent University is hiring a TT assistant professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy. Deadline for applications: 20 January.
Spread the word!
Professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF)
Professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF)
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January 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Call for IUHPST Essay Prize in History & Philosophy of Science
Submission deadline: 15 January 2025
This biennial prize competition seeks to encourage fresh methodological thinking on the history and philosophy of science and related areas. Prize of $1,000 US #HPS
iuhpst.org/pages/inter-...
IUHPST - International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
iuhpst.org
January 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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TT Position for Professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy at Ghent University.

Ghent is a great city to live and work in, and some great philosophy is happening there.

jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Pr...
Professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF)
Professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF)
jobs.ugent.be
December 27, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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masssimons.bsky.social
What is historical epistemology? This Friday, I will attempt to answer that question in online talk for the EPSA epistemic diversity seminar. All can join! #philsci

philsci.eu/Epistemic-Di...
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - Epistemic Diversity in European Philosophy of Science (Online Seminar Series)
philsci.eu
December 4, 2024 at 7:41 AM
janpotters.bsky.social
Hi (new) followers, I am a postdoc in history and/of philosophy of science. In the past, I have worked on the history of early twentieth-century electron experiments (see e.g. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...). Nowadays, my focus is on Thomas Kuhn's historical work ...
online.ucpress.edu
December 4, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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mbmcnulty.bsky.social
Somebody had to do it! Here's a History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Starter Pack.

Reply or DM if you want to be added to or subtracted from the list! I tried my best, but there are certainly many HOPOI whom I missed. #hopos #philsky #philosophy #philsci #hps #histsci

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December 3, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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I’m thrilled to co-chair, with Marie I. Kaiser, the PC of the 10th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, to be held in Groningen on August 27-30, 2025.

The conference CFP is out: philsci.eu/EPSA25/CfP

Deadline for submissions is January 31.

Hope to see you there!
November 25, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
Via Agnes Bolinska:
Internat'l Union History & Philosophy of Science & Technology invites subm for 2025 IUHPST Essay Prize in #HPS. Unpublished essay 5-10k wds addressing persistent methodological challenges in integrating history & philosophy of science #HPS. Prize $1,000. Open all
Due 15 Jan 2025
September 28, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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November 13, 2024 at 3:17 AM