Alisa Bokulich
@alisabokulich.bsky.social
Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The sun sending us some love
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The sun sending us some love
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Hints of the aurora in Boston tonight, even with the city lights (best captured by phone camera)
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Hints of the aurora in Boston tonight, even with the city lights (best captured by phone camera)
Day 9 DIY shed build: soffits, fasciae, drip edge, roof felt, & half of the roof shingled....then it started raining 🌧️
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Day 9 DIY shed build: soffits, fasciae, drip edge, roof felt, & half of the roof shingled....then it started raining 🌧️
Some of you may know #philsci #philbio Subrena Smith, Prof of #philosophy at UNH. Her family in Jamaica lives in one of parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa: Westmoreland. She & David are raising funds to support them w/ generators, supplies, truck water in to them, etc. Please donate if can!
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some of you may know #philsci #philbio Subrena Smith, Prof of #philosophy at UNH. Her family in Jamaica lives in one of parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa: Westmoreland. She & David are raising funds to support them w/ generators, supplies, truck water in to them, etc. Please donate if can!
Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
![November 14, 2025
• [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective."
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
• [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut)
• |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
• [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)
• [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas.
• |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30
MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work?
Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions"
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreif7tjcqxyhw6ivn6cvhv7vysub34sgjn2irva263g2z6wtmhgpsbe@jpeg)
![November 13, 2025
• [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
• 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison"
Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
• 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic"
Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
• [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreibbyykhaegpswhv3pjthrdrrivitxwqrnidv4ofitkoi43qyhey5m@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Still some nice #fallfoliage hanging on this morning on my way in to BU.
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Still some nice #fallfoliage hanging on this morning on my way in to BU.
Happy World Jellyfish Day! 🪼
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Happy World Jellyfish Day! 🪼
Seeing Martha Stewart in the news reminded me to make one of my favorite Martha recipes: Scallop Shrimp Stew with leeks, carrots, and cumin.
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Seeing Martha Stewart in the news reminded me to make one of my favorite Martha recipes: Scallop Shrimp Stew with leeks, carrots, and cumin.
Day 7 of DIY shed build
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Day 7 of DIY shed build
Penultimate night of Boston Zoo Lights
November 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Penultimate night of Boston Zoo Lights
Roughly same time period as your place--1910 I think. Problem is it was built w/o a foundation right on dirt and walls are made from reclaimed fish crates shipped from Ketchikan Alaska- so whole structure is on verge of collapse! 😅
November 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Roughly same time period as your place--1910 I think. Problem is it was built w/o a foundation right on dirt and walls are made from reclaimed fish crates shipped from Ketchikan Alaska- so whole structure is on verge of collapse! 😅
Plan is to turn the old two-story carriage house/ garage / barn into an ADU and have shed for all the garage stuff. We'll see if city will permit!
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Plan is to turn the old two-story carriage house/ garage / barn into an ADU and have shed for all the garage stuff. We'll see if city will permit!
Day 5 of DIY shed build
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Day 5 of DIY shed build