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History of philosophy of science.

Link to our latest issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/current

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The Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study."

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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In the latest issue of #HOPOS Jacob McDowell notes the surprising fact that Thomas Kuhn endorses "aspects of the causal theory [of reference] in several later essays while maintaining the possibility of incommensurability".

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November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism."

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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Manuel Fasko writes in the latest #HOPOS about ""Mary Shepherd’s Influence on Mary Somerville on Induction."

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November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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In the latest #HOPOS, Ties van Gemert analyzes a 1968 lecture by the French historian and philosopher of science Suzanne Bachelard (1919–2007), titled “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.

Van Gemert's paper can be read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Our newest issue culminates #HOPOS's 15th year in publication.
Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
#philsky #histsci
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November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.

"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"

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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The new Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century.

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October 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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In the Spring 2025 issue of #HOPOS Anna Bellomo writes on the history of the formalist tradition in mathematics, focusing on the 'principle of permanence of equivalent forms' in George Peacock and Hermann Hankel.

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September 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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The book reviews in #HOPOS, under the editorship of Trevor Pearce, are not to be missed.

In the latest issue, Alexis Dianda reviews Emma K. Sutton's _William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician._ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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September 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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"Spinoza on Space and Motion"

By Stephen Harrop

In the latest issue of #HOPOS.

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September 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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A new #HOPOS paper from Tivadar Vervoort on the relations between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School and the French epistemologists including Michel Foucault.

“Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms

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September 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Revival of Lamarckism in #HOPOS!

Now that we have your attention: In our latest issue Maurizio Meloni reviews Snait B. Gissis's _Lamarckism and the Emergence of ‘Scientific’ Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France_.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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In the latest #HOPOS Fenner Tanswell, Brendan Larvor & Colin Rittberg "examine the origins of the dialectical approach to the philosophy of mathematics."

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September 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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In "Disciplinary Bounds and Their Upkeep", Fons Dewulf "lay[s] out a framework to describe the dynamics of academized twentieth-century philosophy in relation to its social and institutional context." #HOPOS

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September 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The history of philosophy of science journal #HOPOS posts regularly on social media. Follow us to keep up with new papers and events. Of course, our new papers might be about 300 year old theories, and we like it that way. Don't forget to tag posts: #HOPOS
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September 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Ever wondered about the influences on the Tractatus? In our Spring 2025 issue Matthew Coates argues that Wittgenstein's remarks on the 'foundations of probability' were a response to John Maynard Keynes. #hps #histsci #hopos #philsci

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July 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Over the next two issues of #HOPOS, Sander Verhaegh will contribute two papers on "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective". Part 1: "Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy" appears in our Spring 2025 issue.

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July 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Latest #HOPOS: Fenner Tanswell, Brendan Larvor & Colin Rittberg argue that British logician G. T. Kneebone originated the 'dialectical approach to mathematics' in "a pair of forgotten articles in 1955 and 1957 and a chapter of his 1963 book".

Paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...
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June 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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On Looking for—and Finding—Epistemology in the Aufbau. An Homage to Michael Friedman (1947-2025)

By Alan Richardson (UBC)

Time: June 11, 2025 —4:30 to 6:30pm CEST (10.30-12.30 EDT; 7:30-9:30am PDT)
Link: meet.google.com/uaq-jqpf-mwr

Reconstructing Carnap series: www.youtube.com/@reconstruct...
Abstract for the talk. Among the provocations of Thomas Uebel’s talk in this series is his claim that “stretching it just a little bit, Aufbau didn’t do epistemology at all, but only developed a ‘constitution theory’ … This theory could be used for epistemology but wasn’t.” Stretching it just a little bit, one can read Uebel as claiming that one might read the Aufbau with the intent of finding epistemology in it, but one will be frustrated in that search. In “Epistemology in the Aufbau” (1992), Michael Friedman, however, by his own lights, succeeded in finding epistemology in the Aufbau, albeit an epistemology quite unlike the one Quine and the Carnap of the 1950s found in it. In this talk I will offer an account of why Friedman sought what others had already been found, why he found something that those others had not, and why, within his larger account of Carnap, the nature and fate of the Aufbau’s epistemology is central the structure of Carnap’s mature philosophy. I will end by answering on behalf of Friedman and others a challenge presented to Friedman’s history in Frederick Beiser’s new book on Early German Positivism; I will endeavour to show the interplay between the rejection of the Kantian synthetic a priori and tolerance in Carnap’s logic of science as reconstructed by Friedman. This will allow us to grant the sort of positivist rejection of Kantianism that Beiser points to does find expression in Carnap but that Friedman is right that for scientific philosophers such as Carnap, Frank, and Reichenbach only the revolutionary advances of the exact sciences secure the philosophical grounds of anti-dogmatism and the rejection of the universalist account of the synthetic a priori.
June 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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In 2022 Javier Anta published a paper in #HOPOS titled "A Philosopher against the Bandwagon: Carnap and the Informationalization of Thermal Physics."

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#philsky #histsci
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May 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Michael Cuffaro quoting from a letter from Niels Bohr to Paul Dirac. #hps #histsci
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May 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The conference Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics at Western University kicks off with a tribute to William Demopoulos, George Smith, Howard Stein, and Michael Friedman from Robert DiSalle.

#philsky #hopos #hps #philphysics
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May 25, 2025 at 2:35 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/...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM