Matthew Perkins-McVey
@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social
Assistant Professor • History and Philosophy of Science, Intoxication, Medicine, Psych and Pharma, specializing in 19th/early-20th century Germany • Book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" forthcoming at U. Chicago Press
Excited to say it will be hitting the warehouse soon! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci
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Intoxicated Ways of Knowing
Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century. Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner ...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Excited to say it will be hitting the warehouse soon! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci
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Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust
“The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro
“The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro
Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | Nicole Rust
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August 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust
“The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro
“The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro
The real time we never get back? Figuring out the first names of the authors behind obscure, 19th-century one-off papers, especially when the happen to share the same last name and first initial with someone WAY more famous.
July 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The real time we never get back? Figuring out the first names of the authors behind obscure, 19th-century one-off papers, especially when the happen to share the same last name and first initial with someone WAY more famous.
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Georges Canguilhem, the French philosopher, was born on this day in 1904. Although he is best known for his work in the philosophy of biology and medicine, Canguilhem was also a profound thinker about technology.
June 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Georges Canguilhem, the French philosopher, was born on this day in 1904. Although he is best known for his work in the philosophy of biology and medicine, Canguilhem was also a profound thinker about technology.
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A clever talk by Daston on the history of the history of science. youtu.be/SDzVaBj492s
What isn't the History of Knowledge
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April 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
A clever talk by Daston on the history of the history of science. youtu.be/SDzVaBj492s
My book has a cover and is now available for pre-order!
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Intoxicated Ways of Knowing
Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century. Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner ...
press.uchicago.edu
April 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My book has a cover and is now available for pre-order!
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🔔 Call for Papers! The 10th Workshop on Historical Epistemology will focus on exploring the Intersections of Psychological Research & Psychotherapeutic Practices.
📅 27-29 March 2025
📍 IMGWF, University of Lübeck
🌐 Details here: episthist.hypotheses.org/4152
#philsky #philsci #histsci #histtech
📅 27-29 March 2025
📍 IMGWF, University of Lübeck
🌐 Details here: episthist.hypotheses.org/4152
#philsky #philsci #histsci #histtech
CFP 10th Workshop on Historical Epistemology
Call for Papers10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology:Intersections of Psychological Research and Psychotherapeutic Practices 27-29 March 2025 IMGWF, Universität zu Lübeck Organized by...
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October 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM
🔔 Call for Papers! The 10th Workshop on Historical Epistemology will focus on exploring the Intersections of Psychological Research & Psychotherapeutic Practices.
📅 27-29 March 2025
📍 IMGWF, University of Lübeck
🌐 Details here: episthist.hypotheses.org/4152
#philsky #philsci #histsci #histtech
📅 27-29 March 2025
📍 IMGWF, University of Lübeck
🌐 Details here: episthist.hypotheses.org/4152
#philsky #philsci #histsci #histtech
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“[T]he very phenomenon being investigated may be changed by the inquiry itself. It is as if there were a principle of human indeterminacy at work.”
“Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.”
#PhilSci #HistSTM 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧪🗃️🧠
“Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.”
#PhilSci #HistSTM 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧪🗃️🧠
February 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Nietzsche knew that a true philosopher must write his own jacket blurbs.
February 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Nietzsche knew that a true philosopher must write his own jacket blurbs.
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I was just made aware of this review of my book by
@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social on HPLS. I wish to thank its Author for engaging with my work!
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@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social on HPLS. I wish to thank its Author for engaging with my work!
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Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering historical epistemology: French and anglophone styles in history and philosophy of science, 2024. Springer - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences -
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January 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I was just made aware of this review of my book by
@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social on HPLS. I wish to thank its Author for engaging with my work!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social on HPLS. I wish to thank its Author for engaging with my work!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Paul Feyerabend was born OTD in 1924.
Knowledge is not a body of consistent theories converging on truth. It is “an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible … alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth … forcing the others into greater articulation.”
🧪🦋🦫 #PhilSci #STS
Knowledge is not a body of consistent theories converging on truth. It is “an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible … alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth … forcing the others into greater articulation.”
🧪🦋🦫 #PhilSci #STS
January 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Though surely familiar to most of you, this "experimental apparatus" was developed by Alfred Beaumont Maddock’s in 1845 to establish the efficacy of inhaling the fumes of substances such as opium, digitalis, hemlock, and many more.
December 10, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Though surely familiar to most of you, this "experimental apparatus" was developed by Alfred Beaumont Maddock’s in 1845 to establish the efficacy of inhaling the fumes of substances such as opium, digitalis, hemlock, and many more.
So, how many of you trust the publishers to put together a good book cover? And how many of you propose your own covers?
December 9, 2024 at 1:12 PM
So, how many of you trust the publishers to put together a good book cover? And how many of you propose your own covers?
Are the Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) measurements used in addiction research broken? Have they always been? Read about it here at Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
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Memento Mori: The Problem With Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) in Addiction Research and Policy: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 85, No 5
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December 9, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Are the Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) measurements used in addiction research broken? Have they always been? Read about it here at Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
www.jsad.com/doi/full/10....
www.jsad.com/doi/full/10....
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have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
That takes the reason prisoner?
December 3, 2024 at 1:58 AM
have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
That takes the reason prisoner?
Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis! Might intoxication represent an orienting concept in the history of madness more generally, making 'model psychosis' a founding model in mental pathology? #philmed #hismed #hispsy #hissci
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November 26, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis! Might intoxication represent an orienting concept in the history of madness more generally, making 'model psychosis' a founding model in mental pathology? #philmed #hismed #hispsy #hissci
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My book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" is in production at @uchicagopress.bsky.social !
November 24, 2024 at 8:48 AM
My book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" is in production at @uchicagopress.bsky.social !