Quentin Ruyant
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Quentin Ruyant
@qruyant.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy
Researcher in Philosophy of Science
Universidad de Sevilla

Working on representation and models in science, conceptions of scientific theories, the debate on scientific […]

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Gavin has had it up to here... I hear 🤔
October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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#epsa25 is coming!

Why do we put our #trust in scientific experts? How is #science best organized? What do scientific models tell us about the world?

This week (27-30 August), over 400 philosophers from around the world will debate such questions during the four-day #conference of the European […]
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August 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Yesterday's newsletter, in which I dive into what data goes into the training of large language models, and how that should affect how we think about their capabilities

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/its-in-the-training-data

#genai #llms
It's in the training data
Essentials for understanding the new AI models, continued
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August 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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My article "Perspectivism, concrete and abstract" is now published (open access)!

This is a conceptual analysis of perspectivism *in general*, then applied to shed light on quantum perspectivism, perspectival realism, and their differences […]
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July 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My article "Perspectivism, concrete and abstract" is now published (open access)!

This is a conceptual analysis of perspectivism *in general*, then applied to shed light on quantum perspectivism, perspectival realism, and their differences […]
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July 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Part three of my blog series on the semantic conception of scientific theories. Is scientific representation non-linguistic? More pictorial or informal perhaps? Has it to do with idealisations?

https://pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2025/07/reflections-3-is-scientific.html

#philsci #philsky […]
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July 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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I'm summarising some reflections after one year of research on conceptions of scientific theories on my blog. Here's part 2 of 4(?).

Is the semantic view about there being two stages in scientific representation? […]
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July 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I'm summarising some reflections after one year of research on conceptions of scientific theories on my blog. Here's part 2 of 4(?).

Is the semantic view about there being two stages in scientific representation? […]
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July 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Rogatons Rediffusion - 22/05/2023 - "Énigme"
Source: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2023/05/22
July 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
All talks from the workshop "Structures in the sciences" at IIF UNAM (México) are available on YouTube!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9T3Tbxn-lMDH66O5pnbeg8Md8m4h1pRj&si=Nw6BAyhudDK0EKq1

#philsci
July 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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June 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Rogatons Rediffusions - 12/05/2023 - "4 Conseils de dessin qui m'ont été utiles"
Source: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2023/05/12
June 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now […]

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June 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I saw this on TwiX and had to turn it into a meme.
h/t @never_oppressed
June 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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What is truth? On Ramsey, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-truth-on-ramsey-wittgenstein-and-the-vienna-circle
June 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Extracting Ontological Commitments from Experimental Practice" (soon in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale) preprint available here:
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25555/

#philsci

It's a paper on Entity Realism: the view championed by Nancy Cartwright and Ian Hacking that we can be instrumentalist […]
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June 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM