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In the quantum world, the future causes the past: How Bell’s Paradox is solved by Retrocausality #philscience #philsky #physics
In the quantum world, the future causes the past | Emily Adlam
Unravel the perplexing nature of Bell's paradox in Quantum Mechanics, as Emily Adlam presents the intriguing concept of retrocausality, suggesting that the future can influence the past and offering a...
iai.tv
April 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
justincaouette.bsky.social
The Myth of the Designer Baby—Why ‘Genetic Optimization’ Is More Hype Than Science

#philscience #philsky #philosophy #ethics #science #bioethics
No, You Can’t Design Your Baby—And Trying Would Be a Terrible Idea
A genomics firm saying they can help parents with “genetic optimization” of their embryos is tone-deaf Silicon Valley marketing trampling over legitimate science. Parents should be wary
www.scientificamerican.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
vayrynen.bsky.social
Sorry, philosophers of science. #philsky #philscience
Spelling Bee reports 'nomic' is "Not in word list".
December 19, 2024 at 3:33 PM
lauramenatti.bsky.social
Very proud of @leonardobich.bsky.social! It is now clear what the organizational account in #PhilBio entails and the direction it is taking! #philscience #science #biology #organism
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 PM
impactology.bsky.social
Scientists are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination by Michael T. Stuart philarchive.org/archive/STUS...

#philosophyofscience #philscience #metascience
May 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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REMINDER!
Today at 6pm (London time)
📢 Lakatos Award Lecture! ✨by our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award for his book:

📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance

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March 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
frabellazzi.bsky.social
Had a lot of fun presenting this work in progress based on the workshop we did with @simonlohse.bsky.social and @karimbschir.bsky.social 🤓 #philsky #philscience
assemblinglife.bsky.social AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · Mar 17
Another #AssemblingLife talk this week at the CPS Lunch time seminar. This time @frabellazzi.bsky.social was applying comparative philosophy of science to the problem of biochemical structure. 🦋 #philsky
March 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
impactology.bsky.social
Imagination in Scientific Practice by Steven French link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philosophyofscience #philscience #metascience
May 17, 2024 at 4:43 PM
keithwilson.eu
My #philosophy feed now includes all hashtags in #phil* format, so #philscience, #philmind, #philjobs, #philsky, etc. as well as historical and international subfields. Let me know if I’ve missed any and I’ll add them too.
keithwilson.eu Keith Wischmann Wilson @keithwilson.eu · Nov 27
📢 Calling all philosophers! 📢

I have created some new Bluesky feeds, including a broadly-based feed for academic philosophy. This includes the #philsky hashtag plus #philosophy, #epistemology, #metaphysics, #moralphil and other major subfields using the #phil<…> format.

bsky.app/profile/keit...
February 20, 2024 at 9:52 AM
impactology.bsky.social
Sanctioning Models: The Epistemology of Simulation by Eric Winsberg

www.winsberg.net/uploads/7/4/...

#philosophyofscience #philscience #metascience
The Argument In its reconstruction of scientific practice, philosophy of science has traditionally placed scientific theories in a central role, and has reduced the problem of mediating between theories and the world to formal considerations. Many appli- cations of scientific theories, however, involve complex mathematical models whose constitutive equations are analytically unsolvable. The study of these applications often consists in developing representations of the underlying physics on acomputer, and using the techniques of computer simulation in order to learn about the behavior of these systems. In many instances, these computer simula- tions are not simple number-crunching techniques. They involve a complex chain of inferences that serve to transform theoretical structures into specific concrete knowledge of physical systems. In this paper I argue that this process of trans- formation has its own epistemology. Theory + General Physical Modeling Assumptions ↓ Mechanical Model+Parameters, Boundary Values, Initial Data ↓ Dynamical Model+Ad hoc Modeling Assumptions, Approximations, Reduction of Degrees of Freedom ↓ Discretization, Coding ↓ Computational Model+Imaging Techniques, Data Analysis, Interpretation ↓ Model of the Phenomena
May 16, 2024 at 11:34 AM
iwasid.bsky.social
Excellent thread for philosophy of science sources.

#PhilScience
dingdingpeng.the100.ci Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 19
Okay everyone, things are getting serious. I’m going to teach research methods again, 1st year psychology undergraduates. What would you cover with respects to philosophy of science, the research process etc.? I’m not very happy with the textbook stuff so I’m open to all ideas!
August 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
sophisteuein.bsky.social
Welcome, @sarahrobins.bsky.social. Note the dedicated feeds for #philsky and philscience and…
August 12, 2023 at 6:12 PM
impactology.bsky.social
Towards a dual process epistemology of imagination by Michael T. Stuart

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination by Michael T. Stuart

michaeltstuart.com/wp-content/u...

#philosophyofscience #philscience #metascience
philarchive.org
May 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
justincaouette.bsky.social
Suffused with causality

Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect

#philsky #agency #causation #philscience
Causal understanding is not a point of view, it’s a point of do | Aeon Essays
Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect
aeon.co
March 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
bthsmart.bsky.social
Any suggestions for readings on the ethics of vaccinations/vaccine mandates? Thanks guys #philscience #philmedicine #philpublichealth #vaccines
November 24, 2024 at 11:12 AM
dfaria.eu
New at #SEP: Agent-Based Modeling in the Philosophy of Science https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/agent-modeling-philscience/
September 7, 2023 at 6:30 PM
impactology.bsky.social
A Game of Perspectives: On the Role of Imagination in Thought Experiments by Irene Binini, Wolfgang Huemer & Daniele Molinari 

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philosophyofscience #philscience #metascience
A Game of Perspectives: On the Role of Imagination in Thought Experiments - Erkenntnis
Thought experiments are fictional narratives that widen our cognitive horizons both in the sciences and in philosophy. In the present paper we argue that they can perform this function by bringing one...
link.springer.com
May 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
socphilneuro.bsky.social
Submissions are still open for SPAN2025! If you're a neuroscientist or philosopher of neuroscience, be sure to submit an abstract and share the CFP with your friends!
#neuroscience #philosophy #neuro #phil #philscience
socphilneuro.bsky.social SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · Jan 19
We've just added some additional speakers to SPAN2025! Be sure to submit an abstract by February 1st and join us at WashU May 1-3 🥳 philandneuro.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
justincaouette.bsky.social
The world is not a quantum wave function: Why reality is non-local and the wave function isn't real #philsky #philscience #physics #science #philosophy
The world is not a quantum wave function | Valia Allori
In the quantum world, interactions across vast distances can occur, non-local interactions. Some quantum ontologies try to explain non-locality using a high-dimensional wave function. But Professor of...
iai.tv
March 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
dreamwilder.bsky.social
Experimental scientists: When replicating an experiment, do you go in with an attitude of

(1) “Oh wow, I sure hope I can get the same exciting results!” 🤩

Or

(2) “Oh yeah?? We’ll just see about THAT!” 🤨

#ScienceSky #philsky #philscience #question
December 26, 2024 at 7:24 PM
justincaouette.bsky.social
The Risk of Biological Race by @celsoneto.bsky.social

#philsky #philosophy #philscience
The risk of biological race - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Biological race realism (hereafter BRR) is the view that humans form biologically distinct groups. In recent years, Quayshawn Spencer has offered one of the most elaborate versions of that view, but h...
link.springer.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
frabellazzi.bsky.social
Fellow Italian philosophers of science, how do you navigate the clash between #EPSA and #SIFA this summer? Both of them are looking great but also exactly at the same time 😬 #philsky #philscience
May 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
assemblinglife.bsky.social
You will find us at #BSPS, #ISHPSSB and #EPSA - ready to present all the work of the last year 🦋 #philsky #philbio #philscience (2/2)
June 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM