What makes a particular scientific experiment 'pursuitworthy'? Enno Fischer and I are very excited to edit a topical collection on this issue for The EJPS. Get in touch with us if you are interested & please help us spread the word! Full CfP 📢👇tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iphil… #philsci

Season 4 of the pod launching this Thursday!!! "It is vital to showcase the humanities, which consider complex topics in highly sophisticated ways." #histsci #philsci 🧪 sagacitymagazine.com.au/expanding-the-…

We are delighted to announce the arrival of BJPS Letters to the Editors. Something in the BJPS is wrong, you say? Highly implausible. But on the off-chance, write to us…More details here: thebsps.org/auxhyp/letters… #philsci #speakyourbrains

S4 Ep 1 out now! With some great discussion on exploratory research, the importance of the humanities approach, ethnography, and a sneak peak at what is coming... Also, make sure to listen to the end for some fun outtakes! #hps #histSTM #philsci #STS 🧪 thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Pitt has two positions this year, both open rank: philosophy of science and history and philosophy of biology! links in the replies. Please share widely.

It's here! In this episode we talk with the amazing Simon Schaffer about the classic HPS Book 'Leviathan and the Air-Pump' The interview was so good, it will play over 2 episodes. Part 1 out today, part 2 next week #hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪 thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

A thought provoking piece! What do others think? Is it better to be "usefully wrong than uselessly right"? "theories that are sharp can quicken thought.  They cut through vagueness and wishful thinking [and] spark more interesting debates about their limits and exceptions."

Part 2 of Simon Schaffer's interview out now! "What are the claims of science, technology & medicine? What are their implications? How have they emerged? Those are fundamental questions. We need HPS to make sense of them." #histSTM #philsci #sts thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

Why intellectual humility isn’t always a virtue aeon.co/essays/why-int…

“We often find ourselves judging the merit of rules, or laws, or claims, regardless of whether we’re an expert and regardless of whether we are or are not going to comply with it" S4 Ep 4: Darrin Durant talks to Carmelina Contarino about Expertise #HPS #STS 🧪 buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

All information about history and philosophy of physics in the Netherlands (scholars, research, courses, events, etc.) can now be found in one convenient location: hpp-nl.nl

"The insight behind experimental philosophy is a need to broaden the tools we use to answer philosophical questions" Today on The HPS Pod, the fabulous Edouard Machery from Center for PhilSci discussing exciting developments in the x-phi movement hpsunimelb.org/the-hps-podcas…

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #sts #hps) accounts over on the good place go.bsky.app/N9DYvxP

"Science isn't finished until it's communicated" This week acclaimed #scicomm leader A/Prof Jen Martin @scidocmartin.bsky.social from LetsTalkSciComm @letstalkscicomm.bsky.social shows us that communicating science in inclusive ways is not an ‘optional extra’ but a fundamental part of the research process thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

Guess who our next guest will be...??!! Recently Samara Greenwood sat down for a wonderful conversation with the always amazing NaomiOreskes on her work in public-facing history of science. A very exciting podcast episode dropping this Thursday! #hps #histsci #philsci #sts

"I was getting hate mail, I was getting attacked.  I thought, these people have a script" Today's special guest is acclaimed science historian NaomiOreskes discussing her work on the social construction of ignorance. Not to be missed! thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

“You can have great understandings of how people are supposed to make knowledge that do not work in practice" S4 Ep8 Nicole C Nelson, PhD talks to Carmelina Contarino about Ethnographies of Science #HPS #STS 🧪 buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

"We need to get [scientists] to realise that history and philosophy of science has much to contribute to science itself" Listen now to Editor-in-Chief of Science Holden Thorp, dormant account talks to with Carmelina Contarino and Samara Greenwood #hps #philsci #histsci #sts🧪 buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…

Final Ep of Season 4 out now! Featuring not 1, not 2, but 5(!) fab guests discussing 'Philosophy of Science in Practice: The Conference' Julia Bursten Aja Watkins Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam Caleb Hazelwood Joseph Rouse Joshua Eisenthal Samara Greenwood thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/episod…