What role does aesthetics play in science? With @alicemurphs we started out with aesthetics as a motivation for science, talked about possible epistemic roles aesthetics could fill in science and ended with surprising elements of scientific practice: philosophyexchange.org/podcast/

One of our founding members, @lore_sarto (PhD-student LSE Philosophy) just published his first paper. 🥳 Congratulations! It is on external validity in thought experiments. Check it out! Link to preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21547/1/Puttin…

Philosophy Exchange's Karl Reimer discusses the concept 'horizoning' - explored by Adriana Petryna in her new book "Horizon Work: At the Edge of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change" - in his book review LSE Review of Books blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

My website is online! elisabethwidmer.com

New year = new podcast episode on philosophy of psychiatry!! Bennett Knox, Josarisoy and Dr Jodie Russell interview @ninasdeboer about her work on network models of psychological disorders and their pros and cons with regard to traditional models. philosophyexchange.org/podcast/

Worth listening to hear me try and ask @ninasdeboer mean questions which she replies to with absolute ease and grace (also Nina’s work is just the best)

Call for papers for a JEM Special Issue: Diversity in Philosophy of Economics and Economic Methodology neaydinonat.com/2023/01/12/cfp…

❗️ Workshop Announcement ❗️ Adrian Currie and I are putting together a workshop on #methods in #philsci with an incredible set of speakers 🤩🤩 22-23 May, University of Vienna Everyone welcome 💕🎀⭐️

The way we conceptualize mental disorders shapes the way people perceive themselves and their disorders. In an interview with Bennett Knox, Josarisoy, and @ninasdeboer Edinburgh's Dr Jodie Russell tells us the pros and cons of so-called mind-shaping. philosophyexchange.org/podcast/

I talk a little bit here about a paper I’ve been working on for some time heavily inspired by Hacking’s looping effects of human kinds. Listen in for my one/two hot takes! 🔥

My paper discussing some worries I have with implementing enactive psychiatry is now out in Philosophical Psychology. I apply here some insights from feminist philosophy of science and social epistemology to critique enactive accounts of mental disorder: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My paper "When the Beauty of Images Exemplifies: Considerations About Scientific Images and Understanding” has won the Teorema Essay Prize for Young Scholars 2022! This paper wouldn't have been possible without the extremely valuable feedback from my beloved Logical Analysis 🫀

Some #philosophy organizations to follow growing on twitter. Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte Hegel en perspectiva Filosofía ULL Crisis and Critique Five Books Philosophy Red Mexicana de Mujeres Filósofas FiloLab | UGR BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Philosophy Exchange Blue Labyrinths Philosophy, AI and Society Network Caribbean Philosophical Association Philosophical Psychology Philosophy Break

I'm making a reading list for my transition from post doc to assistant prof. Is there anything you've read that really helped you think about teaching, research, and/or mentoring at the faculty level? Top 2 on my list are currently bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress and...

Lovely sentiment from Korsgaard, from towards the end of her Dewey lecture (cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.harvard.…). One of my ambitions in philosophy is to develop something like an interesting personal style of writing, as arrogant or pretentious a goal as that may be. I would value it.

I love it when philosophers mistake inference to their favorite explanation for inference to the best explanation

An article co-authored by one of our members, Mason Majszak, has recently been published. You can find the full paper, open access, here!