After passing the internal defense yesterday, I am very pleased to invite you to the public defense of my PhD dissertation! 📖🍾 Link to sign up below ⬇️(1/3)

The website for our conference on "Virtue Ethics and Technology" is online! Check it out:👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt/2024-conf… #techEthics #AIethics #LAWS #philtech

Apparently, the secret to fair funding decisions is... skipping the proposals altogether. Who knew all that effort was optional? "We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I am very happy and honoured to announce that I have been elected a member of the National Centre for History of Science (CNHS/NCGW)! I look forward to many interesting collaborations to come. Check out their website: astrolabium.be

New book on historical epistemology by Matteo Vagelli Description and Table of Contents here: episthist.hypotheses.org/3930

What insights could we gain through a comparative approach to #philsci? We are thrilled to announce a CfP for a new special issue, with Simon Lohse (Simon Lohse) & Karim Bschir (Karim Bschir) as guest editors! 📢Mark your calendars & send us your ideas! 📅👇dropbox.com/scl/fi/722kfvd…

As I will be joining FASoS Maastricht next week, Bestor is looking for a new collaborator. More info and how to apply👇

Happy 165th birthday to Henri Bergson, the philosopher who was once so famous that people climbed up the side of his lecture theatre at the Collège de France to listen in. Here's photographic evidence from 1914

Gaston Bachelard : L'engagement rationaliste (Nouvelle édition établie et commentée par Vincent Bontems) les-livres-de-philosophie.blogspot.com/2024/10/gaston…

Landelijk onderwijsprotest Utrecht gaat niet door, gemeente vreest geweld pro-Palestijnse demonstranten ift.tt/MqHkCoR

Utrecht canceled tomorrow’s protest against austerity in Dutch higher education 😢 Thousands of people were planning to come, but now the government has an excuse not to listen to the opposition from students, professors, and business against the cuts. aob.nl/actueel/artike…

SAVE THE DATE: 25 november in Den Haag nieuwe protesten tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs #woinactie

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A new photo of the Sombrero galaxy from NASA Webb Telescope reveals finer details of the hat-like formation. It has a smooth inner disk, while its “brim” – the outer ring – is made of intricate lumps. go.nasa.gov/3CLH5Fl

Coalitie zwicht, toch onderhandelingen met oppositie over aanpassing begroting onderwijs | de Volkskrant volkskrant.nl/politiek/coali…

Aanstaande woensdag 11 december zullen er vanaf 13.00 uur nieuwe acties tegen de desastreuze bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs plaatsvinden in Nijmegen, Enschede, Tilburg, Leiden, Maastricht, Utrecht, Groningen, Amsterdam, en Rotterdam.

We are starting our new reading group on Raymond #Ruyer's "Cybernetics and the Origin of Information". All are welcome to join! For more info feel free to reach out to us and keep an eye on our website: hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt/RG

Sophie Roux, Lucie Fabry (dir.) : Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes. Controverses épistémologiques des années 1960 les-livres-de-philosophie.blogspot.com/2025/02/sophie…

Philosopher Michael Friedman, whose work on philosophy of science, Kant, and the history of 20th Century philosophy has been very influential, has died. dailynous.com/2025/03/26/mic…