Trump sometimes sounds as if he had read Nietzsche -- ever fifth word in reverse order.

Makes me wonder: if he had developed a banana intolerance and thrown up, would the artwork have re-appeared, albeit in altered form? theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Whenever I read Canguilhem, I want to rush to the library and start doing historical epistemology as conceptual history. (Preparing his "The Living and Its Milieu" for a class next week.)

As Otto Wagner as it gets. --

The route into Hades. --

Louis Roule: "... fish do not lead their lives on their own; it is the river that makes them lead it; they are persons without personality." -- Are we all fish now?

Time has come for me to leave X, and to move over to BLUESKY. I would be thrilled if you came to the same decision. BLUESKY is very easy to use (90% is the same as X), and you'll find that many of your followers and followees already have a second leg over there.

Three cheers for Sonja Riegler who today defends her PhD thesis on a "functionalist account of ignorance"! The examiners are Nadja El Kassar and Rik Peels, and the supervisors were Linda Alcoff and yours truly. #Philosophy

Do you by any chance have a recording of the piano part of Wagner's "Der Engel" in E major (to accompany a baritone voice)? Needless to say, I am happy to pay for it (if I can afford it). #ClassicalMusic

Happy New Year! (With a photo from a foggy and icy Győr yesterday.)

Finished teaching today. Possibly forever, since I officially retire at the end of September, and Summer Term I am on research leave. -- I'll give a "farewell lecture" on May 21st, at 4pm. I'd be delighted to see some of you there.

Three cheers for Franziska Reinhard who today defends her PhD thesis on a "Knowledge-Making in Origins-of-Life Research"! The examiners are Christophe Malaterre and Thomas Reydon, and the supervisors were Martin Kusch and Tarja Knuuttila. #Philosophy

Viktor Orbán posted 'Je suis Marine' a short while ago. "Perfect," I say, "let's ban him from holding public office for the next five years!" #politics #France #Hungary #Orban

"Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900" has just been published with STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. The paper is part of a special issue on "social-scientific exceptionalism", ed. by Anna Alexandrova and myself. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #Philosophy jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-Lec…

Fresh from the press: I argue -- with and against David Bloor and Thomas Uebel -- that Frank and Neurath defended a relativist philosophy and sociology of science. #philosophy #sociology #Vienna link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

On May 21st at 5:30pm (Vienna time), I will give my "Farewell Lecture" on the topic "The Road Ahead". If you are in Vienna, please do come (alcoholic beverage are free of charge!). The talk will be streamed here: vimeo.com/event/5014783 (Going with the times ...)

Forgive the self-promotion, please! -- Just noticed that the recording of our "Dies Facultatis" is online. Elisabeth Nemeth's (kind!) "laudatio" is at 1:43. My valedictory lecture starts at 1:54. #Vienna #philosophy vimeo.com/event/5014783

So sorry that Helen de Cruz has died. I have never met her in person, and don't know her work well. But during Covid, she suggested that we play music together (lute/voice). We only had a few online sessions but they made me appreciate what a brilliant and warm person she is.