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On April 8th, Mike Stuart will be speaking at the HKUST Philosophy of Science Lecture Series. He will argue that "pragmatic understanding" is the most fundamental kind of understanding, and it should be characterized in terms of abilities. Zoom details in the image!

The next article in our Philosophy and the Mind Sciences special issue is out! The justificatory power of memory experience Lu Teng philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phim… Ying-Tung Lin Michael T Stuart

Here's a summary of all the things I've discovered about scientific imagination by using qualitative methods!

On April 12th, Mike Stuart is giving a talk to the European Space Agency's Advanced Concept Team. The talk will be on imagination, creativity, and AI for space science. Learn more here! esa.int/gsp/ACT/coffee…

So great to be back in Bristol!

This panel is part of a really cool new initiative for the Centre of Applied Social Research. Looking forward to it!

On Thursday, Mike Stuart will be giving a talk at the University of Stockholm entitled "Scientific Understanding as Ability." He'll argue that understanding is just having an ability (and being responsible for having that ability).

Cool new paper that replicates and expands on the work by Markus Kneer and me! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… Roughly, we're seeing more empirical evidence that if you attribute mental properties to AI, you are also more likely to attribute responsibility to them.

UPSS scholars in Mentoring Program who are current grad students or w/in 3 years PhD are eligible to submit an abstract for UPSS Session at upcoming Philosophy of Science Association Meeting. UPSS scholars work with their mentors to refine project. Deadline submit August 1st mms.philsci.org/ct.php?lid=279…

In a few hours, Mike Stuart will be giving a talk to the European Intergovernmental Research Organisation forum on scientific imagination and creativity. See here for more: eiroforum.org EIROforum Michael T Stuart

Mike Stuart will be in conversation with Rashaad Newsome at the Sainsbury Art Centre this Wednesday on the topic of imagination and AI in art. More info here! sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/artis…

Can AI imagine? Mike Stuart argues that because imagination is an essentially contested concept, we are never going to agree on an answer to the question... but nonetheless, there might be good reasons to keep asking it.

Can artistic exercises empower scientists into creative forms of science communication? Super-pumped about ours with Helene Scott workshop and discussion with scientists today at Cambridge University Clare Hall! Cambridge HPS

Delighted to be part of this special issue on qualitative methods used to study science (alongside superstars Nancy Nersessian, Sabina Leonelli, Rachel Ankeny, Lisa Osbeck, and others), commemorating Ian Mitroff's work on the moon landing. t.ly/1twvt

This is some of the most fun I've ever had writing a paper, with Anatolii Kozlov. So happy to have it come out open-access with EJPS. Epistemology-via-aesthetics and vice-versa ftw!

So! – Are scientific reports stories, arguments, or –? We unpack their epistemology via recent works on narratives. We then put on a perspectivists' hat (e.g. of great Michela Massimi) to show that they are just like... modernist stories Michael T Stuart link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Not all inquiries are like whodunnits, uncovering the pre-existing facts that provide the answers to our questions. Sometimes, we need to create or revise the frameworks that delineate the very object of our inquiry. That is a creative act, from beginning to end!

In this paper I try my best to cover all the exciting xphi work that has been done on imagination and creativity, and give a wish-list of things that might be done next! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23798/

Can some scientists "imagine better" than others? What would that even mean? Hannah Sargeant and I argue that imagination is all about breaking constraints, and imagining well is about being careful about which constraints you break, and how. t.ly/Aticr

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