Oscar

oscarw.bsky.social

05 July 2026 15:02

New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1... In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky

Catherine Herfeld

cherfeld.bsky.social

08 May 2026 03:10

Kicking off the project Modeling in Philosophy at the Uni of Stockholm w @joeroussos.bsky.social, James Nguyen @dellsen.bsky.social & Dunja Šešelja. Stay tuned for research on e.g. #modeltransfer from econ into phil and other exciting topics abt models & progress in phil @modeltransfer.bsky.social

lastpositivist.bsky.social

30 March 2026 06:17

A little known fact is that every time you spell "America" with a "k" you make it 0.0001% more likely that there is a full communist decolonisation of Turtle Island (in a way that is, somehow, also good for Black people with a capital B) and if you do it with three "k"s you decolonise Australia too.

Edouard Machery

edouardmachery.bsky.social

28 March 2026 12:51

two postdocs in philsci #philsci

Sebastian Watzl

sebastianwatzl.bsky.social

20 November 2025 22:07

There is no man made climate change. There is rich made climate change. „The richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year“ Now reflect on why we are not thinking more about how the rich are destroying the world policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...