Nika Shilobod · @NikaShilobod
3034 followers · 6164 posts · Server fediscience.orgNormal existential crisis question: How does science fix anything if were forced to move around for and paper mill instead of getting involved with and fixing our place in a community and actually analysing and publishing on the problems? This is slow and does not always have immediate tangible outputs. We shouldn't need things like scihub and science shouldn't be inaccessible. No wonder we have trouble on the communication end, we are separate from the community. #philosophyofscience
Ele Willoughby, PhD · @minouette
843 followers · 995 posts · Server spore.social
For the #SciArtSeptember theme “lyrical” I’m going with the use of imagination & analogy in the exploration & communication of science through thought-experiments like Lyell’s Amphibious Being! In geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875)’s famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ he wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #histstm #SciArtSeptember #amphibian #PhilosophyOfScience #EarthScience #geologist #MastoArt
#sciartseptember #geology #linocut #printmaking #histstm #amphibian #philosophyofscience #earthscience #geologist #mastoart
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 · @bibliolater
464 followers · 1778 posts · Server qoto.org"A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium."
Beretta, M. (Ed.). (2022). A Cultural History Of Chemistry: In Antiquity. London,: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved September 10, 2023, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474203746 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #History #HistSci #Culture #Chemistry #STEM #Technology #Medicine #PhilosophyofScience #Antiquity #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics
@science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (58)
#science #technology #books #ebook #ebooks #openaccess #history #medicine #antiquity #book #academic #oa #histsci #culture #chemistry #stem #philosophyofscience #bookstodon #academia #academics
Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1566 followers · 4725 posts · Server mastodon.scot#NedBlock - Can #Consciousness be #NonBiological?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6J7n8utnNw&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Qualia #SelfAwareness #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology #Dualism #Physicalism #Materialism #ExplanatoryGap #Behaviorism #Behaviourism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#RobertKuhn #CloserToTruth #behaviourism #behaviorism #explanatorygap #materialism #physicalism #dualism #neurophysiology #neuroscience #selfawareness #qualia #mind #philosophyofmind #science #philosophyofscience #philosophy #nonbiological #consciousness #nedblock
Akshay · @Akshay
99 followers · 809 posts · Server eupolicy.socialWhat Polanyi explicates as a balanced set of academic incentives, is also relevant for our own, personal judgment.
People too good at critiquing society but not themselves will turn into crackpots.
People unsure of themselves but too trusting of a group or leader might become conformists or even authoritarian followers.
Scientific/epistemological virtue requires finding the "golden mean" between these extremes.
#Science #philosophy #philosophyofscience
Akshay · @Akshay
99 followers · 809 posts · Server eupolicy.socialClassic, still relevant, essay by Michael Polanyi on Science:
"The criteria of plausibility and of scientific value tend to enforce conformity, while the value attached to originality encourages dissent.
This internal tension is essential in guiding and motivating scientific work.
The professional standards of science must impose a framework of discipline and at the same time encourage rebellion against it. "
#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience
https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5100/polanyi_1967.pdf
#Science #philosophy #philosophyofscience
Jes Parent · @jesparent
29 followers · 46 posts · Server fediscience.org
Yes, I have started making #cognitivescience #philosophy memes, including this one for #phenomenology, after much encouragement from others.
#chemero #philosophyofscience #psychology #memes #philosophyofmind #neuroscience
#neuroscience #philosophyofmind #memes #psychology #philosophyofscience #chemero #phenomenology #philosophy #cognitivescience
Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1563 followers · 4708 posts · Server mastodon.scot#WillemDrees - Is the #World Self-Organizing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6y18SmMuc&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Emergence #Entropy #Order #Organisation #Reductionism #Religion #Chance #Probability #Teleology #Psychology #Prayer #Morality #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#RobertKuhn #CloserToTruth #morality #prayer #psychology #teleology #probability #chance #religion #reductionism #organisation #order #entropy #emergence #physics #science #philosophyofscience #philosophy #world #willemdrees
Kino Zhao · @kinozhao
701 followers · 594 posts · Server fediphilosophy.org**Advertisement for an initiative in the PSA DEI community** (Probably irrelevant to most of you.) (Please be mindful that this is targeting PSA community members only; boosts welcome.)
The Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)'s DEI Caucus recently voted to move to an affinity group model, where folks are encouraged to form smaller groups on various topics and receive support from the Caucus leadership. (That would be me, as one of the two current Caucus co-chairs.)
There have been a lot of uncertainties around the idea of affinity groups. Are they like support groups? Do they have to be identity based (women's group; LGBT group, etc)? Do they have to do stuff for other people? etc. My co-chair and I left it intentionally unclear so as to encourage grassroot creativity.
My friend @chrismitsch decided to start a philosophy of physics group. He wrote a proposal here: https://asymptoticphilosophy.com/announcing-the-psa-dei-caucus-affinity-group-for-philosophy-of-physics/
I think it's a great idea! It's exactly the kind of creativity I was hoping for! So, here's an advertisement for anyone interested. Feedback & questions welcome.
Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1563 followers · 4708 posts · Server mastodon.scot
#JuanMaldacena - Does #Information Create the #Cosmos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dprKOGA57_I&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #QM #QuantumMechanics #Physics #QuantumPhysics #Superposition #WaveFunction #Entanglement #Universe #Gravity #QuantumGravity #Relativity #GR #GeneralRelativity #Holography #HolographicPrinciple #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#RobertKuhn #CloserToTruth #HolographicPrinciple #holography #generalrelativity #gr #relativity #quantumgravity #gravity #universe #entanglement #wavefunction #superposition #quantumphysics #physics #quantummechanics #qm #cosmology #PhilosophyOfCosmology #science #philosophyofscience #philosophy #cosmos #information #juanmaldacena
Jes Parent · @jesparent
30 followers · 44 posts · Server fediscience.orgA nice video series on philosophy of science with a bent towards #humanities
#philosophy #philosophyofscience #khun #humanities
Jes Parent · @jesparent
30 followers · 43 posts · Server fediscience.org#Saturday #book #treasurehunting continues. Big scores at @harvardbooks once again. Someone dropped off a lot of good #philosophyofscience texts. #karlpopper in particular looks great for some of my projects.
#bookworm #usedbooks #usedbookstore #independentbookstore #localbookstore #nowreading #philosophy #historyofscience #ai #history #booklover #nowreading #reading #cognitivescience #psychology #august #cambridge #boston #bostonbooks #cambridgebooks #harvardsquare #harvard
#Harvard #harvardsquare #cambridgebooks #bostonbooks #boston #cambridge #august #psychology #cognitivescience #reading #booklover #history #ai #historyofscience #philosophy #nowreading #localbookstore #independentbookstore #usedbookstore #usedbooks #bookworm #KarlPopper #philosophyofscience #treasurehunting #book #saturday
Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1560 followers · 4702 posts · Server mastodon.scot#RaphaelBousso - #Physics of the #Observer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIEoPZijgAU&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #WaveFunction #Decoherence #Collapse #WaveFunctionCollapse #Causality #Prediction #Probability #Determinism #Event #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#RobertKuhn #CloserToTruth #event #determinism #probability #prediction #causality #wavefunctioncollapse #collapse #Decoherence #wavefunction #quantumphysics #quantummechanics #qm #philosophyofscience #philosophy #observer #physics #raphaelbousso
Mark Rubin · @MarkRubin
1841 followers · 1707 posts · Server fediscience.orgNew article from me:
“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”
Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/popper-lakatos-and-the-replication-crisis
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/2dz9s
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
@philosophyofscience
#philsci #philosophyofscience #sts #ScienceOfScience #sociologyofscience #replicationcrisis #metaresearch #metascience
Utrecht Hist & Phil of Science · @UtrechtHPS
22 followers · 9 posts · Server akademienl.socialWe're thrilled that our local philosopher of astronomy, Dr Niels Martens
@EU_phil_cosmo , is now affiliate faculty at Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, working on the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
https://bhi.fas.harvard.edu/people/?people_group=affiliates
#astronomy #philosophy #philosophyofphysics #philosophyofscience
#astronomy #philosophy #philosophyofphysics #philosophyofscience
Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1560 followers · 4691 posts · Server mastodon.scot#BrianKeating - How Did Our #Universe Begin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYlLhlXaA4&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Inflation #StandardModel #Guth #AlanGuth #MagneticMonopoles #Monopoles #FlatnessProblem #Topology #Gravity #GeneralRelativity #Multiverse #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#RobertKuhn #CloserToTruth #multiverse #generalrelativity #gravity #topology #flatnessproblem #monopoles #magneticmonopoles #alanguth #guth #standardmodel #inflation #cosmology #PhilosophyOfCosmology #science #philosophyofscience #philosophy #universe #briankeating
Bill · @wjbeaver
18 followers · 76 posts · Server qoto.org#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal #biology #evolution #economy #incomedistribution #anthropology #culturalevolution #archeology#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal #biology #evolution #economy #incomedistribution #anthropology #culturalevolution #archeology #networkscience #complexnetworks
I am presently reading “Spatial Networks” by Marc Barthelemy. I am interested in how spatial networks differ from non-spatial ones. For a road network, measures like degree don’t work because an intersection is constrained by the number of roads that it can intersect. This is peculiar to roads but I am wondering what constraints a distance metric in general can impose on a network. Would a network including statistical or information distance be considered a spatial network? I realize that linear distance along a road is not a true distance as it doesn’t always fit the triangle inequality. I am wondering if a ratio of Euclidean distance to linear distance would somehow fix things. Does anyone care to comment?
#originoflife #informationtheory #complexsystems #biogels #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #collectivebehavior #evolutionarydynamics #qotojournal #biology #evolution #economy #incomedistribution #anthropology #culturalevolution #archeology #networkscience #complexnetworks
Jes Parent · @jesparent
28 followers · 27 posts · Server fediscience.org#Foucault and .... neurodiversity, medical, institutions, history, and more
The "Medical Gaze" fits quite a lot with reductionism broadly, and many lingering issues in fragmented views of human experience, of being a person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZtGU&ab_channel=TheSchoolofLife #philosophy #history #historyofscience #philosophyofscience
#philosophyofscience #historyofscience #history #philosophy #foucault
Jes Parent · @jesparent
28 followers · 17 posts · Server fediscience.org
Tonight: @OREL "Human Use of Human Beings" reading group led by Amanda continues w Chapter 6-7.
#norbertwiener #philosophy #techethics #aiethics #technology #historyofscience #philosophyofscience #humanities #digitalhumanities #cybernetics #history #ethics
#ethics #history #cybernetics #digitalhumanities #humanities #philosophyofscience #historyofscience #technology #aiethics #techethics #philosophy #norbertwiener
Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1560 followers · 4688 posts · Server mastodon.scot
#ColinMcGinn - How Can #FreeWill Work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZIdsrOg37Q&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #PhilosophyOfMind #Randomness #Determinism #Compatibilism #Blame #Responsibility #Morality #MentalCausation #Causation #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#RobertKuhn #CloserToTruth #causation #mentalcausation #morality #responsibility #blame #Compatibilism #determinism #randomness #philosophyofmind #philosophyoffreewill #philosophyofscience #philosophy #freewill #colinmcginn