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MRmarkrubin.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 10:29am

Too Much Reality in Psychology? “Physicists have benefitted greatly from creating idealized theories that necessarily dis-include relevant factors and depart substantially from seeming empirical reality, whereas psychologists do not idealize.” #PhilSci #Psychology doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

ABalisabokulich.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 7:25pm

Carlo Rovelli giving us a talk about the asymmetry of direction of time . . . (from the future?! 😂) #philsci ⚛️

Carlo in front of a slide (listing the date as 2025!)
The two ways in which causation is rooted into thermodynamics
Power and risks of pragmatists's insights, in the eyes of a physicist
Carlo Rovelli
Rotmann, September 2025

(Discussion with Huw Price, Jenann Ismael,
and Rascal Fongue Wayne Myrvold
CR: How Oriented Causation Is Rooted into Thermodynamics. Philosophy

ARalanrichardson.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 7:25pm

Got to run with this framing: Topics in philosophy of science: Value-free objectivity and its evil, foolish, and stupid alternatives.

KMkevinmkruse.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 6:34pm

You can always tell the true bastions of education because they label the topics they’re studying as “evil” and “foolish” so you know you’re supposed to hate them right off the bat.

AAastrobiologiste.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 5:12pm

The latter, i guess. I may have a simplistic view of science too and I would like to change that. I took one philosophy of science course and... It didn't go well.

RPrhacodactylus.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 4:54pm

which "this"? the scientists i know who have a very narrow and simplistic view of what constitutes science or the philosophy of science?

TMtmarvan.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 4:01pm

The 2025 edition of "PSA Around the World" will spotlight the work of the philosophers of science in Central-Eastern Europe. Stay tuned for the first call for abstracts!

POphilsci.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 10:33pm

Newsletter is out: more info about the Biennial Meeting in New Orleans and various updates by the President including upcoming Public Forum, President’s Plenary Symposium, @psa-upss.bsky.social session, new members of PSA IR Committee and PSA Around the World 2025 mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...

Uufofeed.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 3:38pm

Black Holes, Cosmic Cycles, and the Mind of Sir Roger Penrose https://www.ufofeed.com/101696/black-holes-cosmic-cycles-and-the-mind-of-sir-roger-penrose/ Sir Roger Penrose is a British mathematician, physicist, and philosopher of science known for his work in mathematical physics and general …

Black Holes, Cosmic Cycles, and the Mind of Sir Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose is a British mathematician, physicist, and philosopher of science known for his work in mathematical physics and general relativity. He made significant contributions to the understanding of black holes, particularly with his discovery of singularities, alongside Stephen Hawking. Penrose also formulated the Penrose tiling, a non-repeating pattern with profound implications in the study of crystallography. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 for his work on black holes. Penrose is also noted for his revolutionary theories on consciousness and quantum mechanics.by Pixelated_

ABalisabokulich.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 3:29pm

A wonderful talk this morning at the Pragmatism & Philosophy of Science conference by @huwprice.bsky.social #philsci #philsky

Huw standing in front of screen with text "De-rhinofying Quantum Entanglement
1. Entanglement and nonlocality
2. Colliders, collider bias, and constrained colliders
3. Constrained colliders in QM - special cases
4. Constrained colliders in QM - ordinary cases (I)
5. The view from behind the snout
6. Constrained colliders in QM - ordinary cases (Il)

Slide with toy example & cartoon of pre-Copernican rhino, who paints their horn into the painting, not recognizing its situated origin. Text of slide says "A toy model
1. Imagine triangular poker chips, with three spots, A, B and C, subject to the rule that the three spots can't all be the same - at least one spot must be shaded, and at least one unshaded.
2. Imagine you're selecting these chips at random from a huge urn (or URn, as we physicists say!)
3. Suppose C is specified to be fixed.
4. Then a change to B requires a change to A, in the configuration shown.
0. 107

GPgregpriest.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 2:03pm

OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.” The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow. 🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio

Cartoon of Darwin holding a copy of the Original, looking into a mirror and seeing as his reflection Malthus holding a copy off his Essay on the Principle of Population. By Tom Dunne for American Scientist.

POphilsci.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 1:52pm

Many congrats to these excellent scholars and many thanks to the @psa-upss.bsky.social@alisabokulich.bsky.social #PSA2024 in New Orleans. We look forward to hearing your talks! 🎉🎉🎉

PUpsa-upss.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 1:24am

Congrats to PSA UPSS Session winners: Ian Peebles (ASU) Vanessa Schipani (UPENN) @lidasara.bsky.social (UT - San Antonio), & Banin Diar Sukmono (UC Irvine)! 🎉 Join us for UPSS session taking place on Saturday, November 16th from 1:15-3:15 p.m. in Studio 1 at PSA in NOLA philsci.org/upss_biennia...