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Too Much Reality in Psychology? โ€œPhysicists 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.โ€ #PhilSci#Psychologydoi.org/10.1037/amp0...

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ABalisabokulich.bsky.social

Carlo Rovelli giving us a talk about the asymmetry of direction of time . . . (from the future?! ๐Ÿ˜‚) #philsci โš›๏ธ

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
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ABalisabokulich.bsky.social

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
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GPgregpriest.bsky.social

OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthusโ€™s Principles of Population โ€œfor amusement.โ€ The idea of a โ€œwar of natureโ€ was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow. ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿงช#HistSTM #philsci ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿ“‰#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.
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ABalisabokulich.bsky.social

Next up Ari Duwell presenting work with @soaziglebihan.bsky.social#philsci

A man presenting in front of a slide with words Problems and Possibilities: A Pragmatic View of Scientific Understanding Armond Duwell and Soazig Le Bihan University of Montana September 27, 2024
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ABalisabokulich.bsky.social

A really fantastic talk by @hkandersen.bsky.social#PhilSci conference!

Outline 1) Background: Potted history of problems around modality for pragmatists and philosophers of science 2) A pragmatist account of modality that illustrates an issue with "what is the function of X" approach: Thomasson 3) Pragmatist metaphysics of modality: key considerations, how approach differs from post-Lewisian metaphysics 4) Lebesgue Necessity: a newly individuated gradation of necess 5) Is there such a thing? Applying the pragmatist method: measu 6) Measurement unable, in principle, to require one metaphysica commitment over another 7) Resolution: the outline of a pragmatist approach to modality
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ABalisabokulich.bsky.social

Philosopher of biology Ken Waters kicking off Pragmatism & Philosophy of Science conference (& some nice conference swag!) #philsci#hpbio

Ken at podium speaking in front of slide "Abductive Argument for The No General Structure Thesis"
Some Rotman Institute of Philosophy swag: bag, notebook, folder & pen
Half of room audience at conference with glass wall in background.
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ESeeschenberg.bsky.social

"we should have a panoply of methods in our tool bag, not just one golden hammer." Nancy Cartwright, 2021, Absolutely gold ๐Ÿฅ‡๐Ÿคฃ #Academicsky#AffectSci#BehSciSky#ClinPsych#ClinicalPsychologist#clinicalpsychsky#HistSci#mentalhealth#PsychSciSky#psychology#psychiatry#neuroskyence#PhilSci

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