I guess it only makes sense that I received my copies of the book the same day of a scheduled blood donation, so I can think about the book in the hospital that looks over my favourite building in Milan (Torre Velasca).

3-year postdoc position at University of Bristol to work with me on my Foundations of Longtermism project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust! The project will run September 2024 - August 2027. It will focus on the decision-theoretic and ethical foundations for longtermist arguments.

New paper in the EJPS with Federica Russo! The science and values literature largely pays attention to how values influence science; here we show, with examples from medicine and AI, how scientific concepts and methods too can promote some values rather than others link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy New Year!

I have a paper that is also in a worse situation, flagship journal as well - I'll tell you about it next time we have the opportunity to chat ;)

When you get R&R after revising a paper #academia#philsci#philsky

What qualities make a good scientist, according to scientists? In our latest paper in @historyofscience.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is also how papers and authors look like after several rounds of revisions

Has anyone traced how the move towards rigorization of geometry and real analysis in the 19th century, and the movement away from appeals to geometric intuition, parallels the move towards objectivity in science that Daston and Galison describe? #philsky#histsky#histsci#philsci

The Humanities Department at MacEwan University (in which department I happen to work) is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science. Details here: www.macewan.ca/about-macewa...