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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
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Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social‬) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • #PhilSci #HistSci #philsky • Escribo y edito • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Jul 18
“Traits” are central units of biological analysis—but how should they be individuated, and relative to which ontogenetic frame of reference? In my new paper, I argue that answering this isn’t easy—and matters more than it seems. 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio #evosky #evodevo
Screenshot of a journal article titled "Two ontogenetic challenges to trait individuation" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, published in Synthese (2025) 205:219. The abstract reads: "Trait individuation is an epistemically indispensable and heuristically fruitful practice in biological science. However, important ontological issues transcend an epistemology-only reading of what trait individuation entails (e.g., adaptation and homology), prompting scholars to advance models and frameworks to grapple with this problem. Here, I articulate two challenges that arise when advancing theories and frameworks to tackle trait individuation: the synchronicity and the diachronicity challenges. The synchronicity challenge involves specifying the traits an organism has at a given moment in ontogeny, whereas the diachronicity challenge involves understanding the causal processes that drive trait individuation in development and tracing these units across time. To delve deeper, I introduce extant functionalist and structuralist perspectives on trait individuation and evaluate how they address both challenges. Overcoming these challenges is necessary for such accounts to fulfill their theoretical promise of individuating the traits that organisms have in an ontologically sound way."
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Ellen Clarke @ellenclarke.bsky.social · 17h
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Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy
Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 16h
"There will be a bit more action than in the book," says the author.
Philosophy Book to Become Movie - Daily Nous
"Here's the pitch: it's a philosophy movie..." "Huh." "based on a philosophy book..." "I'm listening." "by an actual philosopher." "Go on." "That is, a philosophy professor." "You don't say." "An anal...
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 6h
Unexpectedly, there's an 'education focused' job in HPS at Sydney! At snr lecturer/assoc prof level, which means associate professor in US terms. You'll need to scan down below ruminant science etc to see it, though (perhaps a message there?):
#STS #bioethics #histstm #histsci #histmed
Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) Faculty of Science
Full time and Part-time continuing (tenure-track) academic Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Education Focused) positions at The University of Sydney Opportunity for the best and brightest talented...
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Sheena Hyland @sheenahyland.bsky.social · 13h
The BBC’s The Great Philosophers series with Bryan Magee is some of the best television ever made. It’s brilliant - no bells & whistles, no flashy gimmicks to hide a lack of substance. Just two people talking and thinking carefully. It’s being re-run on BBC4, but it’s also available online.
The Great Philosophers with Bryan Magee (1987) - YouTube
High Quality Reuploads (1987)
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 17h
Tomorrow we will host the conference "The Dānešnāme and Its (Structural) Aftermath," organized by Shahab Khademi & Marco Signori. Join us for a stellar lineup of speakers reflecting on Avicenna’s intellectual legacy! Details for online participation 👇 www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event... #philsky #HPS
Poster for the international conference “The Dānešnāme and Its (Structural) Aftermath,” held at KU Leuven from 15–17 October 2025. The event is convened by Shahab Khademi and Marco Signori, with participants including Kasra Abdavi Azar, Hassan Amini, Hanif Amin-Beidokhti, Amos Bertolacci, Godefroid de Callataÿ, Gholamreza Dadkhah, Zahra Donyai, Carina Dreyer, Mohammad Javad Esmaeili, Ali Golbaz, Husayn Ibrahim, Jules Janssens, Sakineh Karimi, Behnam Khodapanah, Joep Lameer, István Lánczky, Ivana Panzeca, Amir Hossein Pournamdar, Ahmed H. al-Rahim, Laura Tribuzio, Francesco Omar Zamboni, and others. The conference is part of the FIS Project SPACE (The System of Philosophy in Arabic: Charting the Encyclopaedias, 2024–2029), led by Amos Bertolacci at IMT Lucca. Logos of KU Leuven, Lectio, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, and the SPACE Project appear at the bottom. The poster has a dark green background with white and gold accents and features a small image of Arabic manuscript text.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 3d
We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene
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Center for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 6d
Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.
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Wendel van der Sluis @wendelvandersluis.bsky.social · 1d
📣 Honouring Frans de Waal’s spirit of curiosity & empathy 🧠🐒
The Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Celebrating #Primatology, #Ethology & the evolution of social behaviour.
🏆 Announced at #CBEN2026 (Leiden, Apr 14)
⏰ Apply by Jan 15, 2026!
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Call for Submissions for the Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation prize 2026
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Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 1d
Announcement: APDA now has three directors! @kinozhao.bsky.social and @travislacroix.bsky.social joined the project last month and will help lead this year's data gathering/survey effort. Our joint blogpost provides a brief history of APDA and more information about the new co-directors 🥳 #philsky
New Leadership at APDA
As of September 15th, APDA has three directors: Carolyn Dicey Jennings, Travis LaCroix, and Kino Zhao. This post provides a brief history of the project and an interview with the new directors and the...
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 1d
#HPBio #histsci #histSTM #evobio #HPS
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Quarterly Review of Biology @qrb.bsky.social · 5d
The Quarterly Review of Biology turns 100! We are celebrating our anniversary with free-to-read articles from the archives, through 2026. Learn more: ow.ly/xXli50X7Z5B
The Quarterly Review of Biology: QRB 100th Anniversary
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César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social · 1d
New #Preprint: “Migration should be a personal choice, not the only one – a reflection on scientific diasporas”, published in #ARPHA preprints @pensoft.net

Here we discuss how scientific diaporas have operated so far & how to make them Functional!

doi.org/10.3897/arph...
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 1d
Are you curious about what computational methods can offer to #HPS? Then check out the edited volume by Grant Ramsey & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social, published by @upittpress.bsky.social, showcasing key tools, questions, and investigative perspectives 👇📕💻 upittpress.org/books/978082... #philsky #DH
Book cover of "The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), edited by Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block (KU Leuven). The design features a circular, data-inspired visualization with red and blue network patterns radiating from the center, suggesting computational and dynamic structures in science.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 1d
The Church–Fitch paradox of knowability derives the omniscience thesis from the knowability thesis. In response, dynamic conceptions of knowability have been proposed. In a new 📃, Jan Heylen offers a critical examination of the dynamic approach 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #logic
Screenshot of a journal article header from Synthese, volume 206 (2025), article 75. The paper is titled “The dynamic approach to knowability” and authored by Jan Heylen. The page includes the DOI link https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05159-4
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 1d
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:

"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"

📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026

Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
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Federica Rocky Bocchi @federicabocchi.bsky.social · 3d
New paper alert!
My paper "Turning Biodiversity Data into Evidence" has been accepted in BioSocieties, as part of a collection on the making and shaping of #data_communities.

PREPRINT: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26871/
Turning Biodiversity Data into Evidence: The Role of Protocols in the Epistemology of Evidence-Based Conservation - PhilSci-Archive
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Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 4d
We're hiring!

2 postdoctoral fellowships (2026-2027) @ ENN partner institutions in CA/US/AUS/FR/FIN.

Review of applications begins Jan. 2, 2026.

Details here: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/2026-27-post...

#philsky #philjobs #philpostdoc
2026-27 Post-Doc Ad
Supported by the SSHRC Partnership Grant Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy, postdoctoral fellows will conduct research related to the retrieval and recognition of philosophical...
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Philosophy of Education Society @philosophyofed.bsky.social · 4d
The Awkward Question of Method in Philosophy of Education

June 18–20, 2026, University of Oslo, Norway

Call for abstracts (DL: December 1, 2025)
Travel grants (£400) will be provided to selected participants

Submissions and inquiries to: [email protected]

Link in bio!
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Louis Doulas @louisdoulas.bsky.social · 14d
*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky
Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism
Science and Humanism - October 2025
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The Journal of Philosophy @jrnlofphil.bsky.social · 4d
"Wandering Inquiry" by Susanna Siegel #newarticle
#onlinefirst #philosophy #philsky

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Wandering Inquiry - published on October 9, 2025
Inquiry is guided, in the minimal sense that it is not haphazard. It is also often thought to have as a natural stopping point ceasing to inquire, once inquiry into a question yields knowledge of an a...
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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 4d
The "Dialectical Biology Today" Conference is...Today! Here's @jonothingeb.bsky.social welcoming participants to this gathering considering the legacies of Richard Lewontin. 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
You can see the schedule & join on Zoom here! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 4d
For Hispanic Heritage Month, Adriana Minor looks at Mexican physicist Manuel Sandoval Vallarta's career at MIT, where he strove to build scientific relations between the US and Latin America. He returned to Mexico during WW2 when asked to abandon that work to focus only on teaching duties. #HPS
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta: The experiences of a transnational scientist in the US
AIP History Weekly Edition: October 10, 2025
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Philippe huneman @philippehune.bsky.social · 8d
A great new journal just out - philosophy of complex systems
Now issue #1 just out!
Read - and consider submitting a paper !
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Duncker & Humblot @dunckerhumblot.bsky.social · 8d
Out now – our new Yearbook for Philosophy of Complex Systems: duncker-humblot.de/einzelheft/c... @philippehune.bsky.social @chavalarias.org
#Philosophy #ComplexSystems #Complexity
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 4d
¡Enhorabuena, Dani! ¡Qué alegría que el libro ya esté publicado! Tengo muchas ganas de leerlo y ver cómo ha quedado la versión final.
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Daniel J Nicholson @djnicholson.bsky.social · 4d
My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 5d
excellent essay: The Origin of the Research University open.substack.com/pub/asterisk...
The Origin of the Research University
Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?
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