Soazig Le Bihan
@soaziglebihan.bsky.social
Professor of #Philosophy, University of Montana. Models, ecology/conservation, science and values. Strong interest in animal issues and philosophy of law. Working on a book on scientific understanding. PSA DEI Caucus Senior Co-Chair.
www.soaziglebihan.org
www.soaziglebihan.org
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Become a Visiting Fellow or Postdoc!
Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows!
More info and application link is available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/
#PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchFellowship #PostdocOpportunities
Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows!
More info and application link is available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/
#PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchFellowship #PostdocOpportunities
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Become a Visiting Fellow or Postdoc!
Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows!
More info and application link is available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/
#PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchFellowship #PostdocOpportunities
Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows!
More info and application link is available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/
#PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchFellowship #PostdocOpportunities
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I will be offering a graduate seminar during the winter quarter on the politics of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and civility (and its critics). If you know any graduate students who might be interested, please let them know!
www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I will be offering a graduate seminar during the winter quarter on the politics of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and civility (and its critics). If you know any graduate students who might be interested, please let them know!
www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...
www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...
Interesting article, by Vera Matarese: Machine-Learning-based experimental strategies "can be epistemically salient with respect to understanding"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Machine learning in experimental physics: from optimization to understanding - Synthese
Synthese - The pervasive employment of machine learning (ML) in experimental physics raises questions about its epistemic impact. While ML techniques are accelerating scientific progress at an...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Interesting article, by Vera Matarese: Machine-Learning-based experimental strategies "can be epistemically salient with respect to understanding"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Theodoros Stamos, Sacrifice, 1948
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135768
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135768
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Theodoros Stamos, Sacrifice, 1948
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135768
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135768
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they're expanding a probe to include the Holocaust denial
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French authorities charges X over Holocaust-denial comments by AI chatbot Grok
On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.
www.lemonde.fr
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
they're expanding a probe to include the Holocaust denial
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
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On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 learn about project EPIC: here is our website with details of our seminar series, our open access articles and books, our six case studies and many online resources for everyone epistemicinjusticein... #philsky #epistemicinjustice
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 learn about project EPIC: here is our website with details of our seminar series, our open access articles and books, our six case studies and many online resources for everyone epistemicinjusticein... #philsky #epistemicinjustice
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“How science is changing”
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
#philsci
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Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
#philsci
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
How Science is Changing | Panel Discussion | Philosophy of Science Association/PEWS Event
An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion. Join scholars from institutions across North America as they discuss the ways in which science is changing in their fi...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“How science is changing”
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
#philsci
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist!
@ucpews.bsky.social
#philsci
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
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Hello all! The PSA DEI Caucus is coming to BlueSky! Hoping to share news about our wonderful membership and our @philsci.bsky.social community at large! Doggo Pic for attention. #philosophy #hps #dei
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Hello all! The PSA DEI Caucus is coming to BlueSky! Hoping to share news about our wonderful membership and our @philsci.bsky.social community at large! Doggo Pic for attention. #philosophy #hps #dei
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Kate Finley a center fellow is not only giving a talk today at the @center4philsci.bsky.social which you can follow on line but she is also recorded a five minute fellow video
Watch it.
Watch it.
5 Minute Fellow - Kate Finley
YouTube video by Center for Philosophy of Science
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November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Kate Finley a center fellow is not only giving a talk today at the @center4philsci.bsky.social which you can follow on line but she is also recorded a five minute fellow video
Watch it.
Watch it.
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Physicists have long been enamored with “beautiful” models—but this seems to have changed in high-energy physics. In his new paper, Martin King argues that experimental contexts strongly determine the pursuitworthiness of “ugly models” 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #HPS
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Physicists have long been enamored with “beautiful” models—but this seems to have changed in high-energy physics. In his new paper, Martin King argues that experimental contexts strongly determine the pursuitworthiness of “ugly models” 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #HPS
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🆕 Online first: "On Elephants and Octopuses"
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@karimbschir.bsky.social & ISiS' @simonlohse.bsky.social propose to distinguish between a representative and an integrative model for pluralism in scientific policy advice.
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@karimbschir.bsky.social & ISiS' @simonlohse.bsky.social propose to distinguish between a representative and an integrative model for pluralism in scientific policy advice.
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice
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October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🆕 Online first: "On Elephants and Octopuses"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@karimbschir.bsky.social & ISiS' @simonlohse.bsky.social propose to distinguish between a representative and an integrative model for pluralism in scientific policy advice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@karimbschir.bsky.social & ISiS' @simonlohse.bsky.social propose to distinguish between a representative and an integrative model for pluralism in scientific policy advice.
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Don’t miss our Lunch Time Talk with Oron Shagrir!
📅 Tomorrow, October 14th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
📅 Tomorrow, October 14th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Don’t miss our Lunch Time Talk with Oron Shagrir!
📅 Tomorrow, October 14th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
📅 Tomorrow, October 14th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
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Happening Today at Noon!
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Oron Shagrir!
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Oron Shagrir!
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Happening Today at Noon!
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Oron Shagrir!
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Oron Shagrir!
Title: "The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence"
Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97226295421
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
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CfP for a Workshop on "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution", April 2026 in Hannover 👇 #philsci #philsky
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 👇
"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 👇
October 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Two cool-looking articles in my mailbox today: one by @193.bsky.social making the case for the underdetermination of data, and another by Ahmad Elabbar providing an institutional analysis of value influence in climate science. #philsci #phisky #valuesinscience #climate
Links in comments
Links in comments
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Two cool-looking articles in my mailbox today: one by @193.bsky.social making the case for the underdetermination of data, and another by Ahmad Elabbar providing an institutional analysis of value influence in climate science. #philsci #phisky #valuesinscience #climate
Links in comments
Links in comments
Very excited for a #envhum weekend at the Flathead Lake Bio Station. Big thanks to Craig Calender, Karen Kovaka, and the UC San Diego Center for Practical Ethics for making this possible!
On the menu: misinformation in the environmental sciences, animal communication, and human-wildlife conflict 🌎
On the menu: misinformation in the environmental sciences, animal communication, and human-wildlife conflict 🌎
September 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Very excited for a #envhum weekend at the Flathead Lake Bio Station. Big thanks to Craig Calender, Karen Kovaka, and the UC San Diego Center for Practical Ethics for making this possible!
On the menu: misinformation in the environmental sciences, animal communication, and human-wildlife conflict 🌎
On the menu: misinformation in the environmental sciences, animal communication, and human-wildlife conflict 🌎
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We’ve added a new selection of forthcoming titles to our Titles for Review sheet. If one sparks your interest (or if there’s another you’ve been eyeing), send us a request at [email protected]! tinyurl.com/ybh7mpvd #BookReview #PhilSky #OpenAccess
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We’ve added a new selection of forthcoming titles to our Titles for Review sheet. If one sparks your interest (or if there’s another you’ve been eyeing), send us a request at [email protected]! tinyurl.com/ybh7mpvd #BookReview #PhilSky #OpenAccess
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"If we want philosophy to be genuinely global, just, and conducive to the pursuit of truth, we need to be more aware of the invisible labor that many NNES philosophers invest to be heard, and more willing to challenge the structures that may keep them quiet."
#philsky
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The Hidden Costs of Being a Non-Native English Speaker in Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous
Last year, a group of scholars launched an international survey of philosophers on the dominant language of philosophy today---"academic English"---and the challenges faced by native and non-native sp...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"If we want philosophy to be genuinely global, just, and conducive to the pursuit of truth, we need to be more aware of the invisible labor that many NNES philosophers invest to be heard, and more willing to challenge the structures that may keep them quiet."
#philsky
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#philsky
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September 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky
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The Ethics of Cultural Heritage (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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September 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethi...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethi...
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Émilie du Châtelet challenged the Enlightenment, and history nearly forgot her. Jon Templeman reviews Andrew Janiak’s 'The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman', a bold reexamination of philosophy’s hidden foundations. Read the review here: buff.ly/znhgfdx #EmilieDuChatelet #PhilSky #BookReview
September 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Émilie du Châtelet challenged the Enlightenment, and history nearly forgot her. Jon Templeman reviews Andrew Janiak’s 'The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman', a bold reexamination of philosophy’s hidden foundations. Read the review here: buff.ly/znhgfdx #EmilieDuChatelet #PhilSky #BookReview
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Some years ago, Bayer tried to recruit me for a project on trust in science. (I listened, but then declined.) Now it’s clear not only do they not trust science, they don’t trust justice, either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/c...
G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms
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September 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Some years ago, Bayer tried to recruit me for a project on trust in science. (I listened, but then declined.) Now it’s clear not only do they not trust science, they don’t trust justice, either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/c...
September 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So… I have disappeared for a month. Apologies. Travels, a new job (Associate Dean), and the beginning of a heavy semester have kept me quite busy. Looking forward to hanging out here again. And for now, here is my review of @cepaea.bsky.social’s fascinating book, The Land is our Community. #philsci🌎
Review of Roberta L. Millstein’s The Land Is Our Community - Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium. Chicago, IL: University of Chic...
Review of Roberta L. Millstein’s The Land Is Our Community - Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium. Chicago, IL: University of Chic...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
So… I have disappeared for a month. Apologies. Travels, a new job (Associate Dean), and the beginning of a heavy semester have kept me quite busy. Looking forward to hanging out here again. And for now, here is my review of @cepaea.bsky.social’s fascinating book, The Land is our Community. #philsci🌎
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July 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM