We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Doctoral Scholarship Competition! (The Competition closes at noon on Friday 27 March.) www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...
#philsci #philosophyofscience #phdfunding
A fre days left to apply to the Lake Como Summer School in philosophy of economics
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Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
Very glad that Caterina Marchionni (Milan U., @catemar.bsky.social) has joined Francesco Guala (Milan U.), Raffaello Seri (Insubria U., @rseri.me), and me as a local organizer of the Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Welcome aboard, Caterina!
The East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS) is pleased to announce the relaunch of its Mentorship Scheme for Early Career Scholars! 🥳🔥
More info👇
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Call for applications: 3 PhD Scholarships in social ontology / social cognition. Deadline: 9.06. 2025. The scholarships are funded by the University of Milan on the project The Normative Roots of Social Kinds”. More details can be found here: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Early career philosophers of science may be interested in this online series providing career advice organized by EPSA. I will also be speaking at the session discussing postdocs and tenure-track opportunities: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is excellent and admirable and praiseworthy.
Princeton with a new site to help make the case for academic freedom standup.princeton.edu
Mankiw pledges 10% of salary toward Harvard's defense against the Trump administration. He was chairman of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisors.
Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...
Based on joint work with the great @mariongodman.bsky.social
On my way to give my last talk as a University of Helsinki employee — and at the University of Milan, no less.”
What a great initiative. It's so important to hear the stories of silenced scientists. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The Naval Academy has been ordered to remove 381 books from its library. Is yours among them?
"Authoritarian governments around the world know that universities are spaces of independent thought and thus potential threats. From Hungary to Turkey to Russia, breaking their independence is an early step in the consolidation of control."
The anti-DEI crusade didn't take long to get from "You shouldn't force professors to submit DEI statements" to "We're purging Deirdre McCloskey's memoir from a college library."
Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025!
hisreco.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/c...
Now that it’s as official as it can get (my superior just confirmed my resignation 😅), I am very happy to share that I’ll be taking up the post of Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, starting May 1st.
The next PSA Office Hour features an entire panel! Mark your calendars for the April Panel Discussion on Philosophers of Science in Industry: Biotechnology, Medical Affairs, and AI!
📅 Thursday, April 4th, 2025
🕛 12:00 PM EST
🔗 docs.google.com/form...
Pictures of the philosophers named in the post. Quite a lot of smiling. Presumably, photos taken before they became editors.
The current team includes Mary Leng, @catemar.bsky.social, @kerrymckenzie.bsky.social, @laurennross.bsky.social, Emily Sullivan, @jackiesullivan.bsky.social & Dana Tulodziecki, who give up their time, patience, and enormous expertise in exchange for a very full inbox. Heroic isn’t the half of it.
📄 Call for Papers: the deadline for our upcoming Topical Collection "Philosophical Perspectives on Climate Economics" has been extended to 31 March 2025.
➡️ philsci.eu/Phil-Climate...
EPSA is on Bluesky!
🔥 2025 call for EPSA fellows: 15 spots are available for Central & Eastern European junior scholars, and scholars of all levels affected by the war in Ukraine, to visit a Western European University for 1m, deadline March 31: philsci.eu/fellowships/...
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Call for papers for the closing workshop of our ESSK (economics as serviceable social knowledge) is now out. Submission deadline: March 7, 2025. See below for further info. Please spread widely!
Jaakko Kuorikoski and I wrote a commentary on Gilboa et al.’s recent reflections on economic models - part of an excellent special issue in the Journal of Economic Methodology
It's been a while since we added any new titles to this pack. Surely there are more philosophy journals in these bluer skies?! #philsky
go.bsky.app/KDmWwng
