What to do when findings from different scientific studies don't agree? - debug your line of evidence. In this BJPS paper @sofia_blancos and I examine what that could mean philsci-archive.pitt.edu/235…#replication#evidence
🚀The IC2S2'25 website is LIVE, and submissions are OPEN!
📍Norrköping, Sweden | July 21-24, 2025
Call for Abstracts - DDL: Feb 24, 2025
Call for Tutorials - DDL: Jan 17, 2025
🔗Explore details & submit: ic2s2-2025.org/
Stay tuned for exciting keynote announcements!
Preprint!
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For studying expertise and expert performance in high-speed sports, it is first necessary to define performance in a precise and general way.
We're hiring a senior frontend developer! Build the modern library of Alexandria, but with a better UI! Remote, great salary. More formal announcement coming soon, but wanted to get the word out now!
I didn't know about this podcast - thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com… (it took me a while to enter podcast-world) Looks promising. @jordicat recommends the "Leviathan" episodes with Simon Schaffer.
ALT Four men in formal attire stand in a grand marble hall, each holding the Golden Goose Award trophy – a golden spiral design resembling a goose. From left to right, we have Karl Rumelhart and Peter Rumelhart, James McClelland, Geoffrey Hinton. They are smiling and posing together. The background features classical architecture with columns and arches, adding to the formal atmosphere of the event. (photo by Linnea Farnsworth)
When, if ever, is it justified to hold another responsible? What kinds of creatures qualify for praise and blame?
These and other questions related to blaming and praising will be explored at the Responsible Agents workshop on October 4 at HCAS.
helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-coll…
Are you interested in formal epistemology, social epistemology and agent-based modeling and would you like to join the MCMP as a postdoc? Then this postdoc position within our project ‘Argumentation in a Social Context’ might be of interest to you.
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting…
Many institutions - companies, universities - advocating the use of LLMs seem to still entertain the illusion that there are thoughts inside people's heads, and that writing is simply a matter of output of these thoughts. Not so. Writing *is thinking.
🔥Come and work with us (@ModelTransfERC). Three days left to apply for a 3y postdoc in philosophy of science to work on topics related to model transfer in a vibrant phil of sci environment (@iphilLUH) & within the fields of history and phil of modeling (@ERC_Research).
🔥 New article alert!
"Economic Models as Argumentative Devices"
In this, I argue that conceiving of economic models as argumentative devices has many benefits!
Download for free*: philpapers.org/rec/AYDEMA@PhilPapers_CDP
*Free as in 🍺! Beware of opportunity costs though.
📢 Join us for ReSES’s next Distinguished Lecture! ✨
Prof. Doyne Farmer (@doyne_farmer) will present "Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World"—exploring complex systems, economics, and "wicked" social problems.
🗓️ 18.9.2024
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I am happy to announce that I won an ERC Starting Grant @ERC_Research for the project "Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law in the Age of Robots." For the next five years, I will be working on philosophical, ethical, and legal issues related to AI and Robots. #robocrim 1/5