I'm very excited to announce that I will start a new job tomorrow as a permanent lecturer (assistant professor) in philosophy at the University of Reading!🥳
Routledge released a free preview of the first 31 pages of my book! And it looks spectacular 😊 (click preview pdf):
Available for pre-order on May 26, 2023!
Inspired by the PNAS paper "Why science needs philosophy" I've started a collective blog on medium for scientists and philosophers interested in
#scicomm
When you're at a conference, going up to and talking to a Professor you admire, feels like the academic equivalent of talking to your crush at a party.
What is your worst
#couchsurfing
experience?
Turns out my couchsurfing host in Oslo didn't pay rent - resulting in the police storming the building while I was locked inside - with me ending up in handcuffs...
I've never met a scientist whose actual research or theorizing was influenced by philosophy of science. The philosophers are just shouting into the void.
Considering how philosophers are allowed to write on literally anything, I am surprised to see how (proportionally) few decide to write about non-human animals.
Many qualified people think that Martin Heidegger, for example, was the most breathtakingly original and important philosopher of the past century. Other qualified people think that he was an obscurantist Nazi windbag.
- Peter Godfrey-Smith
I love the fact that scientists are becoming interested in philosophy of science, but calling meta science an emerging discipline is kinda ignoring the work philosophers of science have done for the past 80 years.
The Metascience Meeting
September 5-8, 2019
Stanford University
Come be part of catalyzing this emerging research discipline. An amazing group of speakers and special guests from every area of research with a shared interest in the science of science.
Just had an insane idea:
1. get a PhD in philosophy of science
2. then a PhD in economics (game theory)
3. then a PhD in theoretical biology (social evolution research)
Please stop me. 😂
Hot take: Non-utilitarians are scary. They sacrifice the interests, values, and wellbeing of all sentient beings for the sake of whatever they declare to 'really matter'.