Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda

Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda

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Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven • Book Reviews Editor of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science (@jgps.bsky.social) #PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio #philsky • Escribo y edito • https://linktr.ee/afabregastejeda

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We are really happy to announce that our collective book is now available online! 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... For those who still prefer physical books, pre-orders for the print edition are also now open! 📚👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsci #histsci #philsky

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The 2025 The International Society for the History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) biennial meeting will take place in Porto, Portugal, 20–25 July. Call for session proposals & papers with submission deadline 1 November, 2024 #hpbio #philsci #paleobio #histsci

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Yesterday, I gave a talk about Agnes Arber and her understanding of teleology in plants at the #HOPOS2024 - my first talk at a scientific conference ever 🤓 Very happy that it went so well and that I was in such a great session about the philosophy of biology! #HPBio #PhD

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The Reasoner is a valuable institution, I read most issues. This one interviews Jon Williamson, the long time editor, and Alexandra Trofimov on evidential pluralism . Sadly the newsletter is leaving Kent due to closure of Philosophy but it's good to see Milan University Press taking over. #philsky

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10th Integrated History & Philosophy of Science Conference (&HPS 10), California Institute of Technology, March 27-29, 2025. Submit abstracts by August 18, 2024 (Website not updated integratedhps.org/events.html but submission link here: auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st...) #philsci #histsci

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Updated entry on the Philosophy of Biology in Latin America #philbio #philsci plato.stanford.edu/entries/phil...

Philosophy of Biology in Latin America (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) plato.stanford.edu

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I am elated to write that Media and the Mind was given the 2024 Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science! I am greatly honoured to receive the award. #hps #histsci #manuscripts #hstm #histmed

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Our new GPP paper is out. open access! We present evidence of a tension in folk epistemology: stakes matter and do not matterfor knowledge ascription. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A puzzle about knowledge ascriptionsonlinelibrary.wiley.com Philosophers have argued that stakes affect knowledge: a given amount of evidence may suffice for knowledge if the stakes are low, but not if the stakes are high. By contrast, empirical work on the i...

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This just arrived, with contributions from @michelamassimi.bsky.social Milena Ivanova, Nancy Cartwright, Mathias Egg, Finnur Dellsen, Michael Friedman and, of course, Bas van Fraassen himself.

#philsci #philsky #histsci #STS

Delighted to be part of this special issue on qualitative methods used to study science (alongside superstars Nancy Nersessian, Sabina Leonelli, Rachel Ankeny, Lisa Osbeck, and others), commemorating Ian Mitroff's work on the moon landing. t.ly/1twvt

Qualitative methods to investigate “How science gets done”t.ly Describes a special section of Qualitative Methods (edited by Lisa M. Osbeck, Nancy J. Nersessian, Stephen L. Antczak) that was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of The Subjective Side of Science by Ian Mitroff.

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Hello! I would like to do some reading on the history of Botany. What do you recommend? #academicsky #histsci

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Check out the BSA Essay Prize winning papers from over the years, collected here for your delectation: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky

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I have a new chapter out in the fantastic book “The Riddle of Organismal Agency” edited by @afabregastejeda.bsky.social and @roto-rub.bsky.social. I argue that behavioral novelties may provide a unique window that reorients the study of animal behavior within the context of organismal agency.

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We currently have open calls for: PSA@APA Outreach and Engagement Prize UPSS Session @ PSA24 Details here - mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...

Philosophy of Science Associationmms.philsci.org

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Apply for a Radcliffe Fellowship! Deadline for humanities, social sciences, & creative arts is Sept 12 2024 & for science, engineering, & math is Oct 3, 2024. They welcome all areas, but are particularly interested in projects on climate change. #philsci #histsci 🧪⚒️ #BlackInSTEM #IndigenousInSTEM 👩🏻‍🔬🗃

Become a Radcliffe Fellow | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Universitywww.radcliffe.harvard.edu Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world.

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We are excited to announce the next ROTO workshop: "Flora in Focus: Tracing the Roots of Plants in History, Philosophy & Society". It will bring together a fantastic group of philosophers, historians, and scientists! 28-29 November 2024! rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora #philsci #philbio #histsci

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Via Katherine Brading: Submissions invited for 2024 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Physics in the writings of #19thC women Winner receives $1000, workshop, & their paper considered for publication in SHPS. Deadline: September 8th, 2024 www.duchateletprize.org #philsci #histsci ⚛️

www.duchateletprize.org Submissions are invited on the writings of women in the nineteenth century that discuss or otherwise engage with the concepts, foundations, or methods of any area of physics, or with the nature and scope of physics itself.

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📖 New journal issue HPLA 27.1 https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/27/1/hpla.27.issue-1.xml 1/9 #philosophyhttps://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/27/1/hpla.27.issue-1.xml 1/9 #philosophy @philosophy

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Gearing up for #HOPOS2024 beginning July 9th? Thomas Uebel's "Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy of Science" is open to download: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy of Science | HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science: Vol 7, No 1www.journals.uchicago.edu Philosophy of history and history of philosophy of science make for an interesting case of “mutual containment”: the former is an object of inquiry for the latter, and the latter is subject to the dem...

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CALL FOR PAPERS Pragmatism & Measurement Workshop on March 15th & 16th, 2025 @center4philsci.bsky.social Explores how pragmatist frameworks might transform our understanding of the character & constituents of successful scientific measurement Deadline November 26 #philsci #measurement #pragmatism

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Save The Date-The second meeting of the Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association will be held at the University of Santa Barbara April 24-26 2025. Stay tuned for info about talks and events—including a tour of Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve to observe plovers!

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Karen Kovaka and I wrote a paper about relative frequency controversies and the curious dynamics of knowledge production (and destruction) they can cause

Relative Frequency Controversies and the Growth of Biological Knowledgejournals.publishing.umich.edu Relative frequency controversies, so common in the biological sciences, pose something of a puzzle. Why do biologists routinely engage in disputes that (a) are rarely settled and (b) arguably wouldn’t...

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Can metaphysical questions about causation be reframed as practical choices of causal frameworks? In a new #philsci article, Zili Dong proposes a Carnapian-Pragmatist approach to explore how causal ontology and methodology interact in scientific practice 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky

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Book reviews assigned to an issue are always free to read for six months at Philosophical Psychology. Here Andra Meneganzin reviews Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene Social Contract doi.org/10.1080/0951... #FreeAccess #philsky

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2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship (Level 1) on the international research project #PERITIA Network of Research on #Trust and #Expertise, working with Prof. Maria Baghramian at #UCD School of #Philosophy. #PhilSky #PhilJobs universityvacancies.com/university-c...

UCD Post-doct Fellow L1 (PERITIA), Philosophy, 24 Months | University Vacancies IrelandUniversity Vacancies Logouniversityvacancies.com

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Lisa Jardine Grant of Royal Society offers funding for: Extended research trips for UK & overseas-based researchers to use Royal Society's rich historical collections & related London collections (up to £8,000 available for travel & subsistence) & more. Deadline 10 October 2024, 3pm. #histsci #HPS 🗃️

The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme | Royal Societybit.ly Travel grants to support archival research and career development in interdisciplinary studies.

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New book chapter by our former visiting member Mariano Martín Villuendas! 😍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In it, he discusses the main challenges posed by epigenetics and the arguments adduced against considering it as a full-fledged mechanism of inheritance. #HPBio #PhilSci

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Via Hasok Chang: “Teaching Philosophy of Science in the World”. PSA International Syllabus Repository & Prize. Call for syllabi. Prize $500 Deadline for submissions 15 Sept '24. Must be PSA member. Non-members encouraged to apply. PSA’s Sponsor-a-Scholar program if can't afford membership #philsci

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Peter Bowler looks at the completion of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin with a review of the final four volumes: tinyurl.com/2msdobk2 #histsci

The end of an era | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Coretinyurl.com The end of an era - Volume 57 Issue 1

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Baylor University History Department seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Medicine at the Assistant Professor level Deadline September 6, 2024, 11 pm CDT. #histsci #HistMed 🗃️ apply.interfolio.com/148215

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