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Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowleβ¦
I talked to someone who had studied the philosophy of psychology. She said there was a big debate in those circles as to whether or not a βpersonβ is defined as a collection of stories. And I thought it was crazy and wrong but after 10 sβ¦
Just want to share that my new book finally has a title!! *The Secret Life of Science: How research is biased and why we need it anyway* will be published with the Yale University Press trade division It puts many best hits of philosopβ¦
"Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences" elifesciences.org/articles/112... @zdblount.bsky.social shared this thought-provoking paper with the lab group.
a whole lotta people here who wouldn't make it through the first day of philosophy of science 101. the first thought experiment might make their head explode
Rachel Carsonβs Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. β[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.β π±π # HistSTM π§ͺβ¦
My student, Mikhail Volkov, has a new paper coming out in Philosophy of Science! Abstract in the post below. He's great and the paper is really interesting too! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Interesting π° @theguardian.com by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social on non-neural cognition: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... Confronted with this polarizing debate, @philosobio.bsky.social & I wrote a balanced take on basal #cognition β¦
"newly discovered microbe living inside ancient stromatolite communities may offer a rare look at how complex life first emerged...an Asgard archaeon physically connected to a bacterium...Scientists think similar partnerships billions of yβ¦
Author copies of 'The Idealized Brain: Uniting Philosophy of Science and Computational Neuroscience' (MIT) have arrived. Exciting! Stay tuned for its official open access release on 15 December 2026. For more information about the book, seβ¦
And if you are interested in slime molds, Matt's Cambridge Element is essential reading for learning more about their life cycle, unique physiology, morphology, and behavior, and why this organism is so fascinating for philosophers too! β¦
New ππ¨! @rosetrappes.bsky.social & I explore how #environment & #niche concepts are understood & mobilized across the life sciences & beyond, highlighting similarities & differences through a rich range of examples! π philsci-archive.β¦
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