British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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New from the BJPS Review of Books: The Building Blocks of Thought — Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis Reviewed by Alnica Visser www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky

"this policy rests on a conception of philosophy as a discipline conducted by persons, for persons, and as a discipline that aims to cultivate understanding rather than merely the generation of truths" We have an AI policy: www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-... #philsci #philsky

New from the BJPS Review of Books: Neurocognitive Foundations of the Mind —Gualtiero Piccinini Reviewed by Felipe De Brigard www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky

Just accepted: Jeffrey Barrett & Eddy Keming Chen, 'Algorithmic Randomness, Exchangeability, and the Principal Principle' Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Just accepted: The Identity of Stem Cell Kinds – Guglielmo Militello, Louis Paré, Eve Gazave & Lucie Laplane Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky #hpbio

Just accepted: The Mismeasure of Pain – Laurenz Casser Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Just accepted: Model-Based Robustness Analysis as Constraint-Checking – Johannes Nyström Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

If you missed this year's BSPS annual conference, fear not! By the power of technology, we bring you Eleanor Knox's keynote talk, 'The Scale (and Context) Relativity of Spacetime Structure' youtu.be/pAQVXHcZXiY #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: A Pluralist Perspective on Shape Constancy – E J Green Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the latest issue: Causation and the Conservation of Energy in General Relativity – Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez, James Read & Andrés Páez Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: The Informational Profile of Valence: The Metasemantic Argument for Imperativism – Manolo Martínez & Luca Barlassina Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection – Zhixiang Cheng Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: The Many Problems of Spacetime Emergence in Quantum Gravity – Rasmus Jaksland & Kian Salimkhani Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the latest issue: Geometric Pooling: A User’s Guide – Richard Pettigrew & Jonathan Weisberg Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: Pain: Modularity and Cognitive Constitution – Błażej Skrzypulec Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the latest issue: Fixing Stochastic Dominance – Jeffrey Sanford Russell Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

More new stuff! Infinite Scale Scepticism: Probing the Epistemology of the Limit of Infinite Degrees of Freedom and Hilbert Space Non-uniqueness – James D Fraser Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the latest issue: Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice – Ahmad Elabbar Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

More from the new issue: A Hierarchy of Spacetime Symmetries: Holes to Heraclitus – JB Manchak & Thomas Barrett Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: Understanding Structural Representations – Marc Artiga Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

This issue’s Editors’ Choice paper: Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination – Shivam Patel Abstract in alt text or read it for free here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

New issue out now, and it's fifty shade of #philsci! Contains hierarchies, dominance and pain! Also degrees of freedom, matters of justice, understanding, hallucination, holes and Heraclitus! Get it while it's hot! (Spiciness not guaranteed.) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur... #philsky

Just accepted: Memory as a Generative Source of Understanding – Jocelyn Yuxing Wang Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Just accepted: A Problem of ‘Relevance' – Feraz Azhar Abstract in alt text or read the paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Have we got a bunch of numbers for you! That's right, it's a pile of stats concerning submissions, authors, referees, and the journal itself. And, for the dedicated reader, there's our annual report to get your teeth into. (TL;DR: the numbers are good again this year.) #philsci #philsky

It was a great talk, as always. Lots to think about! Many thanks for making these keynotes publicly available

Al Wilson introduces the second keynote of #BSPS2026: Eleanor Knox, ‘The Scale and Context-Relativity of Spacetime Structure’ #philsci #philsky

Danny Davis on Procedural Objectivity and the aims of conservation

Symposium on “Good enough” science with Stephen John, Katherine Furman, Hanna Hilligardt, Matthias Frisch and Torbjorn Gundersen

Keynote Tarja Knuuttila Revisiting Artefactualism

@thebsps.bsky.social BSPS Leeds 2026 is go! Opening with a presidential address by Robin Hendry ‘Metaphysics & Science: A call for History’ sites.google.com/view/bsps202...

The first keynote of #BSPS2026 comes from Tarja Knuuttila, ‘Revisiting Artefactualism: The Model-Target coupling Displaced’ #philsci #philsky

If you are at #BSPS2026, join us this afternoon for our Ask the Editors session (dogs not included, alas)...

it’s happening #bsps2026 #philsci #philsky

If you are at the #BSPS2026 conference next week, join us for our ask the editors’ session, and learn the one weird trick to getting published* *write good (Pictured: Behind the scenes at BJPS Towers with Matilda from marketing and our newest intern, Archie)

If you can't join us at our annual conference, you can at least watch the keynotes, which will be both livestreamed (link below) and later posted on our YouTube channel.  Abstract for the first talk in alt text and link to livestream here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry – Lance Balthazar Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

New from the BJPS Review of Books When Minds Converse – Philip Pettit Reviewed by Cathal O’Madagain Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky #hpbio

From the new issue: Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception – Kevin J Lande Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...  #philsci #philsky

Want an intro to the big ideas in the issue’s Editors’ Choice article? We have a short read for that! Getting to Basecamp with Everettian Quantum Mechanics, by Jake Khawaja #philsci #philsky

From the new issue: Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach – Christophe Malaterre & Martin Léonard Abstract in the alt text ot read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky