@rrrichardzach I’m seeing new commits this past month for forallx:Calgary. Do you anticipate a new edition release right after I finalize my syllabus? :) Sorry, I mean, sometime soon? Thanks much
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Christopher Eliot
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Philosopher of science interested in ecology and biogeography | Associate Professor at Hofstra University
ivanfrA treasure: the talks of the most recent colloquium on Philosophy of Geosciences are now available to all of us
#philsci #geoscience #science #histsci #enviromental #earthscience
#earth
PTPBioLooking back at the journal's 15 most-cited, as it turns 15:
“Multiple Regression Is Not Multiple Regressions: The Meaning of Multiple Regression and the Non-Problem of Collinearity” by Michael B. Morrissey and Graeme D. Ruxton (2018) is the 2nd most cited. Against widely-held misconceptions about collinearity (correlations among explanatory variables), there is no general sense in which it is a problem! #openaccess → https://doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039257.0010.003
The 15 most-cited articles from 15 years of PTPBio, continued:
“(Mis)interpreting Mathematical Models: Drift as a Physical Process” by Roberta Millstein,* Robert Skipper, and Michael Dietrich (2009) is the 12th most-cited. #openaccess → http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptb.6959004.0001.002 *@cepaea (who later became an editor)
As PTPBio turns 15 this year, let's look back at its 15 most-cited articles from 15 years!
“Agent-Based Models as Fictive Instantiations of Ecological Processes” by Steven L. Peck (2012) is 15th most cited. How do agent-based computer models of ecological and evolutionary processes represent the world? → http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptb.6959004.0004.003
NSF-funded phil-sci Summer teaching workshop: “Integrating Statistics Into Your Philosophy Syllabus” at Univ. of Minnesota. I'm going! Hope to connect with some peers. Apply until June 16. → https://samuelcfletcher.com/2023/02/27/summer-teaching-workshop-integrating-statistics-into-your-philosophy-syllabus/
Björn BrembsThe Council of the EU just adopted an #OpenScience proposal:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/
It matches almost verbatim our proposal from 2021:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
We couldn't be more thrilled!
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/
It matches almost verbatim our proposal from 2021:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
We couldn't be more thrilled!
This new article challenges biodiversity's contribution to ecosystem functioning and services. It would be interesting to see replies to this from BEF researchers. → "Chasing Biodiversity Off the Scientific and Conservation Tracks" by Donald S. Maier https://doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.4337 #openaccess
@cdutilhnovaes Do you think there are ever cases where recognizing the dialogical character of deduction could/should change how we think about necessitation or truth-preservation?
Ian Hacking's story in The Taming of Chance about the reification of "normal" out of measurement of population variation, in the midst of the arrival of sampling theory and the idea of probability, is the piece of writing in my field, philosophy of science, that I love most of all. https://dailynous.com/2023/05/10/ian-hacking-1936-2023/
Ian Hacking (1936-2023) | Daily Nous
Ian Hacking, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and an influential figure in the philosophy of science, has died. Professor Hacking is well known for his work across a range of subjects, including philosophy of science, the philosophy of probability, philosophy of math, philosophy of language, philosophy of mental illness, social construction, and the philosophy of history, among others. His books include The Logic of Statistical Inference (1965), The Emergence of Probability (1975), Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? (1975), The Taming of Chance (1990), Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (1995), Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses (1998), The Social Construction of What? (1999), Historical Ontology (2002), and Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All? (2014). You can learn more about his writings here. Hacking joined the faculty at Toronto in 1983. Prior to that, he held positions at Stanford University, University of Cambridge, University of British Columbia, University of Virginia, and Princeton University, as well as visiting positions at a number of institutions. He earned his PhD from Cambridge and undergraduate degrees from Cambridge and British Columbia. Over the course of his career, Hacking was the recipient of many fellowships, awards, and honors, the Killam Prize in 2002, the Gold Medal for Achievement in Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2008, the Holberg Prize in 2009, and the Balzan Prize in 2014. In the citation for the Holberg Prize, the judges write: Hacking has been called a “true bridge-builder”. He is so in several respects. Hacking’s approach is historical, interdisciplinary, and always highly original. Furthermore, his research is a central contribution to bridging the gap that characterised the academic debates of the latter decades of the 20th century on how to understand science. This gap often manifested itself in terms of contested understandings of scientific knowledge, and in particular around the degree to which scientific knowledge was to be seen as socially and historically constructed. Always far from the trenches of these so-called Science Wars, Hacking paved the way forward and showed by example how analytical and historical perspectives may work in combination. He died on May 10th. The University of Toronto..