Center for Philosophy & History of Science @ BU

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Yes! We are over at the blue place too and it's pretty great. We'd love to have you join us.

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Time to fly to the friendly skies...

The videos of the talks from our recent Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science on "Philosophy of the Geosciences" are now available up on our website: bu.edu/cphs/colloquiu…

A wonderful end to our 63rd annual BCPS w/ great enthusiasm about all the fantastic work coming out in philosophy of geosciences! Also my last BCPS as Director, stepping down after 13 years. Happy to announce Rachell Powell is stepping in as new @BUCPHS Director! Viva CPHS!

David Sepkoski closing out our #BCPS session on Philosophy of the Geosciences discussing how every era gets the extinction story it deserves... #PhiGeo

Penultimate #BCPS speaker & Phi-Geo grad ⁦@Federica_Bocchi⁩ on two ways conservation paleoecology can inform philosophy of science, & two ways philosophy of science can inform conservation paleoecology.

Lukas Rieppel on Indigenous knowledge of fossils, gold rush & fossil exploitation of indigenous land, & temporal colonization of Great Plains displacing indigenous temporalities & histories. #BCPS #PhiGeo

A tour de force by ⁦⁦@Miguel0hnsrg⁩ on early appearance geoid & Laplacian severe testing. #BCPS #PhiGeo

Next up Carlos Santana on how field research js changing & what philosophers of science are missing in focusing in "laboratory science" as paradigm for science to exclusion of field science. #BCPS #PhiGeo

Tamara Pico on the dimensions of field research & origin stories in the geosciences that perpetuate exclusion in the field.

Starting now! Day 2 of our ⁦@BUCPHS⁩ #BCPS on Philosophy of Geosciences with a fantastic talk by ⁦@mauritiantales⁩ on scientific colonialism in paleontology. 🦕 #PhiGeo

A great talk in our Boston Colloquium on Philosophy of the Geosciences by Carol Cleland on an historical approach to mineral reclassification. #BCPS #PhiGeo

Teru Miyake on Huxley's mill. #BCPS #PhiGeo

Meghan Page on what makes proxies unique. Drawing on great historical work by ⁦@MelissaCharenko⁩ #BCPS #PhiGeo

Kicking off our afternoon session of #BCPS on #PhiGeo is ⁦@AjaCWatkins⁩ on paleoclimate analogue models.

3rd speaker @derekdturner starting w/ aesthetic appreciation of geologic diagrams of local MA couple Orra & Edward Hitchcock. How scientific knowledge & history can enrich our aesthetic experience. #BCPS #PhiGeo

Our Boston Colloquium on Philosophy of the Geosciences is off to a fabulous start w/ ⁦@rachellaudan⁩ on geology as the Cinderella science. #BCPS #PhiGeo

💥LAST DAY TO REGISTER for online link.💥 🌏 Join us tomorrow for our @BUCPHS Colloquium on PHILOSOPHY OF THE GEOSCIENCES 🌋held Friday May 5th & Saturday May 6th, 10am - 5:30. Event will be hybrid w/ in person & via Zoom. Register today for free at link bu.edu/cphs