Anna Alexandrova

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I'm teaching a course on the Science of Well-being this semester. If you were taking this course, what would you want to know about?

@AustenLamacraft @PadraigBelton Thank you for listening Austen! Appreciate my Highsett support 😊

@ExpertiseUnder @PadraigBelton It sounded great!

That would be me 💅🏻thank you for noticing @PadraigBelton! Our amazing chaplain Mary Kells taught me to see the structure in this passage and change the mood accordingly.

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@APotochnik @imandrewevans That's great, thanks for sharing! I feel there is some real movement on this in PhilSci recently - you, @ExpertiseUnder, @inkerikoskinen, @GuidoCaniglia all doing great work in that direction. We're also trying to do our part philpapers.org/archive/LUDTPO…

@APotochnik @DavidLudwigWUR @imandrewevans What a useful paper, Angela! Such an analytic overview is much needed, I look forward to reading it.

Great to see philosophers of science seriously engaging with participatory research methods! Participatory action research has been mainstream since 1980s - but better that we show up late to the party than not showing up at all :) link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

@EmmaJCurran Richly deserved, Emma! Warmest congratulations

Just completed my viva, thrilled to say I have passed without corrections! Especially grateful to Richard Holton and Theron Pummer for being such wonderful examiners. Now I’m off for a large glass of wine.

1st day of classes. Students showed much interest, & the questions went straight to the core issues. Three students told me how excited they were that this class was offered. Philosophy Departments hire Phil of Social Sciences we are cool & students are interested in our field.

Very much looking forward to working with @ExpertiseUnder and the team at Cambridge again and on this particular topic too. PhD studentship funding ➡️

@martin_oneill I am trying to square this with this sentence: "The changes include maintaining the same number of studentships for Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDPs), which will deliver a real term increase in funding." What do they mean?!

Behind the management-speak and obfuscation, the core point here is that the AHRC are going to reduce their annual number of funded PHD places in the Arts & Humanities in the UK by a quarter, dropping from around 425 to around 300. A huge blow to the future of UK Humanities. 👇

@k_sonin @TheEconomist @slantchev How do you mean too theoretical? In that expectations never actually converge in reality? Or that you are not sure what will be the indicators of this convergence?

Two lead academics in international relations - not pop-experts or RAND-affiliated charlatans - make an important point on the Russia-Ukraine war in @TheEconomist: economist.com/by-invitation/…. For me, the Goemans and @slantchev's expectations convergence as a pre-condition for peace is a bit too theoretical a construct. Yet it does not make it less relevant or less true.

@FeestUljana Well done Uljana! Very sorry to miss it. Sounds super interesting

@siminevazire 100% good boy

Results are in, we were all very, very wrong!! 25% German Shepherd 20% American Staffordshire Terrier 16% “Mixed breed” 16% Lab 13% American Bulldog

@itaisher Itai, if you can share one with @dd0031 please? (Make him pay actually, or beg)

I have some codes for the other place. DM me if you want one.

@zerdeve Two recs from me: 1) Elisabeth Lloyd (1997). “Feyerabend, Mill, and Pluralism”. Philosophy of Science. 2) Cartwright et al. (2022). The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity. OUP. Chapter 1 “Scientific Method”. @thehangedman can recommend more.

SAVE THE DATE: June 24-28, 2024 Third Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics Co-organized by Lake Como School, INEM, Insubria University, and the University of Milan More information will follow Format similar to that of the 2022 school: ebmp2022.lakecomoschool.org

@cherfeld Lots of exciting new work on how prevalent models of causal explanation deal poorly with structural discrimination. Is that what you mean? arxiv.org/abs/2006.01770

@ExpertiseUnder Thanks a lot, Anna. These are great suggestions. Generally, I wonder how to make the course a bit more 'exciting' through adding new topics alongside discussing the usual suspects, i.e. diff accounts of explanation and their limitations. If you have any suggestions...

Teaching advice needed: for a course on social scientific explanation, what would be recent papers to discuss the ethics of social explanation?

@cherfeld and of course this magisterial work scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol113/is…

@cherfeld Posting a couple: this by Michael Frazer philarchive.org/rec/FRARFS, and also direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…