Kent Staley

@koalaqualia Sorry about your Covid case; hope you recover quickly. I am missing PSA this time, so I’m happy to see your poster here. Very interested in your project!

@Helenreflects Recalling something from David Hull’s Science As a Process to the effect of “there’s not much difference between publishing a paper and throwing it away.”

@larkofadefinite Teaching both Logic and Gender and Science this semester, so I am very interested to read this! Thanks for posting.

@LauraJSnyder @UChicago Congratulations, Laura! Thanks for sharing this.

Seven years ago my son and I welcomed my husband into our lives. Today we celebrated our “famiversary” on our slow drive to take our 18 year old to college. @uchicago here we come!

@Helenreflects So sorry about that! I’ve been playing the same game and so far I have gotten “miserable cold” - but really miserable!

@Helenreflects @sophisteuein @Finite_jest @CroftSpeaks When the sirens go, we go. In the basement now!

@Helenreflects (one of) ours is studying physics….

@Helenreflects Well if experimental philosophy (in Newtonian sense) counts, then how about this? nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/joseph…

@Helenreflects Thanks for the shout-out Helen! Here is another cool paper by @sophritson: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@Helenreflects I wasn’t a philosophy major as an undergrad, but I did grad school at Johns Hopkins where Peirce spent his only three years of actual academic employment (and Dewey was one of his students). And I do teach it!

@haicinnamon Reading Against Method as an undergrad had a lot to do with my becoming a philosopher of science. That seems kind of insane now!

Post spring term, summer reading: I’m going back to the start.

@Helenreflects Spite.

@haicinnamon Thanks for your appreciative comment, Haixin! I am so glad to see your continuing work in this area.

Reading Kent Staley's excellent work on unpacking the social epistemology of scientific groups today; his work has been so underappreciated in current discussions of collective justification, group belief, collective evidence, etc. Highly recommend!

@Helenreflects There used to be a place here in St. Louis called the Tavern of Fine Arts. This would have been perfect for it!

New paper out. Kent Staley and I demonstrate how measurement uncertainty in particle physics can render circularity epistemically benign, and how this constitutes an in-practice solution to a form of Duhemian underdetermination. #OA sciencedirect.com/science/articl…