The June 2026 SPSP Newsletter is live!
Cambridge, Climate, and Computers!
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
New on the Archive:
Ross, Lauren N. (2026) Causal Explanation in Biology: A Control Element Account. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28496/
If anyone wants to view a copy, we posted a preprint on @philsci-archive.bsky.social:
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30059/
I cannot stress how just a few years ago what is happening with Grok and CSAM would have been a no question Kiss of Death for X.
Musk would be legitimately looking at jail time, the company would be shutting down...
The sheer PANIC that would have engulfed it...
And today? Fucking crickets.
New on the Archive:
Bocchi, Federica and Currie, Adrian (2026) Ecologies of the Past. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27880/
Hey Bsky, I need some pretend data so I can write the dashboard for my class's first-day activity next week docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Gregor Mendel published his work on inheritance in 1866.
Careful experiments, clear data, quantitative reasoning.
His paper was read — and then ignored.
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For nearly 40 years.
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#science 🧪
#biology
If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
