Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing, evidence based policy, measurement.
Professor @hpscambridge.bsky.social
Fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social
Russian Brit
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Anna Alexandrova
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Should scientists make moral judgements during their research?
PhD student Monte Cairns tackles this question in their new research paper. Cairns argues that these concerns, while genuine, do not stop scientists taking moral responsibility for their research.
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge
I hate to repeat myself but summaries of texts are summaries for a purpose. A summary of Carnap’s Aufbau is different if the summary is for (a) what it says about epistemology, (b) its account of philosophy per se, (c) its place in the history of analytic philosophy, etc. THE summary doesn’t exist.
I'll be presenting this work at PSA (San Diego, Nov 2026).
The question is how to think about "formative" (aggregate) constructs and their empirical measurements in the social sciences (e.g., socio-economic status).
The standard view (e.g., Borsboom 2005) requires constructs to be causes of...
New issue of the BJPS is out now, for your quarterly allowance of philosophy of science, as recommended by doctors*.
*Not that sort of doctor.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/current
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