#philosophyofscience — Public Fediverse posts

🌐❓Why #Reality is #Relations Not #Objects – Do We Need a New #Philosophy of the #NaturalSciences?

Modern #metaphysics does not need to hide behind the natural #sciences. Rather, it serves as a compass for a scientific-theoretical framework.

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/665z013tMwIWapuuFHTxnb?si=TtTU5o68SmC25QDH93WTsw

#StructuralRealism #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #AI #Cybernetics #MindAndMatter #ParadigmShift #Ontology #ScienceEthics #PhilosophyBlog #Podcast #philosophies_de

A falsifiable test for what deserves advancement: a live grounding path to real-world utility, a declared premise chain, no legitimacy from silo alone.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21964565
#OpenScience #PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchMethodology

📄 New publication
Atlas–Rosetta Framework Phase 6 – Paper VII
Observable Reduction Analysis³ (ORA³) Representation Adequacy: A Fitness-to-Purpose Audit for Scientific Investigation
ORA³ completes the methodological trilogy:
• ORA → What reached the observer? • ORA² → How was it interpreted? • ORA³ → Is the representation fit for the scientific question?
The paper argues that representations should be judged not simply by mathematical correctness, but by whether they preserve the governing information required for the investigation.
This also completes Phase 6 and prepares the transition to Phase 7: Atlas – Scientific Cartography.

🔗 Paper link
https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/atlasrosetta-framework-phase-6-interaction?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#AtlasRosetta #HybridMind42 #ORA3 #ScientificMethodology #ScientificCartography #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Research #InformationTheory #SystemsThinking

Are the laws of physics finely tuned for life, or do we simply fit the universe's parameters? The Anthropic Principles push us to ask why observers exist at all. What examples of cosmic fine-tuning do you find most persuasive, and why?
#AnthropicPrinciples #Cosmology #FineTuning #CosmicFineTuning #PhilosophyOfScience
https://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/these-signs-of-the-day-of-the-lord

I am skeptical of the premise that reasoning evolved as a capacity for social persuasion and not as a means of discovery. And the authors have a rosier view of doing science than what actually occurs. Nonetheless the arguments presented in the paper do not hinge on these points and it is a delightful, compelling read.

#sciencephilosophy
#philosophyofscience
#science

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasoning in the Sciences

https://philpapers.org/rec/HEITUE

Anthropic principles ask: is the universe tailored for life, or are we reading meaning into a vast cosmos? This tension between design and chance fuels dialogue in science and faith. How should this shape your view of existence and purpose?
#AnthropicPrinciple #FineTuning #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfScience #ScienceAndFaith
https://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/why-we-need-apologetics-and-what

“Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception”*…

Indeed. And that’s especially true of the institutions that guard the archives that are our cultural heritage. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, which endangers these memory institutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age.

The stakes are high. As Haruki Murakami observed: “Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime… If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”

Michael Menna (a Stanford Law Fellow who co-authored the “Our Future Memory” manifesto) and Lila Bailey (Senior Policy Counsel at one of the world’s most crucial repositories, The Internet Archive), call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information…

… We are living through a troubling paradox: Digital technologies have enabled the production and distribution of more information than ever, yet access to that information isincreasingly fragmented and fragile. These technologies should permit us to engage and learn from all the digital content at our fingertips. Instead, many of the basic rights we grew accustomed to in the physical world are now being overtaken by aggressive market tactics that do not reflect the public-interest values the law was meant to protect. If copyright, privacy, and other regulatory frameworks were designed to balance the interests of creators and users with the public’s need to access and contribute to the wealth of human knowledge, then our increasingly digital information economy has thrown that balance out of whack.

In this new media environment, publishers and other content providers have unprecedented power to control knowledge and culture with technical restrictions and exclusionary licensing terms. Governments also have an easier time censoring what people can see by scrubbing their websites and pressuring commercial platforms to do the same. These sudden changes will feel familiar to anyone who has logged onto a streaming service or social media app to find a movie or news story suddenly missing. But for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”), it poses an existential risk to
their core public service mission of preserving culture and protecting history. When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse.

We write this paper from our perspective at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library that specializes in web archiving, digitization, and the preservation of media in all forms. We feel the harms from these shifts firsthand and hear many of the same complaints from our partner memory institutions around the world. That shared frustration with today’s digital landscape has given rise to an emerging consensus among libraries, archives, museums, and their allies, calling for better legal protections and practical options to continue their services and preserve cultural memory in today’s information age.

This two-part paper (1) presents the looming threat of “vanishing culture” as a first-order political crisis, and (2) discusses the key role that libraries and other memory institutions can play in meeting that crisis.2 In the first part, we examine the underlying causes of vanishing culture and trace its ripple effects along several different facets of modern life: (a) educational resources, (b) journalistic integrity, (c) civic engagement, (d) religious study, and (e) environmental policy. In the second part, we reintroduce a framework of four rights that would ensure memory institutions’ ability to work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital materials. This framework rests on the simple proposition that memory institutions should be allowed to do the same things in the digital world that they’ve historically done in the physical world. It originated in the 2024 statement titled Four Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online3 before it became a global rallying cry for the Our Future Memory movement and its growing list of library, archive, and museum signatories. Together, these memory institutions are striving to combat the political causes and effects of vanishing culture by speaking with one voice to the importance of memory work in an age of digital ephemerality. That is why we call on all memory institutions, large and small, to sign onto the Statement and join the movement. Individuals and communities need memory institutions to educate themselves and freely participate in civic life, and every time a content provider lets critical information disappear online, it offers further proof that today’s digital markets alone do not constitute a viable alternative. If things do not change soon, we risk sleepwalking into a future where both memory institutions and the public they serve will become passive consumers, rather than active stewards of human knowledge…

Menna and Bailey explain the situation; unpack the four rights they propose: collection, preservation, access, and collaboration; then issue a call to action.

Eminently worth reading in full: “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory” (PDF here)

See also Vanishing Culture (full PDF here)

And consider joining me in supporting the Internet Archive.

* Jordan Mechner

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As we preserve and share, we might send open birthday greetings to a man who would surely have understood the importance of Menna’s and Bailey’s arguments: Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he was born on this date in 1902.  One of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, Popper is best known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  (Or more simply put, whereas classical inductive approaches considered hypotheses false until proven true, Popper reversed the logic: conclusions drawn from an empirical finding are true until proven false.)

Popper was also a powerful critic of historicism in political thought, and (in books like The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism) an enemy of authoritarianism and totalitarianism (in which role he was a mentor to George Soros).

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Putting this in the watch-later queue
https://youtu.be/HKMta1w0SgY

#philosophyOfScience #diagnosis #logic #medicine

Just got a brief introduction to Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and I was like "yes, this makes so much sense!"

too early to say if I'm an 🐜-ist, but I may want to look into this some more later

#PhilosophyOfScience

⚛️💥 #ParticlePhysics at the Limit: The Explosive #UnansweredQuestions of Our #Future! 🌌🔭

It is only at the boundaries of our #knowledge that the next great adventure in #research begins.

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/

📺 https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0

#ParticlePhysics #UnansweredQuestionsInPhysics #StandardModel #Cosmology #StringTheory #PhilosophyOfScience #Research #FutureEnergy #Physics #TheMysteriousUniverse #DarkMatter #ConstantsOfNature #Multiverse #Falsifiability #CriticismOfScience #Zoomposium

Philosophy of evolution (Evolution 🧬)

The philosophy of evolution is the branch of the philosophy of biology that examines the philosophical implications of evolution and the intersections of evolutionary biology with other fields such as epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy. Charles Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species is usually considered to be the startin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_evolution

#PhilosophyOfEvolution #Evolution #PhilosophyOfScience

🧠📱 Who actually owns the #digitaldiscourse?

💡 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/22/social-bots-desinformation/

📎 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Wissenschaftstheorie/ringvorlesung/aktuelleRV.html

#ChristianGrimme #CenterforPhilosophyofScience #ZfW #UniversityofMünster #Science #ScienceCommunication #SocialMedia #Disinformation #SocialBots #DigitalReality #MichelFoucault #Discourse #DarkParticipation #ComputationalSocialScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MediaLiteracy #Philosophy #PhilosophyofScience #DigitalPublicSphere #Enlightenment #philosophies_de

All new in SEP, Philosophy of Psychotherapy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychotherapy/

#terapia #psykoterapia #psychotherapy #filosofia #philosophy #mentalhealth #wellbeing #therapy #psychology #harm #epistemicInjustice #biomedicine #cognitiveScience #disability #self #medicine #psykiatria #psychiatry #mentalDisorder #mieli #mielenhäiriö #tieteenfilosofia #philosophyOfScience #sep

Tommaso Piazza reviews Gabriele Contessa's book Science Denial in SERRC, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/06/12/a-review-of-gabriele-contessas-science-denial-tommaso-piazza/

An eralier review was by Maya Goldenberg, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/04/29/science-denial-post-trust-and-epistemic-blame-a-review-of-contessas-science-denial-maya-goldenberg/

#science #tiede #denial #scienceDenial #epistemology #socialScience #climateDenial #pseudoscience #postTruth #truth #misinformation #trust #motivatedInquiry #evidence #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #harm #egoism #collectiveResponsibility #society #futures #planetEarth #resistance #belief #ideology #epistemicSecurity #psychology #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #filosofia

🚀🔮 #FutureofResearch: Why #unansweredquestions matter

#Research doesn’t work by looking back, patting ourselves on the back, and telling each other how great #science was in the past.

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/

📺 https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0

#FutureOfResearch #OpenQuestions #NaturalSciences #Physics #ParticlePhysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #Zoomposium #DarkMatter #StringTheory #TheMysteriousUniverse #IljaBohnet #ThomasNaumann

🧠📱 Who actually owns the #digitaldiscourse?

💡 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/22/social-bots-desinformation/

📎 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Wissenschaftstheorie/ringvorlesung/aktuelleRV.html

#ChristianGrimme #CenterforPhilosophyofScience #ZfW #UniversityofMünster #Science #ScienceCommunication #SocialMedia #Disinformation #SocialBots #DigitalReality #MichelFoucault #Discourse #DarkParticipation #ComputationalSocialScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MediaLiteracy #Philosophy #PhilosophyofScience #DigitalPublicSphere #Enlightenment #philosophies_de

☀️📐 #SolarIntensity & #SolarConstant: The power of the cosmos, calculated using third-grade math

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/

📺 https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0

#Zoomposium #ThomasNaumann #IljaBohnet #SolarConstant #SolarIntensity #SolarTechnology #Physics #TheMysteriousUniverse #NaturalConstants #Cosmology #Fine-Tuning # StringTheory #Metaphysics #KarlPopper #PhilosophyOfScience #CERN #DESY #DarkMatter #Astronomy #RenewableEnergy #Research #Science #Physicists #philosophies_de

🧬⚛️ “Science doesn’t demystify the world—it makes it more mysterious.”

In our new #Zoomposium, we speak with #sciencehistorian and #sciencecommunicator #ErnstPeterFischer.

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/10/romantische-revolution/

🎥 https://youtu.be/PlXoYAQ8xV8

#HistoryOfScience #Philosophy #QuantumPhysics #Romanticism #NaturalScience #QuantumTheory #PhilosophyOfScience #Education #Culture #DescriptionOfNature #Objectivity #ScienceCommunication #Cosmos #Physics #Biology

🧬⚛️ “Science doesn’t demystify the world—it makes it more mysterious.”

In our new #Zoomposium, we speak with #sciencehistorian and #sciencecommunicator #ErnstPeterFischer.

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/10/romantische-revolution/

🎥 https://youtu.be/PlXoYAQ8xV8

#HistoryOfScience #Philosophy #QuantumPhysics #Romanticism #NaturalScience #QuantumTheory #PhilosophyOfScience #Education #Culture #DescriptionOfNature #Objectivity #ScienceCommunication #Cosmos #Physics #Biology

🌞#Sun – The billion-year energy scandal!⚡

The #Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #ThomasNaumann and Dr. #IljaBohnet focuses precisely on such fundamental #unansweredquestions in #science:

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/

📺https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0

#NuclearFusion #Physics #Cosmology #Energy #Einstein #TheoryOfRelativity #OpenQuestions #DarkMatter #StringTheory #Metaphysics #DESY #PhilosophyOfScience #Universe #Cosmos #FineTuning #Research #Science #Philosophy #Astrophysics #NuclearPhysics

"When Proofs Deceive — A Taxonomy of Mathematical Certainty in Physics"

Math proves logical consistency under assumptions — not physical reality. Four-type taxonomy of proofs. Ultrametric error confinement as case study. A "proof-physics contract."

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20266032

#Math #Physics #PhilosophyOfScience #FormalVerification #QuantumComputing #Research

La matematica si inventa o si scopre?

Secondo Sergiu Klainerman, matematico di Princeton, noto per aver dimostrato la stabilità dello spazio vuoto e dei buchi neri nelle equazioni di Einstein, le verità matematiche esistono al di là dell'esistenza degli esseri umani.

Le strutture matematiche sarebbero preesistenti e noi, studiando l'universo, le portiamo alla luce.

https://aeon.co/essays/for-sergiu-klainerman-maths-is-a-fact-to-be-divined

#mathematics #physics #philosophyofscience #matematica #fisica