Miscellaneous

• Philosophy of science & corona
• Philosophers who work outside of academia: how to make the jump from academic philosophy to a non-academic job
• Why is Philosophy of Science/Physics useful (to Physicists)?
  • Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson, against the usefulness of philosophy
  • Sean Carroll’s response
  • Wayne Myrvold on what Neil deGrasse Tyson got right
  • Wayne Myrvold posting defences of philosophy by Sean Carroll and Carlo Rovelli, and soon by Lee Smolin and Ivette Fuentes. (See also this more recent piece by Rovelli)
  • And of course we mustn’t forget Tim Maudlin
  • More recently: Bridget Falck on the usefulness of philosophy for cosmology, and Josh Norton & Nick Huggett on the relation between philosophy and physics.
• Replication crisis: The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences advises a bigger role of philosophers of science in solving the replication crisis
  • One dutch response, and another

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