Helene Scott
Philosophy-medicine-bodies | working on messy categories in clinical enquiry @STSucl | previously @camHPS & @ClareHall | PhD from Medical Museion (@UCPH)
- Reposted by Helene Scott2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci
- Reposted by Helene ScottTwo-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025. buff.ly/MhR4PcK
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- Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025. buff.ly/MhR4PcK
- Reposted by Helene ScottWe're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions #philsky #philsci www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...
- Reposted by Helene Scott#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.
- Reposted by Helene Scott#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science AOC: Open Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof Deadline: November 1 #PhilSci #philsky
- Reposted by Helene ScottNew paper out jointly with the formidable @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social in a volume edited by Pietro Gori honouring Mary Hesse: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- 🎉 can’t wait to dig into this book - and to add it to my syllabus for philosophers-to-be. The glimpses I’ve seen are full of exciting ideas, and I’m sure the full thing is even richer. #sts #philsci 🙌 to @adrian-currie.bsky.social and @phieveigl.bsky.social for pulling this into existence
- Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci
- Today we’re taking the #CultureLab to @britishacademy.bsky.social - to set a tone of connection and joyful energy at the BA ECRN National Postdoctoral Conference ✨ celebrating the wonderful promise of early career, and creating support networks for the difficult bits. @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social
- @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social taught me this: no better way to disrupt academic stiffness than bringing 🎈into the conversation. Pre-action shots from the beautiful @britishacademy.bsky.social before we forgot about our phones in all the excitement of moving and talking #researchculture #sts #ECR
- Reposted by Helene Scott“There is a whole world of unheard voices and unsought inspiration waiting to inject freshness and novelty into philosophers.” ✨ Yes ✨ #philsky
- Start-of-year awayday with @stsucl.bsky.social - we’ll kick off at Tate Modern, discussing the relations between sts and art, before we head into workshopping AI issues and large scale teaching formats ☀️
- First work: Rothko’s black on maroon (1958). On how the quiet and unsettling can call us to connect. On the uncomfortable of emergent objects and on restaurant, museums and universities as ambiguous places between consumption and contemplation #sts
- Second: Cildo Meireles’ Babel (2001). On how we tell the history of technology, on noise and ways of attending to sound, on the transition from a technology of resistance to one of state communication, and on the return of chaos as the return of the need for households to have transiter radios.
- Finally, Richard Long’s Rock installations (~1980s). On making traces in the real world as an art (and philosophical?) form - and how we display this after the fact? On making the ordinary noticeable by organisation and classification. And on stones as nature, ressource and symbol.
- Reposted by Helene ScottAdrian Research Fellowship, a 3-4 year paid Postdoc in any area of philosophy at Darwin College, Cambridge U, invites applications if w/in 3 yrs PhD. Submit app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/dar... by 3 October 2025. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/ www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #PhilSci #PhilJobs
- This looks like an exciting new steering committee - not least because I spot several members with an interesting in the intersection between qualitative empirical methods and #philsci 👀✨
- For anyone interested in her early ideas, @loadofbunk.bsky.social just published an exciting chapter on this 🙌 bsky.app/profile/load...
- Also worth noting that @msuarez.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the same volume on *Inference and Negative Analogy* – and broken bones, of course 🦴. #philsci link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- Today, working from Whipple Library in Cambridge to do research on Mary Hesse. Here is her first book (1954) addressing the compatibility of science and religion, with early thoughts on operationalism and models - pushing against established positivist accounts of science. #philsci #hps
- Returning to online life to share a photo from my new office - 1st day at @stsucl.bsky.social ❤️🔥 Can’t wait to get into teaching and research and wonderful conversations in this place!
- Reposted by Helene ScottThe Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301
- Reposted by Helene ScottTwo tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social philjobs.org/job/show/29502 philjobs.org/job/show/29506 Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race #philsci #philtech #philjobs
- Celebrating traces of the CultureLab at @pdncambridge.bsky.social with a mini exhibition of images from the Living Science performance 🥂🧬🥼🔬✨ #sciart @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social
- Reposted by Helene ScottInternational Philosophy of Medicine Online Reading group starts up again this week! This term we are focusing on articles rather than a monograph over several meetings Meetings are Weds at 5pm and Thurs at 9am UK time Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ Please share widely!
- Had a wonderful afternoon yesterday, borrowing/testing a new format: Walking seminar discussing co-creation and #STS methods (🖇️Mol). My conversation path touched questions of extractivism, the problem of neat ideals of collaboration, and the always central “what for?” in methods.
- 🌞 A sunny springlike walking seminar to #Grantchester: Is there a benefit to co-creation’s lack of specificity? / Who gets to tell the story? / Can you co-create the pathWay with the starts, the trees, the walkers / Ultreia! / #STSCambridgeNetwork #SCaN what a luxury! @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social
- Reposted by Helene ScottExcited to see more #PhilSci scholars employing diverse methodologies in their work. To that end, in our paper we used qualitative data analysis to understand the role of surprise in science. #aestheticsofscience #surprise #qualitativemethods link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by Helene ScottIt’s fascinating to witness what theatre methods in the philosophy of science can do to improve scientists’ lives 🥼👨🔬👩🔬and work 🧪🧬🔬. These two👇🏼are doing incredible work, and we’ll be having them soon at @ifmcambridge.bsky.social Buns Talk. How lucky are we!
- Last two Saturdays @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social and I worked with a group of creative postdocs from the PDN Dpt to devise an outreach performance for the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social. This Sat (22d), we will share our work with you! Come to PDN Dpt at 1 pm. CU there! (registration link below)
- 🙌 network for qualitative methods in philosophy! Maybe something for @eraldo.bsky.social @karllandstrom.bsky.social @drjastockdale.bsky.social - and probably several others ✨
- Were you interested in this work on Normative Philosophy and Qualitative Methods but couldnt make it to Durham? Already doing this kind of project elsewhere? Sign up for our research network at groups.google.com/g/qualitativ... Please share widely! #philosophy #qualitative #politics #pragmatism
- I’m still struggling to get my arms down from these news! I can’t imagine a better place for the research and the teaching I love to do - surrounded by inspiring and kind colleagues 🙌🥳 If you need me, I’ll be in the clouds somewhere for the next little while ⛅️
- We are excited to announce the appointment of our new Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society, Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social, who will join STS from 1st September 2025.
- Went north to discuss *qualitative methods* in philosophy with @sarahwieten.bsky.social , @borka86.bsky.social and a handful of other exciting speakers and participants. The light here is amazing ✨ #philsci #hps #philsky www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
- Prepped and ready to go, armed with overhead projectors and courageous scientists 🧡😎 #philsci #sts @cambridgefestival.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social
- Reposted by Helene ScottLast two Saturdays @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social and I worked with a group of creative postdocs from the PDN Dpt to devise an outreach performance for the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social. This Sat (22d), we will share our work with you! Come to PDN Dpt at 1 pm. CU there! (registration link below)
- A group of scientists put their faith in two philosophers of science and ventured to reflect on *time* and *trust*, and science as a practice done by living people. Come experience what we found together - this Saturday 1pm at Downing Site, Cambridge. #philsci #hps
- (1) Molecules perform functions to support life. Scientists perform functions to study the molecules. But who are these scientists? What is it to be the one? Come to learn with us at the PDN this Sat (22d) through the exciting performance and discussion! @cambridgefestival.bsky.social
- I can highly recommend submitting with @edouardmachery.bsky.social as an editor - exceptionally attentive and thorough reading, which made the piece a lot better. Thank you for takning it on! 🙏
- I was contemplating how to share this but the internet moves fast (and nothing slips past @miikeessttuuart.bsky.social 🙏) This builds on so many conversations with wonderfully open-minded and curious people on our discipline and I hope it will initiate many more🧡 #philsky #philsci
- Such a good overview of something that desperately needed overviewing! @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
- It’s Monday and the clouds are back, but I’m still floating from this weekend!☀️ Friday @milenaivanova.bsky.social took me to @newnhamcollege.bsky.social international Women’s day celebration 💪 with three wise women speaking on forms of resistance and the importance of equality and mutual respect.
- Saturday @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social and I had a #CultureLab workshop with scientists, to prepare the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social performance: *Living Science*. We discussed trust and time - in science and in life - whistled, got comfortable with oddity, made up silly stories, and laughed a lot.
- And Sunday, I ran the Cambridge half marathon in bright sun and 17 degrees, with amazing support from my housemates 🧡🙌☀️
- Went to Göteborg to ask Margareta Hallberg about Hesse. Over a period of 10+ years (2000-) she interviewed Hesse about her life. Our conversation inevitably fell, with gloom, on the personal and academic freedom Hesse associated with her visits to US🥺 #philsci #hps link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Student: are you Danish? Me: yes? Student: ah! I have a Danish friend, and she dresses just like you. 😂 can’t run away from my cultural heritage.
- Reposted by Helene ScottCall for Applications: Editor-in-Chief, European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Editorship begins 1 September 2025 (negotiable) & renewable term of 4 years. Submit applications to the secretary of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social M. Amine Mansour at epsa@philsci.eu. Deadline is 15 May 2025. #philsci
- Going through the @whipplemuseum.bsky.social collection of Mary Hesse papers, I found this small clip out with an update from 1962. The ambiguous tone of it has me wondering whether it was written in contempt or celebration, by whom and for what. #hps
- Also, you may think that sending funny memes to your friends is an internet thing… but here is a cutout sent to Hesse from a friend, when they learnt she was getting an honorary degree at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social (accompanied by a more serious note of congratulations).
- Reposted by Helene ScottNot satisfied with ‘virtually controlling’ the Cambridge Review, Hesse went on to reign supreme as Chief Editor of the BJPS
- Going through the @whipplemuseum.bsky.social collection of Mary Hesse papers, I found this small clip out with an update from 1962. The ambiguous tone of it has me wondering whether it was written in contempt or celebration, by whom and for what. #hps
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- Monday = pragmatism day ☀️(even when it rains). This term, we’ve been reading about fruitfulness and heuristic appraisal. Today we tried to sort out the tangle of terms we’ve encountered so far… Brought to us by Damon Kuzin and @niallroe.bsky.social #philsci #pragmatismmondays
