{"id":9215,"date":"2023-03-28T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:15:00","slug":"graduate-student-federica-bocchi-publishes-piece-in-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/2023\/03\/28\/graduate-student-federica-bocchi-publishes-piece-in-extinct\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Federica Bocchi Publishes Piece in &#8220;Extinct&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philosophy Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/profile\/federica-bocchi\/\">Federica Bocchi<\/a> on her article, titled <span>\u201c<\/span><strong>Are We In a Biodiversity Crisis? Paleocurves, Measurements, and Problematic Inferences<\/strong>\u201d, which was published earlier this month in <em>Extinct: the<\/em> <em>Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extinctblog.org\/extinct\/2023\/3\/5\/biodiversitycrisis\">Click here for a link to the article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federica writes the following overview of her argument:<\/p>\n<h2><span>\u201c<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>[&#8230;] <span>I argue that comparative evaluations of current and past biodiversity are difficult to justify because measurements of current biodiversity and \u201cpaleodiversity\u201d are incommensurable. Two things are\u00a0<\/span>incommensurable<span>\u00a0if they have no common measure or otherwise cannot be meaningfully compared. What I suggest is that measures of biodiversity and paleodiversity are incommensurable in this sense. This leads me to conclude that talk of a \u201cbiodiversity crisis,\u201d if predicated upon such a comparison alone, needs better arguments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Congratulations on your most recent publication, Federica!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philosophy Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Federica Bocchi on her article, titled \u201cAre We In a Biodiversity Crisis? Paleocurves, Measurements, and Problematic Inferences\u201d, which was published earlier this month in Extinct: the Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog. Click here for a link to the article. Federica writes the following overview of her argument: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,10,28,12,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9218,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}