🎉 We're excited to announce the SPAN Seminar Series: virtual introductions to concepts relevant to neuroscience & phil of neuroscience. Seminars are free for SPAN members & held virtually.
The first 2 seminars are on MRI methods. Register today! 🧠 philandneuro.wildapricot.org/seminar-Series
SO glad to see this in there! From what I've heard cut and cover can be WAY cheaper
Well, classic rock felt pretty old when I was a kid and my dad would listen to it in the car.
It hurts to say it, but this would be like being in 1997 and the oldies station playing a song from the late 1960s 😭
Reminder: the deadline for contributed papers is coming up fast on 15 March!
I may be ignorant here, but I thought the CARE Court program didn’t involve incarcerating anyone. Am I wrong?
We probably also need the write up on why Rick Grush's emulation theory should be better cited in discussions of predictive processing, and how he was right to make spatial and temporal representation foundational to world models
Can’t wait to dive into this article and the replies. Both my kids have autism diagnoses, but one is extremely attuned to other people’s mental states while the other seems quite the opposite. Really want to see what the case is for describing the latter as something other than ToM deficits
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I have listened to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's soundtrack to The Social Network countless times. Nathan Micay clearly has too. His "There is No Tender 2.0" (for Industry Season 4) is an amazing interpolation of two of my favorites: "Intriguing Possibilities" and "In Motion"
Google Scholar profile for Jason Wei. Highlighted research keyword for "game-changing research"
No matter how important/influential a researcher you are, listing "game-changing research" as an area of interest is ridiculous
Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company. Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health. Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.
Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.
Link below and anyone can sign:
Poster advertising symposia on Frances Egan’s book ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04). More info: https://tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and https://tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan
🔔✨Call for papers and symposia on Frances Egan’s (@francesegan.bsky.social) ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04) alongside Neural Mechanisms Online and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social)!
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Invited speaker lineup is out for SPP 2026! More information on the meeting here: www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
Submissions accepted until Jan 16! Come hang in Baltimore; conference is at Johns Hopkins from June 17-20, 2026!
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I doubt most of my students have privacy concerns about cloud storage. Seems inconsistent with their other choices about how they use tech. It’s more that I don’t find their generation especially tech savy. Eg too many not backing up files and losing them
It still baffles me when I have students who email me that they can't send me a document because it is on their computer left at home... 70% of teens have already had an AI companion but I somehow cloud storage hasn't reached universal adoption
🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the Philosophy & Neuroscience Collaborative Mentorship Program! 🧠
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/mentorship
(This is 1/2 announcements we will make over the next 1-2 weeks.)
📣From Mitchell Herschbach:
Revising Simulation Theory Beyond Recognition: A Reply to Yousefi Heris (2024)
I like McConnell’s.
I think it is for sure the best that’s sold in sizes larger than a pint.
And to be clear, the above wasn’t meant as a criticism—just genuinely curious if you’re committed to that claim. I worry it is mostly a debate about terminology
Did you get to pick the title? I don't see anything in the main text where you make the claim "The brain is not a machine", which is found in the title. I don't really care how we define the word "machine," but this issue has been coming up in discussions of enactivism and mechanistic phil sci
I have paper in progress laying out my own views on simulation theory and anti-localizationist accounts of brain function (which I presented on at the SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social l meeting in May). If anyone wants to see a draft, just let me know! /3
The central issue is fleshing out the notion of simulation in the simulation theory (ST) of mentalizing, and how well it deals with more complex accounts of how mental functions relate to neural structures. I argue that Yousefi Heris's approach abandons what distinguishes ST from theory theory. /2
Proud to say I have my first publication is quite a long time! It is a critical discussion of Ali Yousefi Heris's recent paper "Mental simulation: From neural resemblance to representation" (which builds on my 2012 Synthese article on mirroring and simulation). doi.org/10.1007/s106...
Please @metrolosangeles.bsky.social consider this plan for the K Line Northern Extension!
Check out this great article about SPAN2025 written by the Dana Foundation!
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Not sure how many rugby (unions) fans are out there, but I've always found rucks to be philosophically really interesting and possibly confused (esp. conditions under which they begin vs. end). I can't tell if this is something philosophers would actually care about...