Jan Baedke, The Organism | BJPS Review of Books Matthew Sims reviews The Organism, by Jan Baedke

ICYMI: Matthew Sims reviews Jan Baedke’s The Organism

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The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Registration is open until April 23rd: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49983/

Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

There's also a public event (presentations + panel, Friday 24 April @3:30-5pm) where you can come get a taste of what it looks like to study these topics from the perspectives of comparative, computational, & developmental psychology, vision science, & philosophy:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50692/

Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) Nicola Clayton (University of Cambridge) Jan Engelmann (University of California, Berkeley) Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford University) Jonathan Kominsky (Central European University, Vienna) Sven Ohl (Humboldt University of Berlin) Tomer Ullman (Harvard University) Christoph Völter (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Ilker Yildirim (Yale University)

The workshop is co-organized by me & @martahalina.bsky.social, and features this ⬇️ truly stunning lineup:

(including @lucycheke.bsky.social @janengelmann.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @jfkominsky.bsky.social @tomerullman.bsky.social @christophvoelter.bsky.social !)

The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25)

We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics!

If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️

@segundo-ortin.bsky.social is running a conference ‘Embodied Cognition and Comparative Psychology’ in early May at the University of Murcia.

Find out more and register: embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site

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One of the wildest things I learned about planarian flatworms: you can isolate their pharynx (throat) and it will autonomously engage in feeding behavior.
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The ISPSM is happy to announce a double book symposium on: Kate Nave's A Drive to Survive & Jakob Hohwy's The Self-Evidencing Agent
May 12, H 10:00 CEST
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Philosophers of Many Minds

'Philosophers of Many Minds': A selection of our interviews with philosophers!! 🎙️🎙️

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Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

Philosophy of Biology - Closer To Truth Philosophy of Biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what…video Why Philosophy of B...

I've really enjoyed this series on Philosophy of Biology from @closertotruth.bsky.social: closertotruth.com/project/phil...
Videos are 25min each, consist mainly of interviews with experts, and cover topics ranging from units of selection to biological information to evolution of cognition

Spring Term 2026 (Mar 30-Jun 10)
-Paper: 'The Participatory Perspective'
-Workshop: 'The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals'
-Philosophy of Language
-Metalogic
-3D Printing a Human Being: Weeks 28-38

:) stay tuned!

Some great signs

#nokings #oakland

"persons and bodies"

Thank you for leading me to this:
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(Philosophy needs WAY more cartoons!)

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Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!

Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!

More info: disi.org

Photo with speaker and slide at the MBB Symposium

Discussion slide at the MBB Symposium

Beautiful study and results by @marieloescher.bsky.social on the behavioral relevance of the gastric (and cardiac and respiratory) rhythm.

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#MindBrainBody #MBB2026

Reality is not a controlled hallucination <p><em>The idea that 'reality is a controlled hallucination' has been recently popularised by figures such as philosopher Anil Seth. But this claim, which purports to be hard, down-to-earth science, i...

"Reality Is Not a Controlled Hallucination" by yours truly iai.tv/articles/rea...

Moral Mysteries | The Point Magazine “It is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?” wrote Iris Murdoch in her slim work of moral philosophy, The Sovereignty of Good.

“[O]nce I was relieved of the burden of having to figure out the answer to the other, I could more clearly see and appreciate the complex mystery of whoever stood before me”

Parker Henry’s beautifully personal review of Hopwood’s The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch
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Mothers as Science Storytellers Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Mothers as Science Storytellers

Check out the newest Element in Public Engagement with Science: Mothers as Science Storytellers, by Emma Frances Bloomfield.

Full text free to download until March 12.
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Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

"The problem is not simply that cross-species translation is difficult; it is that the field has largely accepted this difficulty rather than treating it as a central scientific challenge. Neuroscience has also struggled to confront the fact that different species often tell different stories."

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

1. This thread is totally lovely and scientists are some of our best people

2. Reading this really validated my life choices because a good day in the "philosophy lab" is me hyperfocused in my office obsessively writing, forgetting I have a spatiotemporal location & a body and speaking to no one

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Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More... book by Madhur Jaffrey Buy a cheap copy of Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More... book by Madhur Jaffrey. Bestselling author Madhur Jaffrey's long-awaited compendium of her favorite vegetarian recipes from around the wo...

starting to explore what it's like to add more vegetarian dishes to your diet.

Here's a great cookbook that costs <$10 used and has over 650 vegetarian recipes-
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Promoting the reasons why eating vegetarian is personally beneficial –– and also that vegetarian food TASTES GOOD! –– is crucial for the movement.

You don't have to "become" a vegetarian to help yourself and the planet. You can start reaping benefits simply by

"eat" vegetarian, one *IS A* vegetarian. People often adopt a moral high-ground position, proselytizing about how evil and unethical it is to eat animals, and demonizing people who do.

I believe it's ethically wrong to eat animals. That's the major reason why I *personally* choose not to. But it's