A person’s head with a lightbulb and machine cog
Latest papers: Rebecca Dreier argues that episodic memory could have evolved for remembering, simulating the future and communication, despite the prima facile tensions between these three functions in this open access article #philsky #philpsy doi.org/10.1080/0951...
What are the advantages of episodic memory? Today at The Memory Palace, Julian Bacharach (Trinity College Dublin) shares his thoughts about the power of episodic memroy with respect to our beliefs, understanding, and communication with others.
#philsky #philscisky
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What are we explaining, and is it what we are trying to explain?
(Available open access)
Texas A&M has suffered a great loss: the resignation of Dr. Martin Peterson.
First Plato, now Dr. Peterson!
Out the Door at TAMU....
É sim!
Estou num grupo de pesquisa sobre emoções formados por não-brasileiros. Uma parte do grupo está estudando palavras específicas para determinadas línguas que representam emoções muito específicas. Uma delas era "desbunde" kkkk vou mostrar esse post como exemplo.
Patricia Churchland's advice to @felipedebrigard.bsky.social
www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com#/felipe-de-b...
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
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Sometimes we try to explain one thing but end up explaining something else. In this paper, I address when this is a problem, which I call the “Problem of Explaining Shifting Targets” (PEST).
#philsci #cogsky
(Available open access)
Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!
Just realized analytic philosophy is not actually hard to define. It’s basically a specific set of dry geeky lore: fake barns, brains in vats, cleverly disguised zebras, swampmen, blockheads, a scientist who never saw red, etc. and then we write fanfic.
🌀 Geneva Linguistics & Metaphysics of Time Workshop
An exciting event bringing together leading specialists at the intersection of linguistics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of time.
⌛ 13-14 March 2026
Organizers: Fabrice Correia & Giovanni Merlo
More details: goo.su/zgagZp9
Header and abstract page of an original research article in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2026, volume 48, article 12) titled "Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms," authored by Guido I. Prieto and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. Abstract In recent years, discussions on the epistemology of model organism-based research have emerged in the philosophy of science. A key topic of discussion is how the epistemic insights gained from model organisms differ from those gained through other experimental organisms used in laboratory and field research. Here, we argue that model organisms are epistemically special due to their nature as ontogenetically changeable, standardized, and evolved material model carriers. These characteristics afford six important kinds of modeling versatility that biologists marshal in their investigations: (i) synchronic target versatility; (ii) synchronic scope versatility; (iii) diachronic target versatility; (iv) diachronic scope versatility; (v) manipulation versatility; and (vi) discovery versatility. In presenting these dimensions of modeling versatility, we also clarify key notions such as ‘representational target,’ ‘representational scope,’ and ‘representational power’ as these apply to modeling practices that involve model organisms.
It has been argued that what sets model organisms apart from other experimental 🐋🌱 is their high representational power. In our latest 📃, we argue otherwise: the hallmark of MOs lies in the dimensions of modeling versatility they afford to scientists 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPS
📣 Call for submissions: Singer Prize 2026
Submit your unpublished essay (< 10 000 words), based
on original research into any aspect of #HistSTM!
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an old post from the former bird site. perhaps an even bigger self own than it was 4 years ago
God put Wittgensteinians on this earth to show us that the reason Marxists are so rude isn't the revolutionary stakes but that some people just are like that
Pq ele não vem pra cá? Kkkk
Postando pro Felipe que ainda se nega a voltar pra isso aqui.
Tulving, 1983 (via @zecamillo.bsky.social)
Muito interessante!
How is current genomics impacted by social, political, and ethical assumptions?
@yashaddad.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of presenting this issue in our newest work (link below)
#popgen #STS #STEM #philsky #HPbio
As a final reminder, the deadline for commentary proposals for our BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is next Tuesday, February 3. For details, follow the link. Please share if you can
@phaueis.bsky.social
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
Ruhr University Bochum (and Online) 18–20 Feb 2026
🔗 Register here: forms.gle/e4mW9MT3o2q8...
#philsky #philsci #cogsky #neuroskyence
Thumbnail do video com arte baseada em imagem do filme O Agente Secreto. Frame de Wagner Moura no filme "O Agente Secreto". O ator está de camisa branca num "orelhão" com o telefone no ouvido. Do lado direito um lettering em letras grandes diz: "Custou R$27 milhões". Uma seta vermelha liga o texto ao ator.
⚠️ VIDEO NOVO ⚠️
Quanto custa um filme?
🎥: youtu.be/h63tzk-sIEw
Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.
James Openshaw has been awarded an MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant! The project, 'Referential (dis)continuities in imagination and memory', will run for 3 years from March 2026 to Feb 2029.
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Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
Viva a cultura brasileira! 🇧🇷
A person thinking. They have clouds around their head
Latest papers: José Carlos Camillo analyses recent empirical findings about memory traces and argues that although many of them favour Causalism and seem inconsistent with Simulationism, memory traces also provide data that are inconsistent with Causalism doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
