📖 NEW PUBLICATION: The mind-brain is a computer, but what is (neural) computation? By @coreymaley.net & Oron Shagrir Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠 Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

🥳 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥

HOT DEBATE 🔥 On November 13th @sarahrobins.bsky.social will be moderating a debate at the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society's Annual Meeting. TOPIC: Are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? 🤔

🔥 New Publication: @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social has a book chapter titled "Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence" forthcoming in 'Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations' Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE

This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag: Javier Gomez-Lavin will be presenting a paper titled 'Trust the Process: Why AI Ecology, Not Scaling Laws, Offers a Guide to Machine Intelligence.' 🤖

This week, the Center for Paralysis Research will be hosting @sarahrobins.bsky.social on November 12 for their Fall 2025 Seminar for Neurotrauma and Diseases 🧠

This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:

Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday

It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!

The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:

This week in Neuroscience at Purdue:

🧠 Next week in the Department of Psychological Sciences:

Our website is now live! 🥳 Visit us online to find CAIC events, info about Purdue's new cognitive science major, and to see what we're up to! caic.centers.purdue.edu

🚨 New publication out now in Philosophy of Science 🚨 In his new article, Eamon Deude argues that we can acquire a priori knowledge from LLMs and DNNs even though they are entirely opaque to us. 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@evanwestra.bsky.social is heading to Princeton to discuss a paper titled 'Desire without Metarepresentation' at the Perspectives on Perspectives Workshop 🥳

This Saturday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk during @ispsm.bsky.social's annual conference. The talk is part of a symposium on realism in neuroscience. Check out the ISPSM profile for a link to watch online 🧠

Check out what's happening next week in the Department of Psychological Sciences:

Highlights from @okaydaniellle.bsky.social talk on the black box problem in AI and its applicability to cognitive science 🧠

@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social will be visiting the Kansas State Wildcats for a colloquium talk this Thursday titled "Reflective equilibrium as a method of inquiry in technology ethics" 🤖 🧐

This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠

This Thursday, @dryan149.bsky.social will be discussing his new book Somebody Should Do Something at the Seminary Co-op! Details here: www.semcoop.com/event/daniel...

Highlights from this morning's brown bag with Taylor Davis!

October 10th, philosophy grad student Eric Servatius will be presenting a paper titled 'Signaling contempt: Immigration, social identity, and public contempt expressions' at The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum conference. Eric's paper was also chosen as the best graduate paper for 2025! 🥳

“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

The next CAIC Brown Bag Series features Taylor Davis who will be discussing and presenting a proposal for a new project titled 'Norms in the Scientific Image' 🧬🦠🧫

New Publication! Purdue grad student, Nesim Aslantatar's paper titled 'A new problem of evil?' is out now in Religious Studies. 🤖 Find the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Philosophy grad student, @gibbonitathought.bsky.social has a new publication out now in Philosophical Psychology! 🦍 👶Check out the abstract and then read the whole paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Highlights from Samantha Ooley's talk: Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyian Model 🎲

Purdue grad student Samantha Ooley will be workshopping a talk titled 'Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyan Model' at the CAIC workshop this Friday! ✏️🎲

This Tuesday David Thorstad from Vanderbilt University will be joining the mind and cognition research group to present their paper "Ecological rationality without externalism”. Read the abstract below!

Purdue is doing something about books! Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, & Dan Kelly combine compelling stories with science to explore how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive the big structural change needed to tackle systemic issues. 📖 🥳 -Cristina Farmus, VP of Purdue

Happening tomorrow in the philosophy department!

This Friday Kristian Gonzalez Barman (University of Ghent) and Stuart Glennan (Butler University) will join the Mind & Cognition Research Group in the philosophy department to present their work 'The New Science of Artificial Intelligence' 🤖 Read the abstract below:

@sarahrobins.bsky.social and Kathryn Maxson Jones are heading to the gulf for DSPN ☀️🌴 Sarah will be talking about deciding & remembering and Kathryn will be talking about the giant squid axon as the history of neuroscience keynote! 🦑

New Publication! Maria Waggoner's paper 'Moral illusions' is forthcoming in @journalphp.bsky.social 🥳 Maria argues that we should rethink our conception of the ideal virtuous person and suggests alternative moral resources which a virtuous person could use to navigate cases of moral illusions. 📄👇

New Publication! @evanwestra.bsky.social's paper 'Belief in Social Cognition' is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief 🥳 Evan argues that belief plays a modest role, rather than a central role, in everyday social cognition. Abstract here: philpapers.org/rec/WESBIS

Standing room only at the fascinating morning workshop! 🐜🐜🐜

New publication from @sarahrobins.bsky.social on memory traces! Her paper is featured in the newly published book 'Space, Time, & Memory' which includes contributions from a diverse and interdisciplinary range of authors across Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy 🥳 Link below!

Thanks so much to Mark Moffett for giving two talks in one day! One thing is for sure: we now know A LOT about ants 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

Why AI needs Cog Sci 🤝 (including philosophers!): "The cognitive sciences...teach us that intelligence is about more than mere statistical mimicry." 👀 Check out Gary Marcus's insightful and timely new think piece discussing the relation between CS and AI. 🧠 🎂 🤖 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

✏️ 2 publications out in the current issue of Mind & Language 📄 Both engage the concept of 'medium independence.' @okaydaniellle.bsky.social argues that different concepts are being thrown around & @coreymaley.net argues we should get right of MI altogether: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680017...

@sarahrobins.bsky.social will be heading to The University of Mississippi for a philosophy forum titled 'Philosophy Meets the Life Sciences' on September 5th! She'll be presenting some of her recent work on memory during her talk titled "Memory Traces & Engrams, Minds & Brains" 🧠

A written interview with the Sociology Group www.sociologygroup.com/interview-wi... @dryan149.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

Check out more about in on our book webpage! sites.google.com/view/somebod...

🚨 New Book Alert 🚨 @dryan149.bsky.social's new book 'Somebody Should Do Something' is available for preorder. Dr. Kelly and his co-authors show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think.

Mark Moffett from the Smithsonian will be stopping by the Mind & Cognition Research group during his visit to Purdue on September 5th. We're looking forward to welcoming him to the philosophy department!