the Online Gathering of MPRG is happening right now (and continues tomorrow)!

🚨New Paper!🚨 Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't! We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As a reminder, the Moral Psychology Research Group online 2025 fall meeting starts today at 4pm EST on Zoom. Open to all! Details below (and note that the Zoom link has been updated). @amormino.bsky.social from the EMP Lab will be talking tomorrow at 11am EST. sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

The Moral Psychology Research Group (MPRG) online gathering starts today at 4pm EST and continues tomorrow -- join us! A quick note that the Zoom link for the talk series has been updated: cofc.zoom.us/j/85200645549 Full schedule and abstracts here: sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

Book excerpt published by the Association of MBAs today! Most case studies in our book were drawn from the US but here we assembled insights from Latin American feminism and the success of the "Green Tide" @mitpress.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social #booksky #feminism #GreenTide

Discover how greater gender parity and the growth of female leadership across Latin America created the conditions for a successful social movement, in this illuminating case study from Somebody Should Do Something www.amba-bga.com/insights/voi...

Join us for two fun days of moral psychology and philosophy! #MPRG2025

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? 🤔

Katja Crone (TU Dortmund) is at The Memory Palace today, talking about the special case of memories for patterns of personal experience. These generic memories play a significant role in our lives, and so should play a larger role in our study of memory, too. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

🔥 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.' 🤖

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

New post now up on THE FEEDBACK: Epistemic reduction of the concept of ‘decision’ by: Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) Read the post here: thefeedback.blog/2025/11/03/e...

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 🧠

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:

The Memory Palace takes a big step forward with our translation project today. Check out our El Palacio de la Memoria section, featuring the efforts of the MemoriEs project - and come back regularly (or subscribe) to see more that we’ve got lined up to debut in the weeks ahead! #philscisky #philsky

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Public Philosophy Post-doc! philjobs.org/job/show/30174

The Moral Psychology Research Group's Online Gathering has a complete schedule of speakers, including Joshua Greene, Meltem Yucel, Paul Bloom, and Linda Skitka! Nov 7th and 8th sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

Part 2 of our interview for Dr. Anotida Chikumbu's BOOK SERIES is out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13M... @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

"We have not successfully addressed the climate crisis, income inequality, or myriad other long-standing injustices. Why think we can come together now? And yet, we are." @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

🚨 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...

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

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 🧠

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

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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

Greetings to folks across the pond! Had a fun interview on Talk Radio Europe with Hannah Murray, and thanks again to DHC Student Fellow Tam Tran for producing the video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4K_... @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

The Moral Psychology Research Group will host an Online Gathering this fall November -- all are welcome! Speakers include Joshua Greene, Meltem Yucel, and Paul Bloom as inaugural recipient of the The Stephen P. Stich Award for Career Achievement in Moral Psychology sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

@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" 🤖 🧐

In this instalment of the series Great Art Explained, curator, gallerist and video essayist James Payne provides a rich and rewarding tour of ‘The School of Athens’ (1509-11) and reveals how Raphael turned to the past to capture the progress of his times

@madva.bsky.social making a crucial point about motivating voters at the Westport Library. Part of our Somebody Should Do Something tour. @mitpress.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social #bookshy

Very grateful to be interviewed for Dr. Anotida Chikumbu's BOOK SERIES! Here's the first segment, with more on the way! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky #socialchange www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WoW...

What a pleasure speaking with @saadiak.bsky.social about Somebody Should Do Something on the Immigrantly podcast with @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social #booksky

Thanks to Scott Jacobsen and @goodmenproject.bsky.social for chatting with us about our book! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social goodmenproject.com/featured-con...

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...

This Thursday!

Super fun *start* to Thursday evening at least, and huge thanks to Michael's and my moms for rallying so many of our Philly friends and family! @upenn.edu

Slackers aren’t a monolith, these films suggest, and their creed is more than just a hipster variant of laziness. It’s a cultivated anti-establishment stance, rooted in intellectual curiosity, political principle, and significant stamina. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

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

Friends in Chicago: alert! alert!