💙📚 'Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences,' an #OpenAccess book, is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work. bit.ly/4f2gkNl#OpenAccess#PhilSci 🗃️

The Brain is a Semantic Engine youtu.be/0dK009atOsM - a recent, 25-minute talk (with Henry Potter) at the Beyond Neurocomputationalism workshop

'The Herald reported in April that PA Consulting had been contracted to manage an "academic size and shape" exercise at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS).' 1/2

A/C discourse, which I will otherwise be avoiding please and thank you, has reminded me of this passage from Norman Malcolm’s memoir of Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein visited Malcom in Ithaca, NY, in the Summer of 1949 (his only visit to the US).

Did the evolution of consciousness begin with smell? I have a piece arguing it might well have done (in response to @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's recent vision-centric picture). Free to read here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZhrI...

If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ

Thrilled to announce the keynote lineup for #GSO2026 ! 🚀 Join us in Binghamton this October to explore how complex systems process information to become open-ended. Don't miss the chance to present alongside pioneers, submit by July 1st! Details: www.guided-self.org/gso-2026.html 🧵👇

The Philosophy department at Exeter is exceptional. It has both a concentration of world leading researchers in the philosophy of the biological and cognitive sciences, and a unique departmental profile in the UK. It would be a catastrophic loss to the UK philosophy scene.

It's rare that a newspaper says this out loud.

i laughed so much at this goddammit

Would you like to attend any of these events? Here are three posters containing relevant information for each event, such as websites and event dates. There is still time to submit contributions to some of them, so don't miss this opportunity to attend #CCS2026! See you there.😻

This is an excellent perspective, opens new doors to study consciousness empirically.

20,000 on Eurosky and growing! Switch to @eurosky.social, try out @mu.social — the future of social is coming and we're barely getting started.

I suspect it's not widely known that (or how much) genetic variation that would otherwise be deleterious is "hidden" by buffering. Much of that is accomplished by a protein called Hsp90. I've written a feature for Nature about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ted Chiang confirmed fictionalist about AI speech www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530 An updated version of my "Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings" is available: https://zenodo.org/records/20647108 It includes the revisions that were requested during peer-review. Wimsatt is the most important philosopher of science […]

You can still submit an abstract for Models of Consciousness 7 #MoC7 (12-16 October 2026) 👇

Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.

Having long been confused about what the Sorbonne actually is I finally understand that it is Paris' equivalent of Edinburgh's 2/3 "original and only" Mosque Kitchens...

🔄 Boosted: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/116696560930519478 We Build On Hope Keynote by @ robinberjon ( https://lemmy.ml/u/robinberjon ) # strategy ( https://social.edu.nl/tags/strategy ) # politicalgoals ( https://social.edu.nl/tags/politicalgoals ) # stateintervention ( https://social.edu.n...

Workshop: Alternative Historical Paths for the Biological Sciences 11 July 2026, Leeds The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds will be hosting a workshop on “Alternative Historical Paths for the Biological Sciences” on 11 July 2026. Funding for travel grants of…

New post from me: on last week's fantastic conference on Rewilding The Web. This was the authentic grassroots conference, not Mozilla's plagiarised corporate cosplay version. heatherburns.tech/2026/06/02/r...

Nabokov, 1947, sounding like a critic of predictive AI: ‘Recurrent combinations are perceptible as such only when they cannot affect us any more… To map our tomorrows with the help of data supplied by our yesterdays means ignoring the basic element of the future which is its complete non-existence’

New preprint on tests for consciousness... philpapers.org/archive/KLET... Feedback very welcome!

Want to know what 'enactivism' is? Consider reading my new paper, 'What is Enactivism?', open access in Adaptive Behavior! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Short version: It's what Varela, Thompson & Rosch said it was in 'The Embodied Mind' ages ago. Slightly longer version... 1/

Really looking forward to this meeting, "Beyond Neuro-computationalism" in Antwerp this week! 😀 www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... cc @marcofacchin.bsky.social

Many thanks to @anil.recoil.org for taking copious notes at the excellent Rewilding The Web workshop that @kathrynnave.eurosky.social & @philosodave.bsky.social put together last week. Many brilliant presentations and conversations with excellent people! anil.recoil.org/notes/rewild...

In addition to being a fantastic speaker, Anil is also an incredible notetaker and wrote this beautiful recap of our workshop on Rewilding the Web last week.

New paper out. In open access! #Kant #Philsky #Philosophy verifiche.padovauniversitypress.it/2025/2/4

Applications are now open for our 2026 CIFAR Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Winter School, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪. Attendance is competitive & fully funded thx to generous support from @templetonworld.bsky.social. Apply by June 10: cifar.ca/next-generat...

This, from Lorna Finlayson, expresses my view on universities better than I ever have myself. The process is farther along in Britain than elsewhere, but something of this trend is visible in too many places. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

The very slightly different way I would put this, building on work with Hahrie Han is that AI is hitting our capacities for _collective agency_ by replacing our tools for collaborating with other humans to figure stuff out with mediated relations to frozen monuments of accumulated cultural knowledge

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

How would #psychology look through the lens of @michelamassimi.bsky.social's Perspectival Realism? In her new paper, Suilin Lavelle defends the pursuit of Majority World psychological frameworks and experiments beyond WEIRD biases 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philsky #psysky #cogsci

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? Very cool.

Summer coming up and pondering what books to read? Interested in ocean, local communities, epistemic injustices, and ongoing debates around the law of the sea? Our Ways of World Knowing is now available with 30% discount using promotion code AUFLY30

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

Gaaaaaaah. I was all set up to head along to at least some of this event in Edinburgh this week, but work has gone even mentaller than usual and now I cannot. But if you are knocking about Edinburgh this Thursday and Friday, you should totally consider going along.

Appreciated my opportunity to contribute to the Eggshell Therapy Podcast with Imi Lo -- this is a good introduction to my philosophical work on grief eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog...

A first co-authored piece with the brilliant @hamishlinehan.bsky.social: Natural Born Historians open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Sneak peek of what I think will be an amazing workshop on tests for consciousness 😊, made possible by @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @aidaelamrani.bsky.social! You're cordially invited to join us! 𝗖-𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 June 8 – 10, 2026 Online (Zoom) www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

Stop making people move for contract positions that offer less than 2 years of job security and that pay less than 60K/year. It is disruptive to people’s lives, relationships, and financial stability.

Tomorrow!

Multinucleate cells challenge deeply-held assumptions about complexity, ecological success and evolution. Postdoc extraordinaire and gifted writer @mrosjac.bsky.social tackles this subject with aplomb - tell us what you think! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

One of those moments where that money could have gone to something to save many more whales instead of prolonging this poor creatures suffering

It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

This was a great event! Thanks to @ispsm.bsky.social for organizing,@hohwy.bsky.social for being such a charitable and insightful co-participant, and the attendees for lots of engaging Qs Both books are free from @mitpress.bsky.social: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Get yourself some good books! (Especially “Free Agents” which I hear is fab… 😉)

It was a tremendous honor to speak with the one and only Karl Friston – not about the Free Energy Principle, but for a change about the history of SPM. Did you know the very first version of SPM was programmed in Excel? That and much more here 👇👇 stimulatingbrains.org/79-karl-fris...