How can we rigorously investigate the common-sense capabilities of agentic AI systems? How can we build better models of non-human animal cognition? (Re-)introducing the Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research!

Hey! This is my first post on Bluesky. Researchers be interested in my new paper 'Agnosticism About Artificial Consciousness'. Some say that AI could become conscious. Others say it couldn't. I say we don't know then deal with the moral mess this leaves us in! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13145 Abstract below

A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨ Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!

A lovely review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s latest book, “Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World,” by Alan C. Love in Springer Nature. https://buff.ly/4fWqFbH #PhilSci

Mona-Marie Wandrey & me on the need to take a precautionary approach towards patients in a so-called "vegetative state" (and the term is part of the problem!). theconversation.com/its-hard-to-...

Welcome new followers!! We're a podcast about minds—human, animal, artificial. We explore the diversity of thinking/sensing/learning from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Recent topics: the "wood wide web," machine culture, genetics of IQ, electroreception, and more! disi.org/manyminds/

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 PAMBA Prize essay contest in the philosophy of animal minds for early-career researchers. The winning paper will be published in Biology & Philosophy and presented as a keynote at the meeting in Santa Barbara. For details: www.the-pamba.com/prize

Looking forward to reading @cameronbuckner.bsky.social's SEP article about whether subordinate chimpanzees or dominant chimpanzees have better eye-lasers plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...

how this bird real?

First feeds are up! Find them on this profile. I’m indexing all posts containing a DOI, and all profiles containing an ORCID. #atproto #bluesky #doi #orcid

Excited to be co-organizing this workshop with Mariel Goddu (Stanford) and colleagues at the MPI EVA! Join us in Leipzig, Dec 17-18th -> Free registration: bit.ly/intuitive-ph... #intuitivephysics #cognition #development #comparativepsychology #Leipzig

I'm chairing this wonderful panel at the Department of HPS in Cambridge on the 9th of December, open to all (though there is a maximum room capacity of 60 people...). Should make for a very fun discussion on science and art!

"These conversations are the focus of fierce debate, not because scientists lack authority, but because these are the intellectual battles worth fighting" Today's guest is one of our favourite HPS scholars @emilam.bsky.social talking about how colloquial science matters #hps #histSTM #philsci 🧪

Exciting! I'll be in Santa Barbara for the 2nd PAMBA meeting. How about you? @ldanon.bsky.social @richardmoore.bsky.social @susanamonso.com @wileyprof.bsky.social @lgruen.bsky.social

Animals—from bees to butterflies, porcupines to primates—medicate themselves. They seek out bitter plants, they treat wounds, they amputate limbs, they eat clay. How do they know what they know? Our latest episode—a chat with @jaapderoode.bsky.social & M. Huffman! Listen: disi.org/animal-heal-...

My recent book, 'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @princetonupress.bsky.social Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

Very excited that BSHS is coming to Cambridge this summer! Cambridge is a lovely, walkable city - perfect for exploring between sessions.

Have another cube of cheese and keep going @cameronbuckner.bsky.social please.

Our 1st Book Launch Ep with @msuarez.bsky.social on Modelling, Inference & Representation "Models are about enabling scientists to draw inferences about their target, to learn something new. But those inferences can be many & varied & valid to many different standards" #philsci #histsci #sts 🧪

What can philosophers of science bring to interdisciplinary teams? "By virtue of being outside the community, philosophers often make observations that others don't because it is the water they swim in." From S1 E3 with Alan Love. #PhilSci thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/1303...