Consciousness Club resumes this week - we are delighted to be hosting @ronyhirsch.bsky.social to speak on "The perceived role of consciousness in moral status attributions" Wed 29th April, 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For more information and how to join, see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Trending right now! Keith Frankish with The Emancipation of the Drone: a Dennettian thought experiment, open access here: www.tandfonline.com/... #philsky

Registrations are open for the Beyond neuro-computationalism workshop. Seats are extremely limited - so registration is really necessary Register here www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

New on the Archive: Molinari, Daniele (2026) Participation and Immersive Imagination in Thought Experiments. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29299/

#philsky #philpsy Happy to share my paper on the "prepresentation-hungry" challenge, and why this challenge does not rise from the cognitivists' own point of view. link.springer.com/article/10.1... You can read it for free here: rdcu.be/feEtI

Last day to submit your abstract :) #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The CFA is still open #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"The Brain, In Theory" is out today! A short excerpt in The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

🇱🇺Luxembourg has enshrined abortion rights in its constitution, the second country, after France, to do so.

The ISPSM is happy to announce a double book symposium on: Kate Nave's A Drive to Survive & Jakob Hohwy's The Self-Evidencing Agent May 12, H 10:00 CEST Subscription form Here: forms.gle/NGkFaVYHS7Lk... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The CFA is still open (until the 13th of April) :)

Soon :)

This is just so flatly immoral, so obviously unjustifiable. www.ft.com/content/83ab...

Still two weeks to submit your abstract for our Beyond Neurocomputationalism workshop (Antwerp 4-5 June). Keynote Speakers include Kate Nave, Romain Brette, Vicente Raja, Matteo Mossio, Mazviita Chirimuuta & Alicia Juarrero! Info below! #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

⚡️ Spain is sending five Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine.

My paper is finally out on Phil Studies. "Animating Scientific Understanding" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #philosophy #understanding

#PhiMiSci has published a new book symposium on Mazviita Chirimuuta’s „The Brain Abstracted“, edited by Philipp Haueis. It features a précis by the author, seven commentaries, and her replies. Readers may also be interested in a #BrainsBlog post on the symposium, forthcoming later this week.

Excited to announce that Prof. Alicia Juarrero just joined the fantastic line-up of Keynote speakers for the "Beyond Neuro-Computationalism" workshop. CFA here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Although I was not given funding to publish this OA, if anyone (or any one that you know) would like a pdf of the book, shoot me a message. I'd be more than happy to send it your way. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Since I forgot to post it, here's a paper I wrote on predictive processing, structure-function mappings in the brain, and why their relationship is more complicated than you might have thought #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I don't remeber sharing it, so...

The president is trying to steal the fall election - reread that sentence. it is all treated as normal or expected, not as a reason to be in the streets until he is gone. Many feel revulsion at Trump but there is also some form of acceptance or resignation. It’s so dangerous. What explains it?

🔔✨Call for papers and symposia on Frances Egan’s (@francesegan.bsky.social) ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04) alongside Neural Mechanisms Online and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social)! More info: tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan #philsky

New on the Archive: Maley, Corey (2026) Structural Representation is Analog Representation. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27929/

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

More press on our recent Behavioral and Brain Sciences article: #philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience @phaueis.bsky.social aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t...

This is going to be so much fun!! Apply and come hang out in Madrid!

I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky

The Nth reminder that "presrige" is at lwast in part a form of funding-agency-enforced mass hysteria

Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!

New on the Archive: Prieto, Guido I. and Fábregas-Tejeda, Alejandro (2025) Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27297/

This Millikan line goes (as they say) hard.

Millikan

I've had a thread of office whiteboard philosopher portraits going for a while on the other site. Figure I'll start a fresh one here. This is Susan Hurley.

Trump working for Putin again:k and asking Ukraine to capitulate to russia.

Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter 
⭐️ Work by Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt

I've crowdfunding a game with cards that look like this! Come take a look 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alf...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

So how can we best use museum collections for neuroanatomy research? 1. more skeletons in good quality 2. proper fixation of specimens 3. avoid long-term ethanol storage if possible. And for more information on bird brains, check out our new book: direct.mit.edu/books... #BOU2025 6/6

#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience @phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

meanwhile pigeons be like

she's doing her best

Gestapo

You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.

New on the Archive: Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2026) Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms. Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual. pp. 23-32. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27196/

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

New on the Archive: Meneganzin, Andra (2025) The Fate of Behavioral Modernity. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27162/