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/

peer reviewers when you try to sneak in irony

Cover of new book.

Had to share this from twitter just because

My article "When Engrams Become Exograms: Organic Data Memory and Biological Memory Extension" is now available open access from Review of Philosophy and Psychology. This is part of a special issue on "Memory and Technology: 4E Perspectives"

🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️ @philsci-archive.bsky.social

My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.

Live NOW Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow) - A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction

Our first keynote of ISPSM 2025 kicks off with Sabrina Coninx @sconinxphil.bsky.social media who is speaking about disruptive technologies and human niche construction! 📡

Live N O W Keynote Talk: Sabrina Coninx (UVA) - Distruptive Technology and Human Niche Construction

#PhiMiSci published a new standalone article: In “What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away”, Darius Parvizi-Wayne argues that both new and old attempts to solve the frame problem on the basis of the active inference framework are explanatorily inadequate.

My paper on Predictive Processing and structure function mapping is finally officially out on Biology & Philosophy. Readcube here, rdcu.be/eMiw7 & abstract in the comments #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Join us for another year celebrating ISPSM! Registration still open - and still free to all.

we need a way to fine and jail perpetrators of slopaganda

Someone updated this meme.

Linker & Jacobs should both know better. It is not reasonable to demand, as a condition of opposing Trump's 'compact', that liberals admit - what clearly isn't true - that the Biden administration's transgender policies were a pretextual, bad faith effort to exclude conservatives from employment.

HELLO THERE, from this white-browed coucal in #Serengeti. And happy #flyday. #birds #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife #nikon

Latest papers: Marco Facchin shows how Toon’s fictionalism entails a specific form of the extended mind thesis doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky. #philpsy

In a new paper, Keith Allen and colleagues show that people vacillate between at least two views of seeing: a) we see things themselves, and b) we see things indirectly via mental images and inference. Both are "common sense." Read the whole paper here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.” Same shit different era.

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... A short thread [1/5]👇

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis. Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

New paper on Predictive Processing is forthcoming in Biology & Philosophy. The basic gist of the paper is: Predictive processing, in its most ambitiously unificatory form, entails equipotentialism. Preprint and full abstract below #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Questa è, o era, l'ambulanza che un nostro caro amico e volontario di Bologna ha portato in Ucraina. Centrata da un drone ieri pomeriggio, i volontari stanno tutti bene, ma urge il bisogno di trovare un'altra ambulanza. Non ho più parole per descrivere questo infinito terrore.

The enemies of freedom

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Miller is a nazi.

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

Conversely, there are no prominent R's who have the sobriety and integrity to point out that high-level elected officials - like the President and the VP - have a special duty not to spew inflammatory lies. There are no D's inflaming violence & no R's who will call out their side for doing so.

All this, whilst she remains entirely silent on the real war on science both ideological (insert classic outraged "are we really financing THAT" popular article here) and practical (let's get rid of these unproductive funds/positions)

In fact, criticising specific scientific work IS scientific work! That's how science works!

Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published link.springer.com/collections/...

Don't miss the ISPSM 2025 - register here #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy

✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨ Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa... #philmind #philsci #philsky

😊 So proud this is out now: "Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social! www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

Here is a summary of our contribution to www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti... by @marielgoddu.bsky.social #cogsky #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience 🧠🧪

Racism all the time.

'Sometimes'

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

You know, these are rights we have. Full stop. You can violate them, hell you can have them unacknowledged by the law or the powers that be, but these are rights we have all the same. That’s what makes them inalienable. Amendments codify and enshrine, they don’t create. These are our rights

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

This came to me in a vision

I will be participating in four protests this weekend to resist the ongoing destruction of science, healthcare, and democracy in this country. Please consider joining one of the many labor day rallies, you can find many of them here www.mobilize.us/mayday/ A few further thoughts in this thread...

We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com #EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss