School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025 has started today with a talk by @phaueis.bsky.social!

The deadline is approaching! We wait for your applications till Monday, July 21st!

Had a great session on the relation between metabolism and cognition at BSPS Glasgow, organized by @davidcolaco.bsky.social . We presented joint work on using metabolism to constrain and generate cognitive models (1/2)

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As the semester days get hot, our Phil neuroscience readings are hot off the press: today we talked about Dan Burnston’s latest: epistemic reduction of ‚decision‘ to accumulate to bound models in neuroscience. We discussed which aspects of decision can or cannot be reduced by these models (1/2)

Serious question: why is theory development in neuroscience so damn hard?

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Another gem from our Phil Neuroscience seminar: Mazviita Chirimuuta on canonical computations and explanation in neuroscience: link.springer.com/article/10.1... We discussed what distinguishes mechanistic from minimal model explanations, how to identify neural details relevant to explanation (1/2)

🤝 "Philosophisches Diskutieren" 🧭 von Philipp Haueis (Hannover / Bielefeld) @phaueis.bsky.social 👉 jetzt auf lehrgut.org

Today I taught the paper on “memory transfer” by the great @davidcolaco.bsky.social in my class at @iphilluh.bsky.social . The was phil sci at its best: general conceptual work (what is a scientific phenomenon?) with a concrete historical case on interesting science, a normative angle 1/2

Tech companies manufacture demand for chatbots and image generation, and then that in turn manufactures demand for coal and gas. Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...

Budgetdefizite sind eindeutig unser größtes Problem.

This study is interesting. The discussion relating it to linguistic relativity is misleading, though, since that's not about how something is called, but whether a language has a term for a category to begin with. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Fantastic talks so far at the epistemic diversity, pluralism and progress workshop in Wuppertal. Here @oscarw.bsky.social is talking about pluralism about philosophical views of scientific progress.

This week I’m on conference tour: yesterday I gave a talk on exploratory modes of interdisciplinarity at GWP.2025 on Erlangen. On Thursday, I’ll speak on pluralism and conceptual progress at the epistemic diversity workshop in Wuppertal. #philsky #edusly

If you are planning on going to BSPS 2025, consider coming to the symposium that I am organizing on:"The Cognitive Importance of “Non-cognitive” Processes: Reconsidering the connection between metabolism and cognition” I will post more details as we get closer to the conference.

#PhiMiSci just announced a Call for Abstracts for a book symposium on “The Brain Abstracted. Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” by Mazviita Chirimuuta, which offers a novel philosophical study of the brain sciences. Deadline: 15th of April 2025.

I‘m currently guest editing a book symposium on the excellent and award-winning book “The Brain Abstracted“ by Mazviita Chirimuuta. If you’ve read the book and would like to write a comment, here is the call for abstracts: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... #philsky #neuroskyence #edusky

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

I finished drafting the last chapter of my book on conceptual development. Now looking forward to discuss it with students on Wednesday in our seminar on conceptual change! #philsci #philsky

Quite a while ago I moderated a panel on conceptual complexity in science for the Conceptual Engineering network, together with @rosenovick.com and Ingo Brigandt. You can now watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zylJ...

"This is fine" Edition "You will be OK 2025", Pacific Palisades (Video von @krassenstein auf X)

Also I saw this here yesterday

I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)

Mister Rogers never misses

Counterpoint to Woolf: Woody Guthrie’s list of #NewYearsResolutions for 1943 31. LOVE EVERYBODY 32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND 33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

Psych version

Great #tippingpoints webcast below with @lisgilmore.bsky.social @bobkopp.net Mike Oppenheimer, @rlshwom.bsky.social. We talked about their paper's critique of some tipping point science (in climate and society) and paths to clarity. I noted Steve Pacala's "monsters behind the door" concept. 1/

Tipping point framings can lead to political paralysis. This video highlights that it may also favour overly technocratic responses. Understanding abrupt changes in the climate system matters. Negotiation and participatory democracy for just and equitable responses matters as much, if not more.

the most Christmascore philosopher is Noël Carroll, who was born on Christmas Day, has a Christmassy name, and even looks like Santa Claus

"If you stop doing something bad for the environment, but it has a warming effect on the climate, are you geoengineering?" Read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on what happens when cleaning up pollution means more warming, feat. @danvisioni.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social:

Documents reveal that the fossil fuel industry has exerted influence over COP since its beginning. "There’s never really been a time when there was a pure understanding of climate change that was unpolluted." By @amywestervelt.bsky.social & @roycerk2.bsky.social for Drilled Media. bit.ly/4glVVAU

Many of you shared this piece saying it’s great but didn’t explain just how great. Apart from being utterly absorbing, for this philosopher of science the story is a case study of values of anti-racism driving respect for facts and improving scholarship on purely epistemic terms. A privilege to read

In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵

This is, technically, a sandwich.

Research grant application and the actual outcome

Endlich wieder schön drinnen gemütlich machen

🚨 BREAKING: 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered for #PlasticsTreaty talks — outnumbering every single delegation at #INC5. Their goal? Protect polluters’ profits. #KickPollutersOut 👉🏽 Full story: bit.ly/3B36xFM

Instant classic.

PHILOSOPHY OF MACHINE LEARNING, Spring 2025 syllabus Week 1: Richard Evans's work on why ML needs to encode Kant's categories to have true intelligence Weeks 2-16: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Skeptics say we can't replace fossil fuels due to massive primary energy needs. But renewables are more efficient because there are no combustion losses. Electrification can cut energy use by 40%. We need to use the right metrics, increasing efficiency & ending fossil fuels for a zero-carbon future.

This is going around again! Clearly it's time to resurrect this which I made for twitter back when it was less evil. Types of Psych Papers [Note: it is slightly more cynical (for humour value) than I actually am]

Hi everyone, I am happy to report that my review of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's 2023 book (Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation) is now online #philsci, #philbio, #philpsy, #hps, #sts, #histsci, #histSTM

Miguel Ohnesorge on quantifying value-laden concepts: why we should not align with stakeholder values #PSA24

Our symposium on exploratory research is in full swing! Currently speaking: @jolienfrancken.bsky.social on new ways of building cognitive ontologies in neuroscience #PSA24