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heck yeah i am excited for this workshoptoknowsciencethought

The price of mass surveillance: "Data centers are so hot their ‘heat island’ effect is raising temperatures up to 6 miles away and impacting 343 million people worldwide". #ClimateSky fortune.com/2026/04/01/a...

The goose in the machine.

Continuing my presentation tour, I talked about work from my book project “The Conceptual Fabric of Science” @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social. I combine cognitive linguistics and my own patchwork approach to scientific concepts to argue that polysemy in science has communicative and epistemic value (1/2)

I had a great time presenting my work on comparing biological and artificial cognitive systems at the PAIR (Philosophy and AI Research) at FAU Erlangen Nürnberg today! Based on the joint BBS target article with @davidcolaco.bsky.social, I ask (1/2)

New peer-reviewed paper w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I wrote a summary of our author meets critics special issue @phimisci.bsky.social at the brains blog: philosophyofbrains.com/2026/03/23/b... #philskyence #edusky #cogsci #neursoskyence

Teaching: Phil of neuroscience class: 15 students, philosophy of AI class: 95 students. Huge change to when I studied. The neuro-hype is over. The brain is too complicated to figure out, haha! So everybody is working on AI until the next winter. #philsky, #cogsci, #neuroskyence, #ai

I have a new paper coming out on conceptual abandonment: philpapers.org/rec/SHIDFP-2. Abandonment is a ubiquitous strategy in the history of philosophy – philosophers have advocated getting rid of folk psychological concepts, the concept of harm, the concept of democracy, among many others.

Ingas a great time presenting and discussing my work on patchwork concepts and the dynamics of scientific understanding at the HPS department in Athens. Thanks to all participants for the great feedback and Theodore Arabatzis for hosting me! #philsci #edusky #cogsci #philskyence

I wrote a summary of our author meets critics special issue @phimisci.bsky.social at the brains blog: philosophyofbrains.com/2026/03/23/b... #philskyence #edusky #cogsci #neursoskyence

Paper on developing concepts for neuroscience now published open access: doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... We argue that the success and failure of concepts fundamentally depends on epistemic goals. #cogsky #neuroskyence #cognitiveneuroscience #philsky #philsci #philosophysky #cogsci

More good news: the special issue on “The Brain Abstracted” by the great Mazviita Chirimuuta just dropped @phimisci.bsky.social. Check it out here: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... (1/2)

Academic events in Berlin (2/2): Book launch of „Biomedical Visions“ at ICI Berlin, organized by @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and many others, with my Bielefeld colleague Lara Keuck amongst others!

Academic events in Berlin (1/2): Integrating explanatory paradigms in neuroscience at TU Berlin , organized by @beakr.bsky.social, with talks by @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social , @tonychemero.bsky.social, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social my collaborator @davidcolaco.bsky.social and more

“I’m much more concerned about the loss of natural intelligence than I am about the advent of artificial intelligence. And if artificial intelligence takes over, it is the fault of natural intelligence.“ Fran Lebowitz

Finished last revisions my book „The Conceptual Fabric of Science“ - this is an image from the chapter on the epistemic utility of patchwork concepts for describing, classifying or explaining phenomena. (1/2)

Die neue Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie (ZfPP) ist raus und damit der von Joseph Conrad, Stefan Knauss und mir herausgegebene Schwerpunkt "Die Klimakrise und die Praktische Philosophie". Hier ist der Link zur Ausgabe. Ich werde die Beiträge auch sukzessive einzeln posten.

There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026). Submission deadline: 15 February! Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️ eenps2026.sciencesconf.org #philsci

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

As a final reminder, the deadline for commentary proposals for our BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is next Tuesday, February 3. For details, follow the link. Please share if you can @phaueis.bsky.social #philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

Paper on developing concepts for neuroscience now published open access: doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... We argue that the success and failure of concepts fundamentally depends on epistemic goals. #cogsky #neuroskyence #cognitiveneuroscience #philsky #philsci #philosophysky #cogsci

My paper on „Developing concepts for neuroscience: a philosophical toolkit“ with Daniel Margulies was just accepted for publication @ejneuroscience.bsky.social We argue that the success and failure of concepts to understand the brain fundamentally depends on our epistemic goals (1/2)

The Deadline for Commentary Proposals for our target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is Tuesday, February 3, 2026. For details, follow the reposted link below: @phaueis.bsky.social #philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

The call for commentary proposals for @phaueis.bsky.social and my BBS target article is now posted. It appears that one can download the preprint via this page. Think about it:

More press about our BBS paper on metabolism and cognition: aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t... #neuroskyence #cogsky #philsci

For German speakers, LMU just posted a press release on our BBS target article „Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling“ www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/... #cogsky #neuroskyence #philsky #philsci

#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...

Very exciting news to share! Me and @davidcolaco.bsky.social published a target article in BBs on metabolism and cognition! We argue that models of cognition should incorporate metabolism - either to evaluate if existing models are biologically plausible, or to generate new models (1/3)

This is why it’s fun to teach on your research: today we discussed a chapter of my book on patchwork concepts in science. The students asked if we try can build a patchwork, and so we used the case of “gene“ from the previous session, which I hadn’t analyzed explicitly before! #philsci

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...

🚨🚨🚨 Only 2 days left to apply! 🚨🚨🚨 2-year postdoc position for candidates with interest and skills in Digital Humanities & Digital/Computational Philosophy of Science. Looking forward to your applications! 📅 Deadline: April 10 #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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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