This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

✏️ 2 publications out in the current issue of Mind & Language 📄 Both engage the concept of 'medium independence.' @okaydaniellle.bsky.social argues that different concepts are being thrown around & @coreymaley.net argues we should get right of MI altogether: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680017...

These words by Michael Schwalbe counter any notion that academic freedom is a niche or quaint concern.

Is computation necessarily independent of its physical implementation? Now there’s a whole symposium on this question in the journal Mind & Language!

New paper is live! It’s part of a symposium with Danielle Williams and Zoe Drayson. It’s open access, so you can actually read it. doi.org/10.1111/mila...

Great talk by Danielle Williams (@okaydaniellle.bsky.social) at SPAN (@socphilneuro.bsky.social). on the historical context in which computing and computational concepts were introduced into neuroscience.

The 1st Society for Philosophy & Neuroscience @socphilneuro.bsky.social meeting was outstanding! I'm so sorry I have to miss the last day. Thanks to the organizers for putting together such an amazing lineup - great to see so many folks working at the intersection.

Great, reflective talk by Joe LeDoux at @socphilneuro.bsky.social

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a fascinating event. I’m glad I could attend. www.purdue.edu/events/ai-su...

If you’ve not yet heard the good news (or you’re not convinced) about analog computation, here’s a new publication for you! doi.org/10.1002/wcs.... #philsci #cogsci

Live in Cincinnati! One night only! #philsci #STS

Congratulations @coreymaley.net ! 🎉 #philsci

New Orleans philosophy people: I’m on stage live, two nights only! I’d love to see you. #philsci

I’m now the proud owner of one of the coolest books about analog computers, published in 1960. The illustrations are fantastic, both in terms of how well they help explain complex mechanical components, and their Mad Men-esque aesthetic.

Yeah!

The classes I’m teaching this semester are in Grissom Hall. Very cool.

Friends: what are some gluten-free versions of normally gluten-full foods y’all like?

“How much depends on the way things are presented in this world can be seen from the very fact that coffee drunk out of wine glasses is really miserable stuff, as is meat cut at the table with a pair of scissors.” — G.C. Lichtenberg

Does a neural circuit have to be “closed” in any sense to be functional, the way an electrical circuit must be? The wires of an electrical circuit must be loops, but the connections of a neural circuit don’t need to be, right?

A modest proposal: let’s replace talk of “courser/finer grain” with “lower/higher resolution.”

My article criticizing Gualtiero Piccinini's account of computation is now out in Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy. Check it out here: doi.org/10.3998/ergo...

The physical copy arrived today! It’s a small (and somewhat arbitrary) thing, but it’s quite cool to have a chapter between David Marr and Alan Turing, two heroes of mine. Check out the many other fantastic contributions, both classics and new work.

More from the latest issue of the BJPS: Analogue Computation and Representation —Corey J. Maley (@coreymaley.net) Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

This is cool. Also, there’s an important difference between what automation and computation.

From Marcin Miłkowski: “Corey Maley opens the HaPoC conference in Warsaw, talking on analog computing on a digital screen and in an analog room.” hapoc2023.sciencesconf.org

Come work with us! Assistant Professor in History/Philosophy of AI Department of Philosophy, Purdue University philjobs.org/job/show/24778

Two computers.

If you’re going to be in Warsaw next week and you’re interested in computation (which should mean most of you), come hang out with me for a couple days! I’m leading a workshop and giving a keynote. hapoc2023.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

I’m sad to be missing the Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience meeting. At the same time, I’m honored to attend the memorial conference for Gil Harman. I was his last Ph.D. student, and he helped me tremendously, in many ways. harmania.princeton.edu

You might have missed this: The 2024 Annual Meeting of the SPP will be organized at Purdue University by Corey Maley (Purdue, Philosophy) from June 19th, 2024 to June 22nd, 2024. Daniel Burnston (Tulane, Philosophy) and Laura Niemi (Cornell, Psychology) will be the Program Chairs for the 2024 SPP.

@cameronbuckner.bsky.social and I are in the same new issue of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science! @thebjps.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur...

Attn @coreyjmaley.bsky.social

Time to sell my MacBook on eBay.

**Can water compute?? ** This is a bit of a wild interview but if you filter some of the analogies it's quite intriguing. Navier-Stokes, fluids, and Turing computability (all via Terence Tao), what's more fun? @coreyjmaley.bsky.social ! https://www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/can-water-compute/

Fantastic metaphor for student belonging in college: holding a crown above students’ heads and challenging them to grow into it, rather than holding a question mark above their head and challenging them to remove it.