Excited to give a flash-talk today on the teleosemantic account of musical emotions at the 3rd Meeting of the Vienna Network of Music and Cognition Research (ViNoMaRe) at the CEU today, 5.30pm. #ViNoMaRe #CEU

This can be weaponized and shouldn’t be made public.

Yesterday's KLI Hike took us to the Nationalpark Donauauen. Thanks to Peter Sziemer, we learned a lot about the flora and fauna of this special habitat and also spotted some rare species, such as the little bittern, the European pond terrapin, and the violet bird's-nest orchid.

Excited to spend my EPSA Fellowship month at KLI! Thank you both @epsaphilsci.bsky.social and @kli.ac.at !

If Popper was a poet

The authors have now responded to our critique. Basically, they say that because humans don't always agree on the same beat, the two macaques don't have to agree with humans, or with each other, or even with themselves, to count as evidence of beat synchronization. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to give a talk today at the Evolution of Music and Communication Session, Cultural Evolution Society Conference in Rabat! Solving the “Meaning Problem” in the Evolution of Music: A Teleosemantic Account airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 #CESRabat

Since the modern university trumpets the values of innovation, “thinking outside the box”, and entrepreneurialism, it is hard to see what anyone has to complain about here

This one is wild...

I challenge causal inference folks to point out exactly where the error lies.

The plot thickens

Dziś startuje "Znaczenie Muzyki: Muzyka i słowo” na Akademii Muzycznej im. K. Szymanowskiego w Katowicach. Dwa dni rozmów o relacjach między muzyką a słowem, o semantyce muzycznej, krytyce, kompozycji i wykonawstwie. Ciesze się, że mogę brać udział!

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

One of the highlights of the 2nd day of "Negotiated Meanings, Norms, Cooperation, and Conflict in Linguistic Interaction" workshop at the Institute of Philosophy&Cog.Sci, Szczecin University From Jan G. Michel's (University of Bonn) great talk on: Articulation and Acceptance in Scientific Discovery

Looking forward to our workshop tomorrow: Negotiated Meanings, Norms, Cooperation, and Conflict in Linguistic Interaction Venue: University of Szczecin, Campus “Krakowska” ul Krakowska 71, Szczecin room 194

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

Instytut Filozofii i Kognitywistyki US oraz Cognition and Communication Research Group przy współpracy z Trafostacją Sztuki w Szczecinie zapraszają na Dzień Kognitywistyki 2026: Różnorodność w komunikacji i poznaniu. Piątek, 20.03.2026, Trafostacja Sztuki w Szczecinie, Św. Ducha 4, od 10:00.

Thank you #EPSA for this opportunity philsci.eu/fellowships! Looking forward to my month at #KLI and working on cultural evolution of musical meaning.

Wonder how Bluesky acts differ: philpapers.org/rec/COUTAA-4

New on the Archive: Szubart, Tomasz (2025) What are musical emotions? A proposal for a functional–teleosemantic approach. ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, 15 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 2084­–1043 https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27467/

We can introspectively test the Global Workspace Theory of consciousness: Just introspect your experience right now. Is there a welter of detail in many sensory modalities at once? If so, GWT must be false. Sadly, we are utterly incompetent at introspection. [link in 🧵]

What kind of functions musical emotions are and how do they fit into biological and cultural evolution? Managed finally to put on virtual paper and in english some preliminary ideas regarding my functional-teleosemantic account of musical emotion: argument.uken.krakow.pl/article/view...

The 2026 application round for the MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is now open. Please help us spread the word. www.philosophie.lmu.de/en/study/deg...

I'm speaking today at PSA Around the World 2025: "From Signal to Symbol: a Teleosemantic Framework for Musical Emotions".

Here's some outcome of philosophical fieldwork; a mentoring session in the woods with my boss. Evidence that supervision can provide fruiting bodies.

Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

8th SURe Workshop www.filozofia.pl/2025/10/14/8...

My first book (in Polish) is out: "Music and Mind: The Problem of Musical Meaning in the Light of Contemporary Cognitive Aesthetics of Music". Historical & contemporary philosophical accounts mapped on neuro/cog/evo takes. Musical representation is structural, neo-mechanistic and teleosemantic.

Huge thanks to the #ESPP2025 team at IFiS PAN for a superb meeting in Warsaw. I presented a teleosemantic account of musical emotions—how function & history give music content. Grateful for the sharp questions! espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

How I’ll be spending the day. Hokusai, Philosopher Looking at Two Butterflies

CEEPUS - Central European Exchange Program for University Studies - allowed me to provide a series of lectures on music cognition last week at KRE in Budapest. Amazing group of international students - thank you all for great discussions!

It's always important to remember to care about our philosophical health! Please do not procrastinate, we should find time to deal with it: www.philosophyexperiments.com/health/Defau... Most likely there is nothing to worry about, but—reportedly—a check-up at every career stage is strongly advised.

I knew, of course, that William Whewell first coined the word “scientist,” but I had no idea that the idea remained so controversial that Nature was still weighing in on the appropriateness of the term at least as late as 1925. https://www.nature.com/articles/115253a0.pdf #HistSTM #PhilSci #STS

No longer drinking Americano coffees. Upping the stakes.

Had the privilege of being asked to write a Preface to a new Ukrainian edition on John Stuart Mill *On Liberty*. Here's my final paragraph (pre-translation!).

Does technology evolve as biology? In many ways, it does. Is it continuous or occurs in bursts? By analyzing the evolution of programming languages with @svalver.bsky.social, we found the answer. Wrok started at @sfiscience.bsky.social. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

I wonder what Feyerabend would have to say about the separation of science and the state these days. That was one of the topics at the XXXVII Polish Philosophy Olympiad, where I’m thrilled to be part of the reviewing team. Submissions are outstanding, and the fellow teachers truly inspiring!

In my 2023 article with @heintz-c.bsky.social, we concluded that chimpanzee interaction is 'Ladyginian' rather than 'Gricean' Human life is full of Gricean conventions: this new study describes a Ladyginian convention. Nice work! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Einstein: 'What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don't say a word, yet the world understands you!' Chaplin: 'True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don't understand a word of what you say.'

Never did get round to Principia Mathematica. Thinking of getting it as an audio book.

The Centre for Cognitive Science at Jagiellonian University in Krakow is offering a post-doc position in Błażej Skrzypulec's project 'Ontology of Multisensory Unification': euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833

It was a great pleasure to host and speak with professor Mitch S. Green of UConn at our CCRG workshop "Speech acts, self-expression and music". The workshop focused on topics discussed in Mitch Green’s important works on verbal communication and artistic expression: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5U...

"What are musical emotions?" I'm speaking today at "New Horizons in Cognitive Science: Emotion-Volition-Action" at UKEN, Kraków. sites.google.com/view/kognity...