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...