New paper out in Review of Philosophy and Psychology with Rasmus Pedersen and Jules Rankin — Judging Passage and Passing Judgment: From Distrusting the Present to an Error Dynamics Account of Passage of Time Judgments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Anyone know of any philosophical work looking at whether large language models persist through time? Preferably beyond (although not necessarily excluding) considerations of memory.

I am delighted to share Markus Pantsar's (@markuspantsar.bsky.social) and my new contribution to the philosophy of AI. Out now in Synthese (Open Access)! #philsky 1/3 doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Very much enjoyed being on the Footnotes2Plato podcast with Matt Segall and Tim Jackson discussing the frame problem, the limits of effective theorisation, the importance of alterity, flow, ethics and so much more! @footnotes2plato.substack.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQiX...

New paper by myself and Tom Montefiore, out now in Synthese! Bodily minded skill: active inference, flowing individuals, and the credit we owe them link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilMind #PhilCognition #Philpsy #Philsky

New paper by Siavosh Sahebi and myself, now out in Minds and Machines! LLM-“Friends” are Hostile Scaffolds in the Age of Loneliness link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilCognition #Philsky

Ontologizing Enactivism: Worldmaking with Ezequiel Di Paolo (dialogue with Tim Jackson) Timothy Jackson and I were back in the saddle, this time to discuss Ezequiel Di Paolo’s article seeking an enactive ontology: Di Paolo, E. A. (2023). F/acts: Ways of enactive worldmaking. Journal of…

Here is an opinionated overview in press at Philosophy Compass. Critical 4E cognitive science, as we call this emerging research program, adopts the 4E frameworks and concepts but with a critical lens: questioning its hidden assumptions and leveraging its theoretical resources for social criticism.

If anyone has a pdf (or access to a pdf) of Hans Jonas' Biological Foundations of Individuality, please let me know!

Now published in Biological Reviews! Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#PhiMiSci published a new standalone article: In “What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away”, Darius Parvizi-Wayne argues that both new and old attempts to solve the frame problem on the basis of the active inference framework are explanatorily inadequate.

Very excited to have the first paper of my PhD — What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away — published in @phimisci.bsky.social ! philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... #PhilMind #PhilCognition #Philpsy #Philsky

'The Idealized Mind: From Model-based Science to Cognitive Science' published by MIT Press. Claims: models of the mind are idealized models; this is consistent with scientific realism; yet, it blocks realism about neural representation and neural computation based on evidence from neuroscience.

We are very excited to share the conference schedule and book of abstracts for this year’s ISPSM! 💫 Link to schedule: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025sch... Link to book of abstracts: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025boo... #philmind #philsky

in Wheeler (2005) 🤠

Call for abstracts: Workshop “Evaluating Artificial Consciousness”: eac-2025.sciencesconf.org 10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum #PhilMind #consciousness #consci #sentience #Ethics #CogSci

Article: "Flow and intuition: a systems neuroscience comparison" Coauthors: Steven Kotler @dariusparviziwayne.bsky.social Michael Mannino academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

New paper alert! Flow and Intuition, out now in Neuroscience of Consciousness. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... Very happy to have worked on this with Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, and Karl Friston. The era of habitual mental actions is upon us!

right, so what’s different about this place?