super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some philosophers are among the new class of ACLS fellows...

The 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award goes to...

@cailinmeister.bsky.social Nice mention in the Atlantic today! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...

And also the wonderful and incomparable @elizaha.bsky.social as BJPS’s Deputy Editor!!!

Did you know TRIDENT labs count over 70 Highly Qualified Personnel including trainees, students and research staff across four leading Canadian research institutions? Check out more about one of these amazing individuals, below and on our website! 🌎🔬🤝 #NFRF tridentpreclinicaltrials.org/hqpspotlight

Congrats to Danielle Williams and Arieh Schwartz for both having new articles out in Synthese. As the former chair of their respective dissertation committees, this is a 'proud mom' moment for me. ☺️ link.springer.com/collections/...

Check out this upcoming event featuring two incredible women, the honorable Dr. Kirsty Duncan and TRIDENT research lead @lisasaksida.bsky.social. ♀️🌎🔬!!! www.events.westernu.ca/events/schul...

2025 Summer School of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, will feature a stream on Topological Explanations, run by myself and Jim Woodward, & @jackiesullivan.bsky.social and Muhammad Ali Khalidi's stream on Psychiatric Kinds and Natural Kinds. More info: socmetsci.org/2025-summer-...

If you're interested in theory in biology, please consider applying for this EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course "Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems", organized by @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy, @nrepina.bsky.social, and James DiFrisco. meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... #philsci #evobio

What a team! Philosophy, molecular neuroscience, neuroimaging, cognitive testing, partnership development, open science and open data, knowledge translation. In mice and marmosets. All in aid of better preclinical testing paradigms.

Philosophers of science! Please share widely the latest suite of PSA Office Hours, which includes an awesome career event in April as well as one-on-ones with profs. www.philsci.org/psa_office_h...

😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com

These are organized for PSA For grad students to interact with scholars at other institutions!

Want to know how the TRIDENT proof-of-concept preclinical evaluation works? Check out a snip of our process animation below, or view the full version via our website 👀🤗🔬 tridentpreclinicaltrials.org/platform

What do pictures and episodic memories have in common? In today's post, Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum) investigates this important question through the tools of picture semantics. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

New from the BJPS Review of Books: The Brain Abstracted —Mazviita Chirimuuta Reviewed by Daniel C Burnston #philsci #philsky #neurosky #neuroscience

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If your paper is under review somewhere that takes anon review seriously, don’t post/present the paper with identical title/abstract! Many a paper has been slowed down by ed/ref learning the AU's identity by e.g. an email alert about a preprint in their AoS. Paraphrasing will help you here!

Weekend spent to finish my slides for the PSA Biennial Meeting in New Orleans. My President’s Address will be on Sat 16th at 6pm on the topic of ‘Local Knowledges and the Right to Participate in Science’ — this is based on recent work I did with the UN for this report www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Book reviews are what Saturdays are for. Chris Smeenk reviews Gordon Belot's Accelerating Expansion (ed: bit personal, no?)

BJPS Towers welcomes three new additions... www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/new-a... #philsci #philsky @catemar.bsky.social

So wonderful to see @uoft.bsky.social IHPST alumnus Greg Lusk joining the BJPS team!

Hello! I'm new here (previously at x.com/rebecca_char...). I'm a historian of science, author of the forthcoming book "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (tinyurl.com/534nu8u8), and SETI theorist. Let's get to work.

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Extended deadline: July 25, 2024. Graduate students from all academic disciplines are invited to make submissions for the in-person 2024 Rotman Graduate Student Conference (RGSC), taking place on September 19-20, 2024 in London, Ontario. The topic of this year’s conference is scientific methodology

UPSS @philsci.bsky.social invites submissions (incl self-nominations) for Prize in Philosophy of Science & Race: book, article, or chapter published in last 5 yrs on topics related to scientific racism & philosophy of race/ethnicity. $500 prize awarded @ PSA'24 mtg. Nominations & copy due June 15th:

UPSS scholars participating in Mentoring Program who are current grad students or w/in 3 years PhD are eligible to submit an abstract for UPSS Session at upcoming PSA @philsci.bsky.social Biennial Meeting. UPSS scholars work with their mentors to refine project. Deadline submit August 1st. #philsci

Please follow @psa-upss.bsky.social for more info about the Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS pronounced ⬆️s) Initiative of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA @philsci.bsky.social), providing mentoring & more! www.philsci.org/upss.php #philsci #histsci

Consider giving to the PSA for Giving Tuesday! We do much to promote young scholars’ opportunities and seek to work for Phil of science to connect with scientists and policymakers around the world: mms.philsci.org/members/wish...

Important info for grad students (& those that love them - pass it on!). 1-2-1 chats w/leading lights of phil sci, thanks to @philsci.bsky.social. Sign up for January sessions with Carla Fehr, Alison Wylie, @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social & our own @plutynski.bsky.social: www.philsci.org/psa_office_h...

Very excited to announce that thanks to @pamba.bsky.social and York University (Toronto), we will be able to offer funding to support at least some of the attendees with the costs of attendance!

A book symposium on Nancy Nersessian's new book "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models & Methods in Frontier Science" (A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods) 17 November 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST online ⤵️ #philsci via @jackiesullivan.bsky.social