Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford. Please repost and register now! @blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @philoswarwick.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

I wrote a commentary on @enactedmind.bsky.social's recent Proceedings B paper, to show why I think the insights of his postnatal dependency hypothesis are so powerful. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Coming *very* soon #philsci

If you care about language evolution, or are just looking for some heavy-ish weekend reading, Geurts & Moore (Eds.) Evolutionary Pragmatics is now available to order. The paper version won't be shipped until the end of August, but there's an electronic version on Oxford Academic today.

Department of Philosophy at Warwick celebrates its 60th anniversary in Senate House @uolpress.bsky.social with speeches on why #philosophymatters by Qassim Cassam, Heather Widdows, @guylongworth.bsky.social and @mmmccabe.bsky.social

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University. Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence. Please share widely! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

Seeing an old friend might prompt vivid memories of times you spent together. Do other animals have the same kind of memory - episodic memory? @aliboyle.bsky.social and I introduce philosophical issues around such questions in a new Phil. Compass piece doi.org/10.1111/phc3... 1/9

Traditions of behaviour have been found to be passed on in numerous species of animals. Now, major #conservation agencies have begun to recognize that these discoveries could have big implications for conservation agendas. Explore the new #PhilTransB issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

@pamba.bsky.social unsurprisingly has some of the best non-human participants of any academic conference (and many great humans too)

So glad to be back together for PAMBA in Santa Barbara!

🐸 We're excited to announce our upcoming workshop on Animal Communication 📅Save the date... see you in Valencia! 🔗: decrep.blogs.uv.es/workshop-ani...

Funding scheme for anyone to come and do a two-year postdoc on aesthetics at York! british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/po.... Application deadline: 31 May 2025.

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 PAMBA Prize, Giulia Palazzolo @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social for her paper Toward a bounded hierarchy framework for the study of the evolution of human syntax www.the-pamba.com/prize Congratulations Giulia!

Roman Frigg and I have revised our entry on Models in Science for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is now online. plato.stanford.edu/entries/mode...

If you're interested in philosophy of biology—particularly its intersections with #evolution, #paleosky, and comparative studies of #behavior, #cognition, and #culture —consider following @theramseylab.bsky.social! We're a cool group of philosophers with a broad range of expertise! #philsci #HPbio

Susana Monsó talks about animal concept of death on the Big Brains podcast. www.youtube.com/shorts/baVga...

Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I am thrilled to share that my paper “Toward a bounded hierarchy framework for the study of the evolution of human syntax” is the winner of the 2025 Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association Prize. Really looking forward to presenting this paper at the PAMBA Conference later this month!

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

Today in #PhiloFortnight2025 we launch Daybreak, a #philosophy podcast broadcasting research at Warwick 🚀 In our pilot episode we're joined by Andrew Huddleston to discuss ‘ressentiment’ - a toxic, vengeful anger that threatens our social lives 🔥 #PhilosophyMatters open.spotify.com/show/7FMsQjL...

How did speech acts come about in the evolution of communication? To launch #PhilosophyMatters at Warwick, Mitch Green gave a talk @warwick-mindaction.bsky.social last Friday on "The Cultural Evolution of Speech Act Norms". #PhiloFortnight2025 #philsky

@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?

In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of new work on the philosophy & cog sci of norms. If you want to get up to speed on it, check out this newly revised SEP entry on the Psychology of Normative Cognition by @dryan149.bsky.social, Stephen Setman & me. plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...

The latest SEP entry in the area of Animal Minds and Behavior is now out! @cameronbuckner.bsky.social on Animal Social Cognition is a great introduction to theory of mind in animals, and includes discussion of social play, culture & imitation, emotion, norms & more. #philsky #cognition

PAMBA 2025 in Santa Barbara is inching closer! April 24-26 will be here before you know it, with keynote speakers Dorit Bar-On Laura Danón Simon Fitzpatrick Mark Rowlands Stay tuned for the CFP and exciting news!

Warwick Philosophy Xmas Lecture! 👇🎄🎁🎅

I’ve created a new feed for #philosophy job listings. It includes posts with the hashtags #PhilJob, #PhilJobs or #PhilosophyJobs, as well as links to philjobs.org. Save/pin and like the feed if you find it useful! 🙏 #PhilSky #academia bsky.app/profile/did:...

This was a labour of love. Co-written with Giulia Palazzolo. Since the field consists of disconnected pockets of intense research, I think this is likely the most complete and systematic overview of the philosophy of animal communication literature to date. plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...