I always get distracted by the shadows of the camera drones on the pitch while watching soccer. It just makes me think that a Mario Kart item block is gonna drop from the sky, and to be fair that would make this sport much more interesting.

My not-very-online colleague Maria Waggoner @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social @purduephilosophy.bsky.social just published an incredibly interesting and original paper in Phil Imprint on the agential value of intrusive thoughts. Y'all should check it out! journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...

Did you know Purdue University was home to the first ever Computer RPG? D&D, 1975. People don't realize how important the Midwest was for the history of computers In particular, Urbana-Champagne, Iowa State, Purdue, and Indiana Bloomington.

"Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people. Used to control people instead of to free them" Cover of the first issue of People's Computer Company. October 1972.

Very happy to announce that I will be joining the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Philosophy of Cognitive Science later this fall! 🧠

Sky Woman (1936, Ernest Smith)

Finally being forced to read this creepy ass looking book

A new tool lets researchers probe brain circuit function without requiring some kind of external stimulation as in optogenetics and chemogenetics. #neuroskyence By Simon Makin www.thetransmitter.org/synapses/des...

Incredible photo reveals nature's perfect camouflage, making the owls nearly impossible to detect. 📷 Alan Murphy

Help us congratulate Postdoctoral Fellow Kate Nicole Hoffman, whose paper "(How) Can We Attribute Mental Disorders to Animals?" has been accepted for publication in the journal Biology & Philosophy. #philosophy #philosophyofbiology 🎉🎉

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Corvids are extremely intelligent and they have excellent taste.

How I feel trying to understand what the hell Galen Strawson is saying half the time.

"Were there one uniform scientific community, realising an ideal of openness might be achievable by simple remedies. But there is no such entity. Scientific communities can be demarcated via discipline or via nationality/region." Helen Longino on open science.

Philosophy is easy, all you have to do is tell people about episodes of Seinfeld

"You there, good sir! Would you mind giving me the time?" "But of course, my good man. It is now time t." "Is It really?! Time t already? Then I'm afraid I must be off, for at time t I must Φ!"

I had a paper on Hume on Miracles accepted by the _History of Philosophy Quarterly". It's got more history in it than most history of philosophy papers do. I try to make sense of an argument of Hume's by reading it in the sectarian context of the time. philpapers.org/rec/JACHOT-3

Pierre Bayle on Spinoza: “Very few persons are suspected of adhering to his theory; and among those who are suspected of it, there are few who have studied it; and among the latter group, there are few who have understood it.” #philsky #philosophyburns

Nobody remembers telephone numbers anymore. Memory technologies increasingly free us up to use memory in other ways. Hamish Linehan and Matthew Sims are at the Palace today, asking how this changes the normative constraints on memory, for us and for other species. #philmemory

One of the greatest British exports is Time Team, a show where a group of archaeologists bully a random field in Shropshire or something for three days until it admits there used to be a Roman villa there.

One month from now, IPM5 will be in full swing. Today’s post at The Memory Palace has links to the program and info about registering. Take a look! #philmemory

#philsci #philsky

Three different people sent me this gif for my birthday And I'm not complaining

New Purdue Postdoc just dropped! philjobs.org/job/show/31449 We're interested in folks studying social ontology / phil of Econ (e.g. nature of the firm, markets, money, collective intentionality). Folks interested in empirical methods are also encouraged to apply

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down May 1. When websites close, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves 30 years of web history: web.archive.org #90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory

Making my life polycentric by splitting myself into 5 different people and letting them compete for the best paper idea.

New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

CO3 is by far my favorite conference. Literally zero people who aren't interested in hearing you talk about monkey theory of mind. It was great to catch up with all my friends from Hopkins and also to make plenty of new ones!

Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Rethinking #theory of mind across species! This session examined how #animals track others’ knowledge, follow gaze, and potentially use symbolic representations, displaying diverse pathways to “mindreading” that extend beyond and are akin to human-like #cognition. #CO32026

Wow counting down the days... 😂 #leibniz #philosophy

Happy Easter!

The CAIC Launch event was a wonderful success! We are grateful to our wonderful speakers and the many guests who spent time with us over the last two days! Read about the conference in this lovely write up from the Purdue Exponent: tinyurl.com/5cxysw97

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

99% of the time, saying that feature F explains why humans are unique or special is just rhetorical window dressing for something like "F is a thing humans do and I think that's neat."

The CAIC launch event is THIS week! We heard there were goodie bags for the first 100 people to stop in! 🎁 👀

The CAIC Launch Event 🚀 is next week! Check out the scheduled talks 👀

You’re unlikely to eat Twinkies as a regular snack or still believe that Pop-Tarts provide a balanced breakfast — so stop consuming ultraprocessed content. Don’t use TikTok. Don’t use Instagram. Don’t use X. Their sugar-high benefits aren’t worth the costs. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

🚀 It's almost time to officially launch CAIC! There have been a couple of changes to the schedule-- check them out and then be sure to RSVP: caic.centers.purdue.edu

Kant says: stop reading novels!!!! God forbid you come to remember the characters of fantasy novels when you could instead have memorized 53 new maxims to will and therefore be an even better person.

Episodic memory, as we know it now, might not have emerged at a specific point in our evolutionary history. Instead, it may have been cobbled together in a stepwise manner. Rebecca Dreier (LSE) is at The Memory Palace today exploring this possibility; take a look! #philsky #philscisky

If you work on values in science, and have noticed that the literature is a bit too focused on values in science in Anglophone democracies – and that it therefore stays silent on issues that we should be talking about – please consider submitting an abstract to our workshop! (24–25 August, Helsinki)

Last week's Coffee & CAIC gave us a chance to celebrate our inaugural CAIC postdoc @okaydaniellle.bsky.social on her job market success. Next year she'll be a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU, before starting her TT job @ The Ohio State. We’re toasting her hard work and bright future with Buckeyes!

The Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis 👉 The cognitive challenges associated with interactions with predators and prey create a co-evolutionary arms race that promote bidirectional enhanced cognition Corollary: no predation, little or no cognition www.nature.com/articles/s44...