Bergson’s view of memory has largely been lost in recent philosophical discussion Doudja Boumaza is at the Palace today, with a strong case for bringing him back! #philsky #philscisky

Trust in leadership is essential to success A new study found that PhD students who had greater trust in their graduate advisor finished their first year more motivated, higher in well-being, and more academically successful than those with lower advisor trust. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

📢 New Paper 🚨 Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life. In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus. bit.ly/4kvLOwA

APA member Bas van Fraassen has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Congratulations! dailynous.com/2026/01/21/b...

Anyone have suggestions for things to do in Bochum on my day off? I hear the mining museum is nice, but I must confess that mining is not one of my special interests (though I'm sure it's fascinating).

The Memory Palace is back for 2026! Our first post is from Charlotte Harmon, our Purdue student editorial assistant. The piece highlights the work of some of our translators and how language plays a role in the philosophy of memory. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Finished my readings for this week, and now it's time to play the greatest point and click adventure game (besides Myst and Riven) while drinking a couple of PBRs.

Highlights from today’s Coffee & CAIC with @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social

My fellow grad students do not know about Cow Tools, and I find this deeply disturbing. Even worse, when I try to explain how important it is, they simply stare at me blankly, as though Cow Tools is NOT a significant cultural moment.

Tomorrow in BRNG 7119: @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social will be talking about how norms are entangled with other norms, interwoven into a larger social fabric 🌀

This coming Friday @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social will be presenting their work 'Norms, Articulated and Un--' at Coffee & CAIC! Join us at 10am in BRNG 7119 🥳

Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...

Not that I could afford to subscribe, but I miss daily newspapers.

A while ago, I posted a set of notes about the Bayesian approach to inquiry and how it can help us think about questions raised in the recent literature on zetetic epistemology. I’ve now corralled that material into something like a first draft of a book. I hope it might be of interest to others.

Ramsey coming up with his mature theory of induction in the middle of a talk

i've updated my history of AI poster. new version is on my website. 🥳

🎅Festive news in mental fictionalism!🎅Second: Bruno Mölder asks "Can mental fictionalism avoid cognitive collapse?" Merry Christmas! doi.org/10.1080/0951... @journalphp.bsky.social #philsky #philmind #cogsci

“textual ruins” ❤️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

Latest papers: Gavin Robert Foster offers an ontogenetic challenge to mental fictionalism in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Purdue grad student @gibbonitathought.bsky.social throwing some real shade at mental fiction

⚙️ New Publication ⚙️ @okaydaniellle.bsky.social's new paper 'Computationalism, implementation, and the literal interpretation of computational models in neuroscience: distinctions with a difference' is forthcoming in Philosophy and The Mind Sciences. Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/DANCIA-3

🔥 New Publication 🔥 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social have a forthcoming book review in MIND 🥳 Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/FOSROA

🚨 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social have a new review of Emma Borg's Acting for Reasons: In Defence of Common-sense Psychology. TLDR we're big fans. We also use the review as a chance to riff on the relation between reasoning and mindreading. Check it out!

Delighted to share (with @evanwestra.bsky.social) a preprint of our review of Emma Borg’s Acting for Reasons, forthcoming in Mind. It was a pleasure to read and engage with. We suggest the thesis of the book could be supplemented by considering regulative accounts of FP. philarchive.org/rec/FOSROA

Respect for Ahmed al Ahmed. #hero

As a reminder, our deadline for Association Association submissions is Monday. Please consider applying

Brilliant talk by Justin Wood (Indiana) on his "digital twin studies" - raising newborn chicks, and artificial neural networks, in the same (virtual) environments - fantastic new perspective on the nature/nurture debate #CIFARwinterschool #TWCF www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

10 more days to submit extended abstracts for IPM5 philevents.org/event/show/1... Avoid FOMO; join PhOMO! #philsky #philscisky

Plans for today: 1) Make some coffee 2) Make black bean chili 3) Identify the unconditioned for every conditioned cognition I have in line with the Supreme Principle that constitutes reason itself

The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.

"You seem happier" Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.

Latest papers: Agata Machcewicz-Grad discusses a hybrid view of beliefs developed by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas, which combines a fictionalist treatment of standing beliefs with a realist account of occurrent judgments doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️ Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue June 10-12, 2026 Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us! Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

I'm updating my AI poster to fill out the last few years (2022-2025). I have an idea of how it will go, but I thought it would be a good idea to get a wide range of input to make sure I cover as much as possible. Please comment (preferably with a source link) something you think is worth adding. 🥳

Tomorrow Mason Westfall (Johns Hopkins) will join the CAIC Brown Bag series for a mid-week talk titled "Are Sexual Orientations Really About Gender?"

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0

As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT

New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don't forget to submit your philosophy and psychology papers to SSPP 2026 in Atlanta! It's going to be a banger. southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/

This Friday, Eric Margolis will be giving a talk titled 'Why the Approximate Number System Supports Concept Nativism—Even If There Are No Innate Concepts' the CAIC Brown Bag Series.

1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them. (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just won my court case against my previous landlord in full after a lot of time and work. What a great way to start the week. Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere! 🥳

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