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! 🥳

🥳 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥

I think about this post every day 🧪

Massive congratulations to my friend and @jhu.edu colleague, @chazfirestone.bsky.social! Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!

tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime (thank you apa!! and everyone!!)

This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:

Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday

Telling myself over and over again that it doesn't matter cause we still have hockey...

Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) invites submissions for its next annual meeting, to be held in Halifax June 4-6, 2026. Submission Deadline: Saturday January 10, 2026 #HPS cshps.ca

It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!

The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I've caught a bug and it's destroyed my sinuses. How does anyone write philosophy with clogged sinuses? I presume it's impossible. Wittgenstein might have written during WW1, but this is way worse I promise.

Are there any photos of Davidson when he's younger? Could never find one.

Oh, and for those who enjoy spitting their coffee out at memes, we have an absolute winner from @okaydaniellle.bsky.social 10/10, Danielle!

Kant on Righteous Spinoza, and some Adam Smith open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

This Saturday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk during @ispsm.bsky.social's annual conference. The talk is part of a symposium on realism in neuroscience. Check out the ISPSM profile for a link to watch online 🧠

@evanwestra.bsky.social is heading to Princeton to discuss a paper titled 'Desire without Metarepresentation' at the Perspectives on Perspectives Workshop 🥳

I want to be the Tom Bombadil of philosophy.