This piece by ángel pinillos is so good napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...

Wrote this chapter on how modal cognition develops! check it out! philpapers.org/rec/NEUTDO-9

I thought (naively) that it's complete standard, now, to pre-register your experiments & hypotheses. But looking through many of the experiments (from very recent years) that I'm reading for something I'm working on right now, I'm actually seeing that that's actually not the case! Why not?

Syllabus (draft) on modal thought: flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL555-Moda... Comments welcome!

So well-deserved!! 🥳

Only one week left to register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind" at @umassamherst.bsky.social!

Hey folks- I’ll be doing the next one of these, if your grad students want to chat Philsci, game theory, evolutionary or agent based modeling, misinformation please share

Spread the word & register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind", combining perspectives from Phil & Psych, on April 26 at UMass Amherst! @umasspress.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/essenti...

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...

A vaccine that prevents cancer: ‘Scientists say the HPV vaccine works so well that this type of cancer could be eradicated in the near future.’ Over 99% of cervical cancers are caused by this virus—so preventing the infection prevents the cancer. Amazing news! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our paper "Giving Generic Language Another Thought" (authored by myself, Annie Bosse, Guillermo Del Pinal, and Rachel Sterken) is now officially out in WIREs Cognitive Science. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/3)

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

Just a reminder that the deadline to submit to @socphilpsych.bsky.social is (for real this time) Friday, Jan 31, at 11:59 Eastern! It's going to be a fantastic meeting, with keynotes from Louise Antony and Fei Xu, some incredible invited symposia, and a preconference "Possibilities Near and Far".

Check out my new syllabus for my PhD seminar on foundations of cogsci! this semester will be so much fun flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...

I have a new paper coming out in Ergo about algorithmic fairness, for anyone who might be interested in that sort of thing. philpapers.org/rec/FLEAFC

This profoundly important piece by Mohammad Alsaafin is a must-read today: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I am following the cue of Gazans celebrating on the streets and trying to feel some joy. I’m facing how numb I’ve become in order to survive. I longed for this moment for 467 days, and it’s here. And I don’t know how to access my feelings about it.

I wrote a blog post about the very different approaches to citing old papers in philosophy vs. psychology - and which approach is the better one xphi.net/2025/01/03/h...

Is generic language—eg “Brits have bad teeth”—a unique cause of harmful social cognition (eg stereotyping)? @eneufeld.bsky.social et al review the evidence and conclude the generics→ social bias link is more complex and less direct than previously thought https://buff.ly/48jgRFC

New paper alert! Junhyo Lee's & my paper on pornography's effects on desire is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly. We're expanding on Langton&West's presupposition model of pornography to explain its effects on desires, and argue that it issues implicit directives. philpapers.org/rec/LEEHDP?f...

SPP abstracts for the 50th Anniversary Meeting are due in one month, with a great lineup of speakers and events!

The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now. sites.google.com/view/causali... Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!

famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.

What's your favorite definition (/characterization/..) of analog and digital representations?

🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.

Check out my syllabus for my grad seminar "Foundations of Cognitive Science"! flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...