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...