Delighted to be talking about mathematical phenomenology next week on zoom. It will be a fairly high level overview, and I'll be sandwiched between a whole bunch of other exciting talks on the same topic. Thanks for organizing @johanneskleiner.bsky.social !

i, personally, identify as a hologram.

New post now up on THE FEEDBACK: Epistemic reduction of the concept of ‘decision’ by: Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) Read the post here: thefeedback.blog/2025/11/03/e...

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

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

I’m really looking forward to this next year! 🧠 ⚙️ 💭 🌀

Another Philosophy & Neuroscience Salon hosted by @pessoabrain.bsky.social is coming up on November 5th! Link below 👇 If you'd like to have span partnership events emailed to you monthly, join our mailing list: philandneuro.com

does this count as a conference photo? 👀 I really enjoyed our session on realism in neuroscience!

brb updating my cv 👀 The ISPSM was a lot of fun and even more fun to be able to submit a meme that matched my talk!

Tomorrow :)

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APA member John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis) argues against the concept of "emergence" as an explanation for life, consciousness, and time. iai.tv/articles/eme...

Was just about to post about this pet peeve in the AI lit, and then remembered I already have ...and yet the phrase lives on

Join us for another year celebrating ISPSM! Registration still open - and still free to all.

me: this slideshow is taking me forever to make. also me: googles ‘how to make letters into a glittery gif’

We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content. downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...

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

hear me out: uploading a preprint with matching merch on my website

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

As a Purdue grad, this is what I want to see!

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Highlights from @okaydaniellle.bsky.social talk on the black box problem in AI and its applicability to cognitive science 🧠

PSA is in the process of launching a subdivision focused on postdoctoral scholars! Help shape its mission and priorities—take our 5-minute survey here, All interested PSA members are welcome to join the conversation!

every philosopher ever

@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social will be visiting the Kansas State Wildcats for a colloquium talk this Thursday titled "Reflective equilibrium as a method of inquiry in technology ethics" 🤖 🧐

i’d just like to say that I got an R&R today and it has 3 pages of comments from the reviewer but they were all written in a very kind tone that respected what I was trying to do. it is possible folks. we can be this way to each other. it doesn’t always have to hurt.

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Coming up October 29th! Registration link below 👇

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This Thursday, @dryan149.bsky.social will be discussing his new book Somebody Should Do Something at the Seminary Co-op! Details here: www.semcoop.com/event/daniel...

do excellent Rick and Morty memes count as preprints or nah

the key to a good talk photo is capturing the #philosophyhands

there is a Jane Goodall special on Netflix right now that is absolutely wonderful. it’s a nice day to watch it. ❤️🦍🦧

🧠 Phil & Neuro Salon: 10.23.25 at 12pm EST 🧠 Held on zoom and open to all! Register for the talk here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🎲 Neurohumanities Booster Session 🧠 Neurology Through the Artist's Lens: Gamifying Visual Arts to Enhance Preclinical Neuroscience Education with Tammy Kaplan, MD and Christine Bentley, PhD Held on zoom with @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social! Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Philosophy grad student, @gibbonitathought.bsky.social has a new publication out now in Philosophical Psychology! 🦍 👶Check out the abstract and then read the whole paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Highlights from Samantha Ooley's talk: Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyian Model 🎲

Life at Purdue is basically just planes, cranes, and cotton candy skies

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

i’m definitely absolutely not talking about any mascot in particular but I do find the human ones where the costume is a human body with a giant plastic human head a little bit creepy.

@natashasnature.bsky.social says it perfectly. ❤️🦍

desk cat be deskin

Purdue grad student Samantha Ooley will be workshopping a talk titled 'Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyan Model' at the CAIC workshop this Friday! ✏️🎲

Missed the SPAN sesh at DSPNW? Now you can watch Randy Beer’s talk on the SPAN website! 🥳

This Tuesday David Thorstad from Vanderbilt University will be joining the mind and cognition research group to present their paper "Ecological rationality without externalism”. Read the abstract below!