Following the road map laid out by philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, “Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature” examines how the concept of a pattern can address deep questions in science and philosophy: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205203...

New post is up on The Feedback! 👀

Check out the SPAN seminar series! Great intro level seminars on concepts relevant to neuro and phil neuro. All are free to attend for SPAN members 🥳

And the mentorship program!

Check out the @danafoundation.bsky.social funded ITRC grant recipients. A little memory, some embodiment and olfaction, and color perception!

SPAN’s website and membership platform just got a huge upgrade! Memberships are now fully integrated into events. If you’re familiar with how the PSA/APA tracks memberships— it’s like that!

The CAIC Launch Event 🚀 is next week! Check out the scheduled talks 👀

i had a dream last night that i was teaching and when i went to start i had absolutely no lesson plan so i did what anyone would do and i started teaching them marr's levels.

Lunch with Bill Newsome after his A+ talk today!

new open access paper out in PhiMiSci. i talk about computationalism and the many ways in which you can be a computationalist (if you want to, no pressure). philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

🚀 It's almost time to officially launch CAIC! There have been a couple of changes to the schedule-- check them out and then be sure to RSVP: caic.centers.purdue.edu

How cool is this session!! If you will be at the PSA and you want to pre-read and attend, please reach out. SPAN is gifting a group of attendees a hard copy of the book. Talk with @sussillodavid.bsky.social and have your book signed!

is the brain a computer? idk ask me tomorrow

that putnam paper gets the most clout from this collection, but the Dimensions of Mind book is filled with lots of papers worth reading!

@tonychemero.bsky.social's new book is here. I can't wait to read it 🤗

"persons and bodies"

you guyz they’re playing tubthumping on the oldies station

Cool CFP on neural computation at Bochum 🧠

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Association Association at Purdue! 🥳

🔥 NEW PUBLICATION 🔥 @jacovides.bsky.social has a forthcoming paper titled "Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology" 👉 Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/JACHOT-4

@caic-at-purdue.bsky.social is hosting their center launch event on April 2-3, 2026 at Purdue University! The event is free to attend with RSVP. Visit their website for more info + the RSVP link!

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906. 🧪 👩‍🔬 As far as I am aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her. (1/n) Image: Computer History Museum

i wrote a paper on two senses of medium independence: the haugeland sense & the garson sense. the haugeland sense is like putnam's multiple realizability & the garson sense is like piccinini's medium independence. they are different and the difference matters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

SPAN is still accepting volunteers for our mentorship program. Mentors should be early career (grad - pre-tenure) and should be specialized in neuro or phil of neuro. There is a $500 stipend for those who are paired with a mentee. Info is on our website-- link below.

👂📖 Somebody Should… listen to @dryan149.bsky.social, Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva’s book just released in audio format!

The CAIC launch event schedule just went up + the RSVP link is live!

plato wasn’t a mathematical platonist: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Join us at Purdue to launch the Cognition, Agency, Intelligence Center with a brilliant group of speakers over two days on April 2-3 🥳🧠🤖

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our @danafoundation.bsky.social funded Mentorship and ITRC program! We're reviewing submissions now and will announce the awardees at the start of April 🥳

Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!

philosophy.

At Purdue philosophy, counterexamples are forbidden. We couldn't care less what is metaphysically necessary. Show us a study that says we're wrong, or get out

it’s almost time!

Berlin! (with @tonychemero.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, and @laurennross.bsky.social)

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This week in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue:

A little over a week left to submit a symposium abstract for SPAN at the PSA:

Highlights from this mornings Coffee & CAIC where, due to a scheduling change, Dan Kelly and Brett Karlan held an impromptu debate about authenticity and multiplicity!

Loretta wants you to know that we'll be heading to The Ohio State University soon where I'll be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy 🥹 The OSU phil department is absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to go do philosophy with them! 🐎 🐻 🚂 🌰

Loretta is available to chair a session at the APA if anyone’s looking

i am once again reminding you about the @danafoundation.bsky.social funded SPAN grants! 👀 deadline approaching soon 👀

A new article has been published in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism in the science of consciousness: "The symphony of consciousness and the minimal experience of self" by Jeff Yoshimi and Jason Ford.

i just came across a typo in a paper that calls 'mechanists' "mechanistas" and i am hereby voting that we adopt that term henceforth thank you.

an old post from the former bird site. perhaps an even bigger self own than it was 4 years ago

as a former Mellon funded postdoc i will say that being a postdoc does feel like a hostage situation and now i know who to blame

🧠 The MeReX program is now available online if you want to see what we'll be talking about in Berlin at the end of the month! www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026

Later this month in Berlin, with @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @davidcolaco.bsky.social www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026

I wrote about the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, and his profound thinking about AI and the nature of intelligence. aiguide.substack.com/p/on-brian-c...