Latest papers: Gavin Robert Foster offers an ontogenetic challenge to mental fictionalism in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

🔥 New Publication 🔥 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social have a forthcoming book review in MIND 🥳 Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/FOSROA

Dr. Ximena Bernal (Purdue, Biology) will be giving a talk titled 'From Neurons to Evolution: How Eavesdroppers Shape Communication Systems' on January 22nd as part of the PBK Visiting Scholar Lecture 🗣️

More exciting developments at Purdue -- congratulations Chris! www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202... @purduephilosophy.bsky.social @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social

highlights from today’s talk with Eamon Duede and Daniel Friedman 🔥

tomorrow!

⚙️ 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

This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag @eduede.bsky.social and Daniel Friedman will present their paper "How (Not) to Attribute LLM Mental States" 🤖🧠

This week on the Psychological Sciences Department:

🤖 NEW PAPER 🤖 : @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's new paper 'AI empiricism: the only game in town?' is forthcoming in 'The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies' (Routledge). Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4

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!

Tomorrow Mason Westfall (Johns Hopkins) will join the CAIC Brown Bag series for a mid-week talk titled "Are Sexual Orientations Really About Gender?"

This week in the Psychological Sciences at Purdue:

🤖 NEW PAPER 🤖 : @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's new paper 'AI empiricism: the only game in town?' is forthcoming in 'The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies' (Routledge). Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4

🌊 NEW PUBLICATION 🌊 : @dryan149.bsky.social's new paper "Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching" is out now in Topoi! Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Highlights from Eric Margolis's Brown Bag Talk!

Today, in the Psychology Department, CAIC Co-Director, Sarah Robins gave a wonderful talk on memory during the Seminar for Neurotrauma and Disease!

Tomorrow!

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.

📖 NEW PUBLICATION: The mind-brain is a computer, but what is (neural) computation? By @coreymaley.net & Oron Shagrir Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠 Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

🥳 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥

HOT DEBATE 🔥 On November 13th @sarahrobins.bsky.social will be moderating a debate at the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society's Annual Meeting. TOPIC: Are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? 🤔

🔥 New Publication: @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social has a book chapter titled "Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence" forthcoming in 'Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations' Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE

This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag: Javier Gomez-Lavin will be presenting a paper titled 'Trust the Process: Why AI Ecology, Not Scaling Laws, Offers a Guide to Machine Intelligence.' 🤖

This week, the Center for Paralysis Research will be hosting @sarahrobins.bsky.social on November 12 for their Fall 2025 Seminar for Neurotrauma and Diseases 🧠

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

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:

This week in Neuroscience at Purdue:

🧠 Next week in the Department of Psychological Sciences:

Our website is now live! 🥳 Visit us online to find CAIC events, info about Purdue's new cognitive science major, and to see what we're up to! caic.centers.purdue.edu

🚨 New publication out now in Philosophy of Science 🚨 In his new article, Eamon Deude argues that we can acquire a priori knowledge from LLMs and DNNs even though they are entirely opaque to us. 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

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 🧠

Check out what's happening next week in the Department of Psychological Sciences:

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

@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" 🤖 🧐

This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠

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...

Highlights from this morning's brown bag with Taylor Davis!

October 10th, philosophy grad student Eric Servatius will be presenting a paper titled 'Signaling contempt: Immigration, social identity, and public contempt expressions' at The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum conference. Eric's paper was also chosen as the best graduate paper for 2025! 🥳

“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

The next CAIC Brown Bag Series features Taylor Davis who will be discussing and presenting a proposal for a new project titled 'Norms in the Scientific Image' 🧬🦠🧫

New Publication! Purdue grad student, Nesim Aslantatar's paper titled 'A new problem of evil?' is out now in Religious Studies. 🤖 Find the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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 🎲

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! ✏️🎲

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!