Highlights from Neera Jain’s Coffee & CAIC talk 🥳

Tomorrow!

This Friday Neera Jain will be joining CAIC to discuss their work "Toward a Cognition-based Control System Framework for Human Teaming with Intelligent Agents" -- Join us at 10am in BRNG 7119! 🤖

👀 Updated Coffee & CAIC schedule 🔥

Highlights from today’s Coffee & CAIC with @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social

Tomorrow in BRNG 7119: @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social will be talking about how norms are entangled with other norms, interwoven into a larger social fabric 🌀

BIG events happening in neuroscience at Purdue! Check the flyers for more information 👀 🧠 👂 🥳

Highlights from last Friday's Coffee & CAIC with @coreymaley.net

This coming Friday @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social will be presenting their work 'Norms, Articulated and Un--' at Coffee & CAIC! Join us at 10am in BRNG 7119 🥳

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We had so many stars in our eyes with this lineup that we missed a couple of typos in the original poster 🤩 They're all fixed! A piece of 🍰 to anyone who notices what changed 😜

CAIC has been hard at work creating an interdisciplinary hub for pursuing big questions in cognitive science. This spring we are excited to officially launch the Cognition, Agency, Intelligence Conference featuring talks by an amazing lineup of interdisciplinary researchers. See you on April 2-3! 🥳

This Friday at Coffee & CAIC: @coreymaley.net will be presenting and discussing his paper on computation and computability 🧮

Check out the Coffee & CAIC schedule for Spring 2026 🥳 ☕ We have a variety of scholars presenting their work this semester-- join us on Friday mornings for some idea building and interdisciplinary conversation! (Coffee & CAIC is the Brown Bag Series renamed 😉)

congrats to @dryan149.bsky.social for being featured in Purdue Today 🥳🥳🥳

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 🔥

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⚙️ 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...