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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 3d

I am collecting articles that needle conventions about heredity (it ties to my work on memory). "Paternal exercise confers endurance capacity to offspring through sperm microRNAs," is an example, about which I have things to say. Any thoughts?

www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Paternal exercise confers endurance capacity to offspring through sperm microRNAs

Yin et al. show that paternal exercise improves offspring endurance capacity and metabolic health via sperm microRNAs that reprogram gene expression in early embryos, revealing how exercise benefits c...

www.cell.com

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · 4d

I then show that the available findings on memory traces are far more inconsistent than philosophers typically acknowledge. I conclude that it is premature to settle the debate and that further evidence on memory traces is required (4/4)

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · 4d

On this basis, I recast causalism and simulationism as competing hypotheses concerning the system’s functional profile, remaining as faithful as possible to each view (3/4)

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · 4d

I then examine what would count as good evidence for such a profile and, following Tulving, suggest that a functional characterization of memory traces provides strong support for hypotheses about episodic memory (2/4)

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · 4d

My paper 'Memory traces and the (anti)causalist debate' has been published in Philosophical Psychology.

In it, I argue that the debate between causalism and simulationism is a debate about the functional profile of the episodic memory system (1/4)

doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Memory traces and the (anti)causalism debate

One of the most important debates in the philosophy of memory is the causalism versus post-causalism debate. On the one hand, causalists defend the thesis that remembering requires a causal link vi...

doi.org

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 19d

My translation (EN - PT) for the Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology project is finally out // Minha tradução saiu, oh glória. @matthewbroome.bsky.social @ljspencer.bsky.social many many thanks 🙏🏻

periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/art...

Vista do Fenomenologia da Temporalidade e Psicopatologia Dimensional, de Thomas Fuchs e Mauro Pallagrosi

periodicos.ufsm.br

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · 29d

LOVE THEM!!!

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · 29d

Li isso tendo acabado de comprar uma caneca rosa da universidade kkkk

Simplesmente melhor cor

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is how democracies defend themselves. Le pen in France, bolsonaro in Brazil a lesson for the USA. Trump should never have been allowed to run again.

Au Brésil, l’ex-président d’extrême droite Jair Bolsonaro condamné à 27 ans pour sa tentative de coup d’Etat

Une majorité de juges de la Cour suprême brésilienne a voté ce jeudi 11 septembre pour reconnaître l’ex-dirigeant coupable d’avoir conspiré afin de se maintenir au pouvoir malgré sa défaite électorale...

www.liberation.fr

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Jul 26

Such a readable and fascinating argument by @jessiemunton.bsky.social of @cambridgephilos.bsky.social To see a visual object is to see how it could be, not just how it is. #openaccess #philsky

Can we perceive modal properties?

Can we see only how things actually are, or are we also able to see how things could be? Much work in philosophy of perception assumes that our visual perceptual experience is restricted to the actua....

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jul 24

Obrigado! (Thanks)

José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hahahahhahahahahah Vou visitar você muitas vezes!!! Fazer minha compra toda semana em Lyon pra economizar kkkkkk

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Jul 18

“Traits” are central units of biological analysis—but how should they be individuated, and relative to which ontogenetic frame of reference? In my new paper, I argue that answering this isn’t easy—and matters more than it seems. 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio #evosky #evodevo

Screenshot of a journal article titled "Two ontogenetic challenges to trait individuation" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, published in Synthese (2025) 205:219. The abstract reads: "Trait individuation is an epistemically indispensable and heuristically fruitful practice in biological science. However, important ontological issues transcend an epistemology-only reading of what trait individuation entails (e.g., adaptation and homology), prompting scholars to advance models and frameworks to grapple with this problem. Here, I articulate two challenges that arise when advancing theories and frameworks to tackle trait individuation: the synchronicity and the diachronicity challenges. The synchronicity challenge involves specifying the traits an organism has at a given moment in ontogeny, whereas the diachronicity challenge involves understanding the causal processes that drive trait individuation in development and tracing these units across time. To delve deeper, I introduce extant functionalist and structuralist perspectives on trait individuation and evaluate how they address both challenges. Overcoming these challenges is necessary for such accounts to fulfill their theoretical promise of individuating the traits that organisms have in an ontologically sound way."

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Special thanks to Kourken Michaelian and @kristinaliefke.bsky.social for hosting me and my research during my visits to Grenoble (11 months) and Bochum (6 months), respectively.

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you all!

2. I've been awarded a postdoctoral scholarship at the Université de Genève under the supervision of Fabrice Teroni and André Sant'Anna. I am deeply grateful to them for supporting me in this application process. I will start the position in September.

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Two nice things happened to me recently:

1. Last Thursday, I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. I would like to thank mainly Professor Ghisoni
and @openshaw.bsky.social, who supervised my research. The members of my committee and the friends I made along the way were also crucial.

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jun 26

The paper is now out:

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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Daniel J Nicholson @djnicholson.bsky.social · Jun 16

Every biological entity is unique; no two are exactly alike. Is this a trivial observation, or a profound metaphysical claim about the living world? Read my new paper & find out! It deals with Mayr's "Population Thinking"; one of the most familiar yet tragically misunderstood ideas in all of biology

Population Thinking and the Uniqueness of Biological Entities - Acta Biotheoretica

Acta Biotheoretica - The concept of ‘population thinking’ was introduced by Ernst Mayr in the mid-twentieth century and it has since become one of the most pervasive notions in the...

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cogscikid.bsky.social @cogscikid.bsky.social · Jun 16

Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior!

We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jun 16

relevant elements. After that, I argue that social norms are crucial for investigating the success and accuracy conditions of episodic memory. Finally, I discuss the consequences of success atomism for the current accuracy debate (4/4)

José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jun 16

(we should assess episodic memory's accuracy considering only relevant element in the context of retrieval). I argue that social norms in contexts of inquiry favor success atomism. I proceed to provide a model for assessing the success of episodic memory based on these
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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jun 16

In this paper, I show that the debate on the accuracy conditions of episodic memory is divided into two distinct assumptions: success holism (we should assess episodic memory's accuracy considering the whole scene) and success atomism
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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · Jun 16

My paper "Success atomism: the accuracy of episodic memory and its relevant elements" has been accepted for publication in Synthese. Please, check it out on my website.
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · Jun 11

ej green and i wrote a paper, which has been accepted for publication in nous! i won't lie to you, the paper is quite long and i'd say a bit dense, but here's a link to the full paper and a (...long, sorry) thread to give you a feel for the thing

philpapers.org/rec/WESPAO-2

Mason Westfall & E. J. Green, Perceptual Abstraction - PhilPapers

Perception puts us in touch with highly determinate properties of objects, such as fine-grained color shades and detailed surface shapes. However, most of our immediate perceptual judgments concern mo...

philpapers.org

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Jun 10

Get it while it's hot: BJPS Associate Editor Dana Tulodziecki's (@193.bsky.social) addition to the Cambridge Elements series, Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues, is out now and free

#philsci #philsky #hps

Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

www.cambridge.org

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