Gavin Foster🦧
@gibbonitathought.bsky.social
- Purdue PhD student / Affiliate at Social and Cognitive Origins Group
- Animal cognition -- ToM
- Norm psych.
- Kant
Prev: UofT/IHPST, Carleton
- Animal cognition -- ToM
- Norm psych.
- Kant
Prev: UofT/IHPST, Carleton
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Really excited to share my first ever published paper, forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology: "From Monkeys to Infants: The Empirical Challenges Facing Mental Fictionalism"
It's open-access, which I'm really happy about.
Brief 🧵 on what it's all about!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's open-access, which I'm really happy about.
Brief 🧵 on what it's all about!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Latest papers: Agata Machcewicz-Grad discusses a hybrid view of beliefs developed by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas, which combines a fictionalist treatment of standing beliefs with a realist account of occurrent judgments doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
October 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Latest papers: Agata Machcewicz-Grad discusses a hybrid view of beliefs developed by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas, which combines a fictionalist treatment of standing beliefs with a realist account of occurrent judgments doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
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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!
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!
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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!
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!
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I'm updating my AI poster to fill out the last few years (2022-2025). I have an idea of how it will go, but I thought it would be a good idea to get a wide range of input to make sure I cover as much as possible. Please comment (preferably with a source link) something you think is worth adding. 🥳
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I'm updating my AI poster to fill out the last few years (2022-2025). I have an idea of how it will go, but I thought it would be a good idea to get a wide range of input to make sure I cover as much as possible. Please comment (preferably with a source link) something you think is worth adding. 🥳
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Tomorrow Mason Westfall (Johns Hopkins) will join the CAIC Brown Bag series for a mid-week talk titled "Are Sexual Orientations Really About Gender?"
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Tomorrow Mason Westfall (Johns Hopkins) will join the CAIC Brown Bag series for a mid-week talk titled "Are Sexual Orientations Really About Gender?"
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Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
buff.ly/dCkwPr0
buff.ly/dCkwPr0
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
buff.ly/dCkwPr0
buff.ly/dCkwPr0
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As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT
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New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
After science
Twenty-five years ago, Ted Chiang wrote a prescient science fiction short that began: “It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, makin...
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Don't forget to submit your philosophy and psychology papers to SSPP 2026 in Atlanta! It's going to be a banger.
southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/
southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Don't forget to submit your philosophy and psychology papers to SSPP 2026 in Atlanta! It's going to be a banger.
southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/
southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/
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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.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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.
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1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Just won my court case against my previous landlord in full after a lot of time and work. What a great way to start the week.
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just won my court case against my previous landlord in full after a lot of time and work. What a great way to start the week.
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
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🥳 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥
🚨New Paper!🚨
Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't!
We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't!
We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
🥳 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
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Massive congratulations to my friend and @jhu.edu colleague, @chazfirestone.bsky.social!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
January 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Massive congratulations to my friend and @jhu.edu colleague, @chazfirestone.bsky.social!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
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tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
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This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:
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Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday
Telling myself over and over again that it doesn't matter cause we still have hockey...
November 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Telling myself over and over again that it doesn't matter cause we still have hockey...
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Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) invites submissions for its next annual meeting, to be held in Halifax June 4-6, 2026. Submission Deadline: Saturday January 10, 2026 #HPS
cshps.ca
cshps.ca
Home - CSHPS/SCHPS
Announcing the 9th Notes and Records Essay Award
cshps.ca
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!
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The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
I've caught a bug and it's destroyed my sinuses. How does anyone write philosophy with clogged sinuses? I presume it's impossible. Wittgenstein might have written during WW1, but this is way worse I promise.
October 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I've caught a bug and it's destroyed my sinuses. How does anyone write philosophy with clogged sinuses? I presume it's impossible. Wittgenstein might have written during WW1, but this is way worse I promise.
Are there any photos of Davidson when he's younger? Could never find one.
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Are there any photos of Davidson when he's younger? Could never find one.