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Marco Facchin
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Postdoc at UAntwerp providing your daily dose of eliminativism.
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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · Mar 23
Finally had some free time (& will) to upload new preprints on: representation-hunger, illusionism & fictionalism. Soon(ish) you can also expect a preprint on radical embodiment and cognitive ontology - on you can wait and hear me talk about that at NMO (most likely).
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philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Prieto, Guido I. and Fábregas-Tejeda, Alejandro (2025) Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27297/
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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fintanmallory.com
This Millikan line goes (as they say) hard.
"White Queen Psychology" is a diatribe against meaning rationalism, as was the Epilogue of LTOBC. My desire is to kill meaning rationalism dead, and then beat on it. Perhaps I will succeed in raising one or two more doubts about it. Reasoning, I insist, is done in the world, not in one's head. Logical pos- sibility (known a priori) is impossible. And the only hope for inten- tional psychology is to embrace its biological roots.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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evanwestra.bsky.social
Millikan
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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evanwestra.bsky.social
I've had a thread of office whiteboard philosopher portraits going for a while on the other site. Figure I'll start a fresh one here. This is Susan Hurley.
July 24, 2023 at 9:18 PM
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edouardmachery.bsky.social
Trump working for Putin again:k and asking Ukraine to capitulate to russia.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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socphilpsych.bsky.social
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter

⭐️ Work by Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common-sense conception of visio....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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alfredvalley.bsky.social
I've crowdfunding a game with cards that look like this!

Come take a look 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alf...
Image showing 2 black and white cards with psychedelic borders. The one on the left is titled Ritual Whetstone and has a picture of someone sharpening a knife on a weird stone head. The one on the right is titled Lopsmite and shows a figure wielding a sword
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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evoneuro.bsky.social
So how can we best use museum collections for neuroanatomy research?
1. more skeletons in good quality
2. proper fixation of specimens
3. avoid long-term ethanol storage if possible.

And for more information on bird brains, check out our new book:
direct.mit.edu/books...

#BOU2025

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The top of slide asks: what needs to be done to better support the use of museum specimens for neuroanatomy? Below on the left is a drawer full of bright green parrots with yellow-orange heads: Carolina parakeets. "More skeletons!" is written below the image. Below middle is a plastic container with a preserved hawk head inside with the skin and eyes removed with the caption "better tissue fixation". Below on the right is written "ethanol for fluid specimens" that is then crossed out with a bold red X.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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davidcolaco.bsky.social
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
Royal Society B cover with AI generated image of endocasts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
meanwhile pigeons be like
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
she's doing her best
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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edouardmachery.bsky.social
Gestapo
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10d
A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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stevecooke.org
You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2026) Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms. Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual. pp. 23-32.

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27196/
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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gordondarroch.bsky.social
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Meneganzin, Andra (2025) The Fate of Behavioral Modernity. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27162/
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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hadas.bsky.social
peer reviewers when you try to sneak in irony
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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tonychemero.bsky.social
Cover of new book.
July 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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cruxia.bsky.social
Had to share this from twitter just because
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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davidcolaco.bsky.social
My article "When Engrams Become Exograms: Organic Data Memory and Biological Memory Extension" is now available open access from Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

This is part of a special issue on "Memory and Technology: 4E Perspectives"
When Engrams Become Exograms: Organic Data Memory and Biological Memory Extension - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
The advent of novel technologies has bolstered the idea of extended memory, where memory processes extend beyond the human body or brain. However, investigations of extended memory, and extended cogni...
link.springer.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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zoedrayson.bsky.social
🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What motivates mental fictionalism?
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️
@philsci-archive.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM