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Philipp Haueis
@phaueis.bsky.social
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Philosopher of science working on concepts, experiments, discovery, models, explanation, and societal issues, especially in neuroscience and climate research.
Currently assistant prof @ Bielefeld University, Germany
website: philipp-haueis.de
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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.bsky.social · Sep 3
I feel honored that „A generalized patchwork approach to scientific concepts“ is the editors‘ choice in the current @thebjps.bsky.social volume! 🎉🙏 It is now permanently free access:
doi.org/10.1086/716179

#philsky
#EduSky
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phaueis.bsky.social
Paper on developing concepts for neuroscience now published open access:

doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

We argue that the success and failure of concepts fundamentally depends on epistemic goals.
#cogsky #neuroskyence #cognitiveneuroscience #philsky #philsci #philosophysky #cogsci
Developing Concepts for Neuroscience: A Philosophical Toolkit
Whether and how concepts should be developed depends on the phenomena that neuroscientists aim to describe, classify, and explain. These epistemic goals shape when introducing novel terms like “defau...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM
phaueis.bsky.social
My paper on
„Developing concepts for neuroscience: a philosophical toolkit“ with Daniel Margulies was just accepted for publication @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

We argue that the success and failure of concepts to understand the brain fundamentally depends on our epistemic goals (1/2)
Image shows a brain, with arrows going from epistemic goals to three boxes labeled introducing concepts, revising concepts and retiring/revising concepts, because the goals shape when these forms of developing concepts succeed or fail to advance our neuroscientific understand the brain.
January 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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davidcolaco.bsky.social
The Deadline for Commentary Proposals for our target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is Tuesday, February 3, 2026. For details, follow the reposted link below:

@phaueis.bsky.social

#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
davidcolaco.bsky.social David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · Dec 8
The call for commentary proposals for @phaueis.bsky.social and my BBS target article is now posted. It appears that one can download the preprint via this page. Think about it:
Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
www.cambridge.org
December 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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davidcolaco.bsky.social
The call for commentary proposals for @phaueis.bsky.social and my BBS target article is now posted. It appears that one can download the preprint via this page. Think about it:
Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
www.cambridge.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
phaueis.bsky.social
More press about our BBS paper on metabolism and cognition:

aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t...

#neuroskyence #cogsky #philsci
Thinking Takes Energy
A new study shows how our brain metabolism sets the limits of thinking. Researchers explain why cognitive models remain incomplete without considering biological resources.
aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
phaueis.bsky.social
For German speakers, LMU just posted a press release on our BBS target article „Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling“

www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

#cogsky #neuroskyence #philsky #philsci
Bei Gehirnmodellen den Stoffwechsel mitdenken
MCMP-Studie: Kognitive Theorien sollten metabolische Grenzen berücksichtigen
www.lmu.de
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 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
phaueis.bsky.social
Very exciting news to share! Me and @davidcolaco.bsky.social published a target article in BBs on metabolism and cognition! We argue that models of cognition should incorporate metabolism - either to evaluate if existing models are biologically plausible, or to generate new models (1/3)
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
phaueis.bsky.social
This is why it’s fun to teach on your research: today we discussed a chapter of my book on patchwork concepts in science. The students asked if we try can build a patchwork, and so we used the case of “gene“ from the previous session, which I hadn’t analyzed explicitly before!
#philsci
A chalkboard showing a patchwork model of the gene concept. On the left is the classical gene patch, with the technique of cross-breeding, scale of whole organisms, and the property of patterns of inheritance. On the right is the molecular gene patch, with X Ray crystallography as technique, the molecular scale and the property of DNA. The patches partially overlap because the DNA is involved in intergenerational inheritance between parent and offspring, but also explains how proteins are produced while offspring develops.
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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openlab.bsky.social
School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025 has started today with a talk by @phaueis.bsky.social!
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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openlab.bsky.social
The deadline is approaching! We wait for your applications till Monday, July 21st!
July 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
phaueis.bsky.social
Had a great session on the relation between metabolism and cognition at BSPS Glasgow, organized by @davidcolaco.bsky.social . We presented joint work on using metabolism to constrain and generate cognitive models (1/2)
Philosopher David Colaço, eating a black suit jacket, white shirt and black tie in front of an image with a white balloon with „energy“ written in blue, a blue sky and white clouds on the back, some green tree canopies in front.
July 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves. • Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
June 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
phaueis.bsky.social
As the semester days get hot, our Phil neuroscience readings are hot off the press: today we talked about Dan Burnston’s latest: epistemic reduction of ‚decision‘ to accumulate to bound models in neuroscience. We discussed which aspects of decision can or cannot be reduced by these models (1/2)
June 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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dlevenstein.bsky.social
Serious question:

why is theory development in neuroscience so damn hard?
June 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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bradleybusch.bsky.social
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
phaueis.bsky.social
Another gem from our Phil Neuroscience seminar: Mazviita Chirimuuta on canonical computations and explanation in neuroscience: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We discussed what distinguishes mechanistic from minimal model explanations, how to identify neural details relevant to explanation (1/2)
May 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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lehrgutblog.bsky.social
🤝 "Philosophisches Diskutieren"
🧭 von Philipp Haueis (Hannover / Bielefeld) @phaueis.bsky.social
👉 jetzt auf lehrgut.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
phaueis.bsky.social
Today I taught the paper on “memory transfer” by the great @davidcolaco.bsky.social in my class at @iphilluh.bsky.social . The was phil sci at its best: general conceptual work (what is a scientific phenomenon?) with a concrete historical case on interesting science, a normative angle 1/2
May 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Tech companies manufacture demand for chatbots and image generation, and then that in turn manufactures demand for coal and gas.

Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis

www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...
AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers
An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.
www.desmog.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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steurer.bsky.social
Budgetdefizite sind eindeutig unser größtes Problem.
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · Apr 10
The Extreme Weather Report, April 10, 2025: This is your weather on fossil fuels.
#extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news
April 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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steffenkoch.bsky.social
This study is interesting. The discussion relating it to linguistic relativity is misleading, though, since that's not about how something is called, but whether a language has a term for a category to begin with.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action
Despite widespread concern about climate change, a majority of people are not engaging in climate actions necessary to help decrease the risks posed b…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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modeltransfer.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 Only 2 days left to apply! 🚨🚨🚨
2-year postdoc position for candidates with interest and skills in Digital Humanities & Digital/Computational Philosophy of Science.
Looking forward to your applications!
📅 Deadline: April 10

#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
cherfeld.bsky.social Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · Feb 28
🔥JOB: Come and work with us! The @ERC_Research MODEL TRANSFER team is expanding again: we look for a 2y postdoc with interest and skills in Digital Humanities, Digital/Computational philosophy of science; deadline: Apr 10. Contact me with any questions and share www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities or Digital/Computational Philosophy of Science – Leibniz University Hannover
www.uni-hannover.de
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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neuropharmnerd.bsky.social
relatedly:
tumblr post from user tsarina-anadyomene: Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]
April 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
phaueis.bsky.social
Fantastic talks so far at the epistemic diversity, pluralism and progress workshop in Wuppertal. Here @oscarw.bsky.social is talking about pluralism about philosophical views of scientific progress.
The philosopher Oscar Westerblad in front of a screen displaying problems with monism in philosophy discussions about progress.
March 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM