Sarah Robins
@sarahrobins.bsky.social
Philosopher at Purdue. Philosophy of Memory, Psychology, Neuroscience.
www.sarahkrobins.com
www.sarahkrobins.com
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🚨 Call for Papers!
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
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#philsky
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9
#philsky
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🚨 Call for Papers!
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9
#philsky
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9
#philsky
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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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!
Juan Diego Bogotá (Jyväskylä) is at The Palace today, asking how groups share knowledge of their collective past and whether it warrants the title "collective memory." Juan has translated his thought-provoking post, so it's available simultaneously on the Palacio. Enjoy!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
When a person views an object used as a token of a historical event, what kind of memory is being activated? Today at The Memory Palace, Juan Diego Bogota touches on kinds of collective memory from events and material culture in English and Spanish!
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/que-es-mne...
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/que-es-mne...
¿Qué es mnemónico acerca de la memoria colectiva?
Juan Diego Bogota (Universidad de Jyväskylä), Traducción del autor
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Juan Diego Bogotá (Jyväskylä) is at The Palace today, asking how groups share knowledge of their collective past and whether it warrants the title "collective memory." Juan has translated his thought-provoking post, so it's available simultaneously on the Palacio. Enjoy!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
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#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.
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@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
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#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...
@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...
Reposted by Sarah Robins
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...
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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/...
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
When we are recollecting a story, what discerns all are other memories from being forgotten or merely being inaccessible at that moment? Today at The Memory Palace, Jessie Munton discusses what constitutes forgetting and its many uses in our lives.
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/is-forgett...
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/is-forgett...
Is forgetting discovered or created?
Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
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Discover how greater gender parity and the growth of female leadership across Latin America created the conditions for a successful social movement, in this illuminating case study from Somebody Should Do Something
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Voices of change: Leadership’s role in the rise of social movements
Many sparks fail to start fires where conditions seem right, while others flare up into fires where nobody would have expected. Few movements in recent history provide as good an example of this as t…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Discover how greater gender parity and the growth of female leadership across Latin America created the conditions for a successful social movement, in this illuminating case study from Somebody Should Do Something
www.amba-bga.com/insights/voi...
www.amba-bga.com/insights/voi...
Next week in San Diego!
Come check out the #MCCS25 debate on November 14!
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Next week in San Diego!
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🔥 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
Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🔥 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
Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund) is at The Memory Palace today, talking about the special case of memories for patterns of personal experience. These generic memories play a significant role in our lives, and so should play a larger role in our study of memory, too. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
How do we recall the memory of events that may happen repeatedly, such as our own birthday? Today at The Memory Palace, Katja Crone analyzes different types of memory, including what she terms "generic" memory, when it comes to frequent events.
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-we-rec...
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-we-rec...
How We Recall Recurring Events
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund)
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund) is at The Memory Palace today, talking about the special case of memories for patterns of personal experience. These generic memories play a significant role in our lives, and so should play a larger role in our study of memory, too. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
The Memory Palace takes a big step forward with our translation project today. Check out our El Palacio de la Memoria section, featuring the efforts of the MemoriEs project - and come back regularly (or subscribe) to see more that we’ve got lined up to debut in the weeks ahead!
#philscisky #philsky
#philscisky #philsky
Do you know that the Memory Palace publishes research not only in English but also in Spanish? Check out this post from Sarah Robins to know more about this initiative!
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/fiesta-en-...
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/fiesta-en-...
Fiesta en al Palacio
Sarah Robins (Purdue University)
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Memory Palace takes a big step forward with our translation project today. Check out our El Palacio de la Memoria section, featuring the efforts of the MemoriEs project - and come back regularly (or subscribe) to see more that we’ve got lined up to debut in the weeks ahead!
#philscisky #philsky
#philscisky #philsky
Squinting at this image? You’re trying to identify objects in the blur, much as psychologists do when they approach research objects. Uljana Feest develops this view of psychology in her recent book, and she's talking about how it shapes implicit memory at The Memory Palace today. Enjoy!
#philscisky
#philscisky
What does it mean that memory is epistemically blurry? Today at the Memory Palace, Uljana Feest discusses this important question and gives us a preview of her book "Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration".
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open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Memory as an Epistemically Blurry Object of Research
Uljana Feest (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Squinting at this image? You’re trying to identify objects in the blur, much as psychologists do when they approach research objects. Uljana Feest develops this view of psychology in her recent book, and she's talking about how it shapes implicit memory at The Memory Palace today. Enjoy!
#philscisky
#philscisky
Reposted by Sarah Robins
This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠
“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
How does explicit memory, like episodic memory, shape implicit attitudes? Today at the Memory Palace, Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) discusses this and other questions, with particular attention to implicit biases and their harmful consequences.
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open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
How Memory Shapes Implicit Attitudes
Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona)
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
The Memory Palace is back for a new season! Starting with a great post on controversial commemoration from Ten-Herng Lai. Take a look!
After a summer break, the Memory Palace is back with an exciting post on good and bad forms of commemoration from Ten-Herng Lai (University of Stirling). Exciting news about the Palace's projects are coming soon!
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open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Commemoration and Controversy
Ten-Herng Lai (University of Stirling)
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October 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Memory Palace is back for a new season! Starting with a great post on controversial commemoration from Ten-Herng Lai. Take a look!
The Memory Palace wraps up our season with a post from Dylan Trigg (CEU), arguing for a return to the richer, historical notion of nostalgia. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Today, we end the first cycle of posts for 2025 with Dylan Trigg's reflections on nostalgia and grief. We are coming back after a summer break with new exciting posts and initiatives at the Memory Palace. Stay tuned!
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substack.com/@philmemoryp...
Nostalgia and Grief
Dylan Trigg (Central European University)
substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Memory Palace wraps up our season with a post from Dylan Trigg (CEU), arguing for a return to the richer, historical notion of nostalgia. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Highlights from the most recent SSPP meeting are up at the Brains Blog this week.
I started things off with some thoughts about the distinctive virtues of the SSPP model for an interdisciplinary conference.
Thoughts? Objections? Let’s get our hands on some ketamine and hash it out!
I started things off with some thoughts about the distinctive virtues of the SSPP model for an interdisciplinary conference.
Thoughts? Objections? Let’s get our hands on some ketamine and hash it out!
SSPP 2025: Sarah Robins on SSPP
By Sarah Robins, Purdue University Thanks to the Brains Blog for featuring some of the great work from the latest SSPP meeting this week. There are several ‘phil & psych societies’, so it feels worth kicking off the week with a note about what distinguishes the…
By Sarah Robins, Purdue University Thanks to the Brains Blog for featuring some of the great work from the latest SSPP meeting this week. There are several ‘phil & psych societies’, so it feels worth kicking off the week with a note about what distinguishes the…
SSPP 2025: Sarah Robins on SSPP
By Sarah Robins, Purdue University Thanks to the Brains Blog for featuring some of the great work from the latest SSPP meeting this week. There are several ‘phil & psych societies’, so it feels worth kicking off the week with a note about what distinguishes the SSPP. The SSPP is, so far as I know, the oldest/longest running of these organizations.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Highlights from the most recent SSPP meeting are up at the Brains Blog this week.
I started things off with some thoughts about the distinctive virtues of the SSPP model for an interdisciplinary conference.
Thoughts? Objections? Let’s get our hands on some ketamine and hash it out!
I started things off with some thoughts about the distinctive virtues of the SSPP model for an interdisciplinary conference.
Thoughts? Objections? Let’s get our hands on some ketamine and hash it out!
Reposted by Sarah Robins
This week we are very happy to co-host a series of posts with the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, featuring work from this year's annual meeting! Check out posts each day of the week on the blog.
June 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This week we are very happy to co-host a series of posts with the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, featuring work from this year's annual meeting! Check out posts each day of the week on the blog.
What does it mean to relive past experiences? How should the feeling of episodic memory be studied? Francesca Righetti is at The Memory Palace with some thoughts on how to use phenomenology to move forward on these questions. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Episodic remembering comes with a complex phenomenology. How can we account for it? Which methodology is best suited to study it? Today, Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum) shares some very interesting ideas about these questions.
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
What does it mean to relive an experience through remembering?
Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum)
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What does it mean to relive past experiences? How should the feeling of episodic memory be studied? Francesca Righetti is at The Memory Palace with some thoughts on how to use phenomenology to move forward on these questions. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Reposted by Sarah Robins
Episodic remembering comes with a complex phenomenology. How can we account for it? Which methodology is best suited to study it? Today, Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum) shares some very interesting ideas about these questions.
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
What does it mean to relive an experience through remembering?
Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum)
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Episodic remembering comes with a complex phenomenology. How can we account for it? Which methodology is best suited to study it? Today, Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum) shares some very interesting ideas about these questions.
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
How much of our self-knowledge comes from memory? Ben Winokur (University of Macau) is at The Memory Palace today on the complicated process by which self-knowledge requires belief in one's own memory. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
What's the role of memory in self-knowledge? Which type of memory is the most relevant one for getting to know ourselves better, e.g., our own beliefs? Today at the Memory Palace, Ben Winokur (University of Macau) explores these exciting questions.
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Memory and Self-Knowledge
Benjamin Winokur (University of Macau)
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
How much of our self-knowledge comes from memory? Ben Winokur (University of Macau) is at The Memory Palace today on the complicated process by which self-knowledge requires belief in one's own memory. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Catching my breath after an amazing 3 days at #EngramsandEnsembles2025 Bit terrifying to close out such a stellar meeting, but absolutely worth it for the conversations afterward. thanks @tjryan.bsky.social for one hell of an engram!
May 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Catching my breath after an amazing 3 days at #EngramsandEnsembles2025 Bit terrifying to close out such a stellar meeting, but absolutely worth it for the conversations afterward. thanks @tjryan.bsky.social for one hell of an engram!
Reposted by Sarah Robins
PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
May 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Reposted by Sarah Robins
Day 28 (breakthrough): The brain's memory "engram" - a tremendous cumultative brain research accomplishment that unfolded across a century, including multiple Nobel prizes.
Also a terrific test case for the question: How does progress in (neuro)science happen?
#ElusiveCures30
Also a terrific test case for the question: How does progress in (neuro)science happen?
#ElusiveCures30
May 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Day 28 (breakthrough): The brain's memory "engram" - a tremendous cumultative brain research accomplishment that unfolded across a century, including multiple Nobel prizes.
Also a terrific test case for the question: How does progress in (neuro)science happen?
#ElusiveCures30
Also a terrific test case for the question: How does progress in (neuro)science happen?
#ElusiveCures30