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Susanna Schellenberg

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Distinguished Prof of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guggenheim Fellow, Author of The Unity of Perception (OUP 2018), http://tinyurl.com/2p8ttuux perception, cognition, reflexivity in biological and AI systems.🤖🧠👩‍🔬🧪 http://susannaschellenberg.org

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Mar 21

Here is another element of the theory behind severence. It’s a core chapter of the book I’m currently writing on the nature of perspectives. I started working on this paper in 2018, but put it on hold several times to complete other projects.

Free to download at the link below for a short period.

V—The Flexibility and Stability of Perspectives

Abstract. This paper develops an account of perspectives that explains both perspectival stability and flexibility informed by research in neuroscience, co

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations to Jordan Scott for defending what was allegedly just one dissertation, but in fact was two: one in the philosophy of race, and one in epistemology. He is now off to Oxford for a three-year postdoc, and will be much missed here at Rutgers.

Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Aug 6

What do you think he means with "you have to dive down ... and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you"?

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Aug 6

From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Deadline for submission is on Dec. 15.

Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...

Capacities-first Philosophy

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: CAPACITIES-FIRST PHILOSOPHY. This special issue aims to analyze various ...

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta for winning the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”.

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Jun 5

It’s like watching a couple who waited too long to get divorced.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · May 31

It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature

A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · May 15

(via Bernard Kobes)

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Apr 29

oh wow wow wow. Wow.

It's officially out, after many years:

"Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"

authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...

Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.

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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · Apr 7

Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.

Relational Moral Demands

Abstract. Relational moral theories hold that at least some moral demands are grounded in a relation between individuals. But how should this relation be u

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · Apr 23

My Neural Mechanisms Online talk 'Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits' takes place on Monday April 28th - 7am for me, more civilized hours for most of the rest of you! Responses from Gualtiero Piccinini and Edouard Machery.
www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Apr 14

Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands

Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · Apr 5

The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor - Nature

A standard commercial CMOS FET can exhibit synaptic-like long-term potentiation and depression or neuron-like leaky-integrate-and-fire and adaptive frequency-bursting behaviour when biased in a specif...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Apr 6

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Apr 11 at noon EST USA time.
Here's the paper to get the discussion going:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Everyone welcome but register ->

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience

The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c....

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · Mar 26

Eva Dyer and I wrote an opinion piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why neuroscience needs to embrace complexity and accept the "bitter lesson" by using a data-driven regime at scale.

With commentary from several wonderful researchers!

🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Mar 26

How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series.

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity

To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Mar 26

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity

To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.

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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · Mar 23

Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪

Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...

General info: encode.pillar.vc

#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

ARIA Opportunity Space: Scalable Neural Interfaces

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Mar 21

But, no, it does not explain the baby goats. #severance

Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Mar 21

V—The Flexibility and Stability of Perspectives

Abstract. This paper develops an account of perspectives that explains both perspectival stability and flexibility informed by research in neuroscience, co

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Mar 20

I know of course that this is more complicated for those of us whose research depends on NIH and NSF funding!

Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Mar 20

Congratulations to my brilliant graduate student, Andrew Rubner, for landing a TT job at UNC (among several others). He is deferring his start date at UNC to Fall 2026 to complete another year of his Bersoff postdoc at NYU. It was a pleasure being his supervisor!

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Mar 19

The administration seems to want academics to live in fear and poverty. They don't seem to be aware that living in poverty doesn't scare us. We all chose to get a PhD.

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