Wiktor Rorot
@wikror.bsky.social
philosopher of biology and cognitive science based in Warsaw, PL
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"The Riddle of Organismal Agency" is now available as a paperback version! Edited by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com, Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and Gregory Radick, the volume puts together reflections from #HistSci and #PhilSci on the topic of organismal agency.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"The Riddle of Organismal Agency" is now available as a paperback version! Edited by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com, Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and Gregory Radick, the volume puts together reflections from #HistSci and #PhilSci on the topic of organismal agency.
#HPBio
www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...
#HPBio
www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...
What role heuristics play in model organism research? How can the DEKI capture the development of MOs? Is basal cognition introducing novel MOs for neuroscience? This is what I try to explore in the new preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27054/
Looking for keys in model organisms: Interpreting and keying-up in basal cognition - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What role heuristics play in model organism research? How can the DEKI capture the development of MOs? Is basal cognition introducing novel MOs for neuroscience? This is what I try to explore in the new preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27054/
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School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025 has started today with a talk by @phaueis.bsky.social!
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025 has started today with a talk by @phaueis.bsky.social!
Applications are still open!
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
July 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Applications are still open!
We’re waiting for the applications to the School of Ideas in Neuroscience only until Monday!! Come hang out, it’s always fun
More info and the registration from can be found here - nenckiopenlab.org/the-school-o...
School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025
Dates: September 8-13, 2025, Warsaw, Poland The applications are open until July 21, 2025 (midnight anywhere on Earth). To apply, please fill the form: GOOGLE FORM Please be aware that since the Sc…
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July 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We’re waiting for the applications to the School of Ideas in Neuroscience only until Monday!! Come hang out, it’s always fun
Applications are open for another week, do not miss out!!
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
July 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Applications are open for another week, do not miss out!!
We’ve just opened the applications for this year’s School of Ideas in Neuroscience which will happen September 8-13 in Warsaw, Poland! We have an exciting lineup of guests and all we need now is some participants, so consider joining us and sharing the invitation :)
nenckiopenlab.org/the-school-o...
nenckiopenlab.org/the-school-o...
July 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We’ve just opened the applications for this year’s School of Ideas in Neuroscience which will happen September 8-13 in Warsaw, Poland! We have an exciting lineup of guests and all we need now is some participants, so consider joining us and sharing the invitation :)
nenckiopenlab.org/the-school-o...
nenckiopenlab.org/the-school-o...
So exciting!! I wish I could comeeee
We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?
April 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
So exciting!! I wish I could comeeee
Last year we met in the beautiful Dolomites to talk about “naturalistic” behaviour - now the brilliant organizers have put together a preprint which summarizes those discussions. Very much recommended! It definitely changed how I think about behaviour
We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...
March 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Last year we met in the beautiful Dolomites to talk about “naturalistic” behaviour - now the brilliant organizers have put together a preprint which summarizes those discussions. Very much recommended! It definitely changed how I think about behaviour
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The open access version of A Drive to Survive is now available to download for free!
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
(If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*)
- also it has way less typos.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
(If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*)
- also it has way less typos.
February 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The open access version of A Drive to Survive is now available to download for free!
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
(If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*)
- also it has way less typos.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
(If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*)
- also it has way less typos.
Really cool paper on how to think of actions involved in extended cognition (finally somebody putting philosophy of action to a good use): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cognitive offloading and the causal structure of human action - Synthese
The hypothesis of extended cognition (HEC) casts human cognition as constitutively dependent on its bodily and environmental context. Drawing on recent empirical work on ‘cognitive offloading’, HEC’s ...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Really cool paper on how to think of actions involved in extended cognition (finally somebody putting philosophy of action to a good use): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Exciting mail day! I received two new books with my contributions. In the volume on Conceptual Engineering, edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk, I co-authored a chapter with my PhD student @wikror.bsky.social on predictive understanding, using empirical evidence from scientific writing and peer review. 1/2
January 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Exciting mail day! I received two new books with my contributions. In the volume on Conceptual Engineering, edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk, I co-authored a chapter with my PhD student @wikror.bsky.social on predictive understanding, using empirical evidence from scientific writing and peer review. 1/2
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A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 PM
A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
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I realized that there was no story in English that would explain what happened to my institute, so I decided to write up this blog entry, which shows how low-quality AI systems fail to assess research quality: marcinmilkowski.pl/2024/11/20/w...
When AI Systems Fail: A Personal Account of the Crisis at Poland’s Leading Philosophy Institute
As the Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), I find myself in an unprecedented situation. Our institute, on…
marcinmilkowski.pl
November 20, 2024 at 10:48 AM
I realized that there was no story in English that would explain what happened to my institute, so I decided to write up this blog entry, which shows how low-quality AI systems fail to assess research quality: marcinmilkowski.pl/2024/11/20/w...
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Many thanks to @mmilkowski.bsky.social and Przemysław Nowakowski for presenting their work in progress in our Digital Methods reading group today!
👉Check out the paper by @wikror.bsky.social and @mmilkowski.bsky.social highlighting the research conducted by Marcin’s group:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
👉Check out the paper by @wikror.bsky.social and @mmilkowski.bsky.social highlighting the research conducted by Marcin’s group:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Many thanks to @mmilkowski.bsky.social and Przemysław Nowakowski for presenting their work in progress in our Digital Methods reading group today!
👉Check out the paper by @wikror.bsky.social and @mmilkowski.bsky.social highlighting the research conducted by Marcin’s group:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
👉Check out the paper by @wikror.bsky.social and @mmilkowski.bsky.social highlighting the research conducted by Marcin’s group:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
This paper, along with several other fascinating contributions, has just been published in the book “Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues” edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Highly recommended! And you can still view freely the final version of our chapter on Psyarxiv :)
With @mmilkowski.bsky.social we have just preprinted our draft on text mining for conceptual engineering! You can find the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
October 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM
This paper, along with several other fascinating contributions, has just been published in the book “Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues” edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Highly recommended! And you can still view freely the final version of our chapter on Psyarxiv :)
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Coming out soon🤩: “The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections”, edited by ROTO members Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and @afabregastejeda.bsky.social together with Gregory Radick. www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio
March 19, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Coming out soon🤩: “The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections”, edited by ROTO members Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and @afabregastejeda.bsky.social together with Gregory Radick. www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio
We’re doing it again, come to Warsaw in July for a week filled with ideas and amazing guests!!
We are super happy to announce our School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2024! Come to Warsaw to discuss the most exciting theories and ideas with neuroscientists & philosophers! We provide beautiful surroundings, great atmosphere and a lot of time to think together! nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-id...
February 21, 2024 at 1:28 PM
We’re doing it again, come to Warsaw in July for a week filled with ideas and amazing guests!!
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We are super happy to announce our School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2024! Come to Warsaw to discuss the most exciting theories and ideas with neuroscientists & philosophers! We provide beautiful surroundings, great atmosphere and a lot of time to think together! nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-id...
February 21, 2024 at 11:10 AM
We are super happy to announce our School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2024! Come to Warsaw to discuss the most exciting theories and ideas with neuroscientists & philosophers! We provide beautiful surroundings, great atmosphere and a lot of time to think together! nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-id...
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Our postdoc strike at Mount Sinai has now been going for a full week, which means a potential week of no wages. Please donate to our emergency fundraiser or share. Thank you for your support! t.co/Sxqyui9oXZ
Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW Strike
Support postdoctoral researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike
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December 13, 2023 at 11:49 AM
Our postdoc strike at Mount Sinai has now been going for a full week, which means a potential week of no wages. Please donate to our emergency fundraiser or share. Thank you for your support! t.co/Sxqyui9oXZ
With @mmilkowski.bsky.social we have just preprinted our draft on text mining for conceptual engineering! You can find the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 13, 2023 at 3:50 PM
With @mmilkowski.bsky.social we have just preprinted our draft on text mining for conceptual engineering! You can find the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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We are happy to announce the second Workshop of Ideas in 2024! On April 19-21th in Warsaw, we will discuss the origins of order in behaviour. Is instinct a useful term in modern neuroscience?
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
December 11, 2023 at 3:37 PM
We are happy to announce the second Workshop of Ideas in 2024! On April 19-21th in Warsaw, we will discuss the origins of order in behaviour. Is instinct a useful term in modern neuroscience?
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
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Join us for the hybrid next session of the "Philosophy of Cognitive Science" seminar on November 9th at 10:30 AM (Warsaw, CET). Our guest speaker will be Charles Rathkopf. We will discuss his fascinating paper draft, titled "Does AI vindicate functionalism." 1/2
November 2, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Join us for the hybrid next session of the "Philosophy of Cognitive Science" seminar on November 9th at 10:30 AM (Warsaw, CET). Our guest speaker will be Charles Rathkopf. We will discuss his fascinating paper draft, titled "Does AI vindicate functionalism." 1/2
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Join us live at Nencki - or online via Meets - on our first School of Ideas Journal Club! The aim of our journal club is to discuss theoretical and philosophical papers related to neuroscience and cognitive sciences. Contact us to get the link!
October 6, 2023 at 1:20 PM
Join us live at Nencki - or online via Meets - on our first School of Ideas Journal Club! The aim of our journal club is to discuss theoretical and philosophical papers related to neuroscience and cognitive sciences. Contact us to get the link!