Thanks for the wonderful talk, Tobi! Great having you out!

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.

“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

Enjoyed talking with Benjamin Kuper-Smith about: philosophy of science, mechanism, explanation, and career topics for his BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #HPS
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Check out other great episodes too!
www.buzzsprout.com/1390924/epis...

Check out our chapter (led by @beakr.bsky.social) on cognitive ontology here! : philpapers.org/archive/KRIC...

We propose a developmental approach to 'cognitive homologies' –– (cognitive capacities that are "the same across species") –– as a means for carving up cognition.

Our approach adopts...

Another great summer development program at UCI LPS @ucisocsci.bsky.social
#philsci #philsky #HPS

The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work

I had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week.

We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.

Danielle Thomsen's (@daniellethomsen.bsky.social) The Money Signal will change how you think about the function of money in US elections. A must-read! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Assistant Professor opening at University of California, Irvine | @mathpsych.org #iccmpsyched mathpsych.org/page/news/131

Great paper by Jacqueline Wallis @jwallis1.bsky.social on dirty mice! 🐁🐀 #philsci #philsky #HPS

"Here I draw on a recent movement...use of what are often called “dirty mice” – to challenge the standard view that less controlled experiments have diminished epistemic power."

Join us in San Diego this November for #MCCS25, including 16 X research talks and the MCCS debate.

Invited faculty speakers are announced below. Half of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Registration is open:

Enjoyed giving a keynote at CogSci 2025! 🧠 🖥️ 🌉@cogscisociety.bsky.social ‬ #CogSci2025 #philsci #philsky #HPS

Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust

“The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro

Congratulations to Jessica Lauman-Lairson for defending her excellent dissertation on "A Middle-Range Account of Analogical Inference" 🎉
Jeff Barrett and I co-advised, w Kyle Stanford on her committee! @ucisocsci.bsky.social‬

Check out her new Synthese pub here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Salih Can Özdemir, who completed his master’s degree in our lab and is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected as a Graduate Student Representative on the Cognitive Science Society Board! @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Brilliant keynote by @laurennross.bsky.social at #cogsci2025 on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! 🙏

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Congratulations to Dr. Ben Santos Genta for a terrific dissertation defense! 🎉 Ben has a Sloan Foundation Postdoc grant for work on Metascience & AI at NYU's Philosophy Department.

Shown celebrating with his proud co-advisors! 😊 @cailinmeister.bsky.social

Check out his work: benjamingenta.com

We kick off #EmbracingComplexity with the inimitable @laurennross.bsky.social explaining two key aspects of emergence that cause philosophical and scientific challenges. Challenges we hope to tackle!

@ifisc.uib-csic.es @rherzoga.bsky.social

Love this!

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Giving a talk in the UCI Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) series today at 11am PST! @ucirvine.bsky.social 🧠X➡️Y

Title: Bridging Philosophy and Neuroscience to Support Clarity About Causation

Abstract and virtual login at link below.
cnlm.uci.edu/scientific-a...

I also think we need to unpack what it means to say we have “understanding”. What would it take for you to say we understand something at all? A worry about claims to get more causal info is that it can drive us to be endlessly reductive in ways that are unhelpful, less practical & less explanatory.

Well if causal verbs are being used to describe mere correlations, then they certainly shouldn’t be used. But it seems like we can also know of causal connections and use causal verbs without the (vaunted) know all details about a system. I like this mechanism point…lol