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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · Sep 6

I wonder how much disagreement comes from some folks interpreting “X does Y” as “X only does Y and Y is only done by X”, while others interpret it as “X is an important part of the Y process”?

I suspect some, but not all.

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well?
We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics.
📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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JJ @jjodx.bsky.social · 25d

The myth of optimality in human movement science

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The myth of optimality in human movement science

The concept of optimality dominates contemporary human movement science, with researchers across biomechanics, motor control, and neuroscience routine…

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 22d

New book— just got my copy! I know people often don’t read book chapters but I think that’s a mistake. They are usually much more reflective and wide ranging than journal articles.

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 18h

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 18h

#73 In the Belly of a Paradox with author Parker Palmer ❣️ Love is in listening 📚 Palmer says paradox is a “survival concept”, an idea that feels especially helpful right now. He also says love may be what is holding us even when we cannot feel it. #loveandphilosophy #meaning #hope #courage #podcast

In the Belly of a Paradox with Parker Palmer

after 86 years on this planet, Parker knows something about surviving trying times

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 15d

❣️ Episode #72 From Bacteria to Bach, Widening the Circle of Care with N. Katherine Hayles: "I think it's a misunderstanding of that book to say that it is urging us to embrace the posthuman...." #cognitive #philsky #lit #planetary #podcast www.loveandphilosophy.com

#72 Bacteria to Bach: Widening the Circle of Care

Listen now | A Planetary Cognitive Ecology with Kate Hayles, the podcast audio file

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 24d

#71 Dialectic, Democracy & the Phenomenology of Double Consciousness with philosopher Lucius Outlaw #dialectic #democracy #doubleconsciousness #philsky #webdubois

Phenomenology & Double Consciousness

Listen now | W. E. B. Du Bois, MLK Jr., Erich Fromm and Alfred Schütz with philosopher Lucius Outlaw Jr.

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 26d

Loving and Knowing is one of my favourite philosophy papers of recent years. Listen to the pod then read the paper.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 26d

Asked two senior philosophers I admire for some reading suggestions and both replied the same day with detailed, thoughtful guidance. And just read an excellent PhD thesis in hermeneutical injustice. Our field has so much to love. #PhilSky

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 28d

The song exploder episode 🎤 open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...

Fractal Rubik's Cubes & the Big Machine

Listen now | Episode #70 with the one and only Michael Garfield

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Bloomsbury Philosophy @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Out today - did you 'notice'?

Noticing by @ZiyadMarar unwinds the tangles of noticing in a world replete with distractions, interruptions and, at times, horror.

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Noticing

What does it mean to 'notice' something? To really see it. In his exhilarating quest to help us notice better, Ziyad Marar poses a deceptively simple question:…

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · Aug 30

❣️The Philosophy of #Bioregionalism with landscape architect & gardener Félix de Rosen. A discussion about the power of tending to challenges rather than trying to solve them, #gardens as complex #systems (no need for labels), and why it helps to find people who will #care with you #loveandphilosophy

The Philosophy of Bioregionalism with Félix de Rosen

Listen now | maybe we don't need to solve the world, maybe we just need to tend to it

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Aug 28

This issue's Editors' Choice paper:

Inference to the Best Contradiction?
– Sam Baron

Abstract in alt text or read it for free here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky

ABSTRACT. I argue that there is nothing about the structure of inference to the best explanation (IBE) that prevents it from establishing a contradiction in general, though there are some potential limitations on when it can be used for this purpose. Studying the relationship between IBE and contradictions is worthwhile for three reasons. First, it enhances our understanding of IBE. We see that, in many cases, IBE does not require explanations to be consistent, though there are some cases where consistency may be required. Second, the argument has implications for the debate over scientific realism. Many scientific theories appear to be inconsistent. The best argument for scientific realism, however, appeals to IBE. My argument thus shows that a certain kind of realist faces a threat from inconsistent theories. Third, the argument is important for dialetheism. Dialetheists maintain that some contradictions are true. Many of the arguments in favour of dialetheism appeal to explanatory considerations. What I say here provides support for defending dialethism using an IBE-based methodology.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4

The abstract of "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto", available at the posted link.

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just accepted:

Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: The Case of Compelled Assent
– Kirsten Walsh, Adrian Currie & Tom Roberts

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:

#philsci #philsky #hps

ABSTRACT. The early moderns surely didn’t defend an embodied, extended, embedded, or enacted conception of the mind, but we aim to show that this perspective can make sense of some of their practices; in particular, the epistemology of early modern experimentation. Focusing on Newton’s early optical work, we argue that the epistemic warrant he claims for his experimental results turns crucially on how the experimenter is situated towards gaining particular kinds of maker’s knowledge. Our account provides one answer to a long-standing puzzle regarding Newton’s method: his appeal to ‘compelled assent’ as an epistemic standard. We thus provide both a novel interpretation of Newton’s epistemology and a proof of concept towards applying tools from contemporary philosophy of mind to the history of science.

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Aug 26

We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.

Ecological Perspectivism: Understanding Perspectival Realism through Ecological Psychology - PhilSci-Archive

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · Aug 27

Excited to find this, looking forward to sharing. Also wonder if it connects with rdcu.be/eCDG5

Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Aug 27

Perspectival Realism + Ecological Psychology = Ecological Perspectivism

"Science offers knowledge of reality in terms of affordances, which are relational to the instruments and abilities of scientific communities."

#PhilSci #PsycSci

Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Aug 26

We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.

Ecological Perspectivism: Understanding Perspectival Realism through Ecological Psychology - PhilSci-Archive

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · Aug 27

Fascinating! Have not read this and just hearing about it but perhaps there are some places to join forces with this —Radical Relation at any Scale, where ecological and perspectival meet rdcu.be/eCDG5

Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating

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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Partnering with Nature: Toward an Intelligence Rooted in Symbiosis

What if we’re going about Artificial General Intelligence all wrong?

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Aug 23

Watch our calendar!

Center events are about to begin for the Fall semester.

Be sure to follow our calendar to check out when they are!

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The Center for Philosophy of Science - Home

The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh fosters the emergence of the best, new work in philosophy of science.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Philosophy of Medicine online reading group is resuming this fall on October 8!

For more information/to suggest a book (your book?) for the group to read, join @: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

#philsci #philmed #bioethics

Please share widely, especially if the group has been helpful to you.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Aug 24

Jorge Luis Borges was born OTD in 1899.

“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”

🦋🦫🌱🗃️🧠 #PhilSci #PhilSky

Caricature of Borges by Maringa Parana-Brasil.

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · Aug 23

✐ new paper Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale rdcu.be/eB3nG #phil #mind

Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating

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