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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · 19d

😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience

Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!

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Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind

This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The ris...

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · 23d

Our open access chapter “Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences” (with María Ferreira Ruiz, Marie I. Kaiser & @javiersuarez.bsky.social) is now published in Inductive Metaphysics (Routledge, 2025). Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences | 21 | Extrinsical

Potentialities are properties that can manifest. Many potentialities are instantiated in virtue of having causal bases that are possible causes for their

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003514404-21/causal-bases-potentialities-life-sciences-fabian-hundertmark-maría-ferreira-ruiz-marie-kaiser-javier-suárez?context=ubx&refId=575b46a7-46ca-438a-8512-f5ca1f71b93d

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Peter Schulte @peterschulte.bsky.social · 28d

Yes, that's an adequate one-word summary of the answer, I have to admit 🙂

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Peter Schulte @peterschulte.bsky.social · Aug 29

New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!

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Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese

Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

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Adrian Kind @philpsy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Finally reading @peterschulte.bsky.social Mental Content in my summer project to work through some Cambridge Elements. It is extremely well written: straightforward but nonetheless teaching important distinctions and arguments without unnecessary complexity.

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Peter Schulte @peterschulte.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated! Glad to hear that you find the Element useful 🙂

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Peter Schulte @peterschulte.bsky.social · Aug 29

New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese

Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

doi.org

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Karl Gustav Bergman @karlbergman.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU

Karl Gustav Bergman, Teleosemantics and universal hybridity - PhilPapers

According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Apr 14

Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
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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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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · Mar 24

New paper alert!
My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky

doi.org/10.1007/s108...

The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View - Journal for General Philosophy of Science

This paper argues that the so-called scaling-up problem (representation-hunger problem) can be resolved within the mechanistic framework of explanation. Emphasising the problem’s character as an empir...

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · Mar 28

The 253 most-cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (1) Rawls, A Theory of Justice; (2) Kripke, Naming and Necessity; (3) Parfit, Reasons and Persons; (4) Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; (5) Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · Mar 13

The updated version of the IIT-Concerned letter has now been published in NN, thanks to the herculean efforts of the corresponding authors (thank you!!!). Here's the link. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)

What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience

Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...

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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · Feb 28

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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Peter Schulte @peterschulte.bsky.social · Feb 28

You beat me to it 🙂Thanks for the endorsement!

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · Feb 28

Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions.

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Marc Artiga, Peter Schulte & Nir Fresco, Some Proper Functions are Distal - PhilPapers

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Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · Feb 16

🚀 NeuroExp 2025 goes live! 🧠🎥

Due to high demand, we’re streaming keynote lectures LIVE (Feb 19-21, #TUBerlin)!

📡 Livestream 🔗 link available on our website on the morning of the conference: www.merex-project.org/neuroexp2025

#CognitiveNeuroscience #philsky #philsci #cogsci

NeuroExp2025 | Merex

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 11

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Feb 4

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

We Can Make an Impact.

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Jan 18

Free download for two weeks

Explanation in Biology

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Explanation in Biology

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Marlo Paßler @passler.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thrilled to share a new preprint on Neurophenomenal Structuralism (NPS) by @adriendoerig.bsky.social & myself! We show why neural structures alone aren’t enough to capture conscious contents. We must consider computational context! (arxiv.org/abs/2412.20873). A Thread (1/15):

Neurophenomenal Structuralism and the Role of Computational Context

Neurophenomenal structuralism posits that conscious experiences are defined relationally and that their phenomenal structures are mirrored by neural structures. While this approach offers a promising ...

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