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mpibrain.bsky.social
It’s #KavliPrize Week in Oslo! We’re so excited to see our Director, Erin Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social receive the Kavli Prize in #Neuroscience tomorrow!

@maxplanck.de @kavliprize.bsky.social
August 31, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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orensha.bsky.social
Memory isn't playback.

Neuroscience describes remembering as a reconstructive process, not the retrieval of a perfect recording.

Which makes the question stranger:

If memory is reconstructed, what would it actually mean to edit it?

PACKET_ANALYSIS::segment.002::MEMORY
August 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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maxplanck.de
"Memories last a lifetime, but they're built out of molecules that have very short lifetimes. So how do you get permanence in a system like that?" Meet Erin Schuman, the 2026 Kavli Prize Laureate in #Neuroscience & Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. @mpibrain.bsky.social
Local protein synthesis upended neuroscience | Erin Schuman - Kavli Prize Laureate portrait 2026
YouTube video by The Kavli Prize
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August 31, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Attention control ability is associated with frontoparietal control network interactions
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#neuroscience
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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August 31, 2026 at 1:09 PM
lovephilosophy.substack.com
🎙️ Molyneux's Enduring Question with Janet Levin and Brian Glenney: Going beyond the usual bounds of rationalist v empiricist to consider body and context #philsky #molyneux #longtermcolleagues #philosophyofmind #epistemic
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Molyneux's Enduring Question with Janet Levin and Brian Glenney
Janet & Brian have been discussing Molyneux's Problem for nearly 20 years, since Brian's PhD at USC. In this episode they help us understand why questions about perception matter so much right now.
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August 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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lydiamoland.bsky.social
Happy birthday Iris Murdoch--one of the fierce, playful, and brilliant metaphysical animals in this terrific book (I'm halfway through and loving it)

#philsky #biography
July 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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bradfield-neuro.bsky.social
If you think sophisticated behavioural design > cutting edge techniques for understanding the brain, you might enjoy my journal club article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Here I discuss Clayton & Dickinson's demonstration of episodic-like memories in scrub jays: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What scrub jays have taught us about the neural intersection of memory and action selection - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Journal Club, Laura Bradfield discusses a 1998 study showing that scrub jays exhibit episodic-like memory.
www.nature.com
July 7, 2026 at 1:38 AM
lovephilosophy.substack.com
🎙️Collaboration Across Art, Philosophy and the Sciences: Johannes (Yogi) Jaeger & Marcus Neustetter on The ZoNE with @perspectivestudio.bsky.social #thirdway #philsky #biology #art #philsci #paradoxis
The ZoNE is a collective in Vienna working beyond the usual bounds
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Collaboration Across Art, Philosophy and the Sciences: Johannes (Yogi) Jaeger & Marcus Neustetter on The ZoNE
Listen now (135 mins) | Life is paradox. Life is performance. Paradoxis is both.
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July 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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lumagoo.bsky.social
I could have sworn that Quine used the idiom of navigating a course between "the Scylla of x and the Charybdis of y" but an internet search tells me it was actually Fodor who was trying to "sail between the Scylla of a naive mentalism and the Charybdis of a vulgar behaviorism."

#PhilSky #Philosophy
July 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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smellosopher.bsky.social
It is out and OPEN ACCESS:
"The Senses: Perception and Experience"

(Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com)
#PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Senses
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses
www.cambridge.org
June 30, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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marcofacchin.bsky.social
Hi all
We are starting to post the videos of the "Beyond Computationalism" event on Youtube.
You can find them here www.youtube.com/@faridzahnoun1
#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
marcofacchin.bsky.social Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · Mar 31
Still two weeks to submit your abstract for our Beyond Neurocomputationalism workshop (Antwerp 4-5 June). Keynote Speakers include Kate Nave, Romain Brette, Vicente Raja, Matteo Mossio, Mazviita Chirimuuta & Alicia Juarrero!
Info below!
#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
July 14, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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thebjps.bsky.social
If you can't join us at our annual conference, you can at least watch the keynotes, which will be both livestreamed (link below) and later posted on our YouTube channel.

Abstract for the first talk in alt text and link to livestream here:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

#philsci #philsky
Presidential address Robin Hendry Metaphysics and Science: A Call for History 4pm, Tuesday 21 July (UK time) ABSTRACT. Scientists and philosophers down the ages have argued that there should be no overlap between science and metaphysics. Others have claimed, to the contrary, that science needs a foundation that only metaphysics can provide. I would challenge both these lines of thought, but the first is the main target of this talk. Consider the following claims, which are widely accepted: (1) The Universe was created in a great explosion whose effects remain visible; (2) Biological species are the product of a chancy process involving mutation and natural selection; (3) What happens in our minds is the outcome of neural processes. Not only are these all metaphysical (in a broad sense): scientific research is also relevant to them, even if they aren’t simple to decide. If we understand metaphysics broadly to be concerned with general and abstract questions of existence and reality, science is clearly concerned with metaphysics. But how good is science at answering metaphysical questions like these, and under what conditions? I address that question historically, by looking at two well-known failures (causal determinism and Newtonian mechanics; a claimed refutation of vitalism); and some important but neglected successes (the achievements of 19th-century chemistry). I conclude by arguing that metaphysical claims can be supported by science if they have had an active, intimate and indispensable heuristic and conceptual role in the development of science. Otherwise, it’s too soon to tell.
July 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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clpskuleuven.bsky.social
Are you interested in climate modeling & #ML? Sylvia Wenmackers is looking for a #philsci PhD student to examine #uncertainty & #causality in climate science 👇🌍🌡️

www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Apply by August 31 & please help us spread the word! #philsky #academicsky #MLsky #envhum #HPS
Three-dimensional rendering of the Earth showing the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean. A continuous blue-to-red color scale is mapped across the globe, with cooler colors concentrated at high northern latitudes and warmer colors over much of the tropics and subtropics. Land is shown as shaded gray topography with coastlines outlined in black, against a black background.
July 13, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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ywcath.bsky.social
My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Knowing What It Is Like
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like
doi.org
December 2, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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niccolonegro.bsky.social
Philosophers of mind (and adjacent): There's still time (until July 31st) to submit your abstract to the 4th @ispsm.bsky.social 's online conference. Information here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

#philsky #philmind
The 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
Call for Abstracts   The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to...
philevents.org
July 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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perspectivestudio.bsky.social
The Perspective Studio is proud to present our new collaboration with @lovephilosophy.substack.com

#paradoxis — join us as we explore paradox as praxis

Essay:
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Podcasts:
1. Love & Philosophy: youtu.be/1seivxDzTvQ
2. Zoom ZoNE: youtu.be/-NdhiJj9MoE
Paradoxis
join us as we explore paradox as praxis
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July 7, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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cailinmeister.bsky.social
Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1
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Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...
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July 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
Tim Crane ( @timcrane.bsky.social ) joined Rebecca Lowe on her podcast 'Working Definition' for a wide-ranging conversation on consciousness: what it is, why "conscious experience" is a bit of a redundant phrase, and why he's sceptical that LLMs are anywhere close to having it.

Listen👇️
#philsky
Working Definition episode 10: Consciousness, with Tim Crane
Listen now | the eleventh episode of my philosophy podcast!
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July 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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aaphilosophy.bsky.social
Congratulations to Kirsten Mann, Australian National University,
Winner of the 2026 Annette Baier Prize.
#PhilSky #AAPhilosophy
July 5, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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aaphilosophy.bsky.social
Congratulations to Krushil Watene,
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland,
winner of the 2026 Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize.
#AAPhilosophy #PhilSky
July 5, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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markrubin.bsky.social
"Social epistemology isn’t social. It’s not even epistemology. It’s an irresistible opening; at least, I failed to resist it."

Excellent work by @neillevy.bsky.social

Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/0020...

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ABSTRACT The social turn in epistemology was driven, in important part, by the recognition that we are dependent on testimony for much of our knowledge. But this dependence renders us vulnerable if we are unable to distinguish reliable testimony from unreliable. With the debate over echo chambers as a case study, I argue that social epistemology remains deeply individualist: it is driven by the search for individualistic foundations by reference to which we can assess testimony for and by ourselves. I argue that this search for individualistic foundations is a fantasy: our capacity to assess the reliability of evidence and informants is constituted by the dispositions that are constitutive of our echo chambers. Social epistemology must finally be truly social, and live with the vulnerability that comes from epistemic dependence.
July 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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jamestalarico.bsky.social
Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!
July 5, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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⭐️ new conversation with Atlantic journalist Elissa Strauss, author of When You Care. How she found philosophy through motherhood’s embodied realities, attention, and moments of union and estrangement. #Gilligan, #NelNoddings, #EvaKittay, Iris Murdoch, #SimoneWeil #unselfing #careethics
July 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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noemamag.com
“The world is not a machine. We have no dominion. We must learn to collaborate with the rest of nature, living & abiotic.”

—Stuart Kauffman
Emergence Is Not Engineering | NOEMA
The universe creatively sets the rules for its own becoming.
www.noemamag.com
July 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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perspectivestudio.bsky.social
We are collaborating with @lovephilosophy.substack.com on many fronts:
yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 27
RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116713305282040683

The Cyborg Myth: now also available on #loveandphilosophy!

https://lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/the-cyborg-myth

Why you can't replace your neurons with artificial devices and still be you.

Computational functionalism isn't logically […]
June 28, 2026 at 7:25 AM