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I have a paper coming out in PPR! Pls check it out. (TL;DR in thread) philpapers.org/rec/RUBTOP
New metaphor for philosophy: you’re playing a card game but you and your opponent only know half the rules and neither is confident in how to keep score, but keeping score is really important (neither knows why)
How do people reason while still staying coherent – as if they have an internal ‘world model’ for situations they’ve never encountered? A new paper on open-world cognition (preview at the world models workshop at #ICML2025!)
I teach cognitive science and I picked up this book as an idle thing because I'm passively interested in design. I start reading and hold up, it's all cog sci!
this book taught me more about real design thinking than my 2 year industrial design masters program. it rewired how i saw doors, buttons, systems, everything. now i build digital interfaces, and it still shapes how i think. one of the most high signal books i’ve ever read.
8:00am: “time for a huge writing day; absolutely no distractions” 8:03am:
Just accepted: ‘Explaining Mechanism–Task Fit in Neuroscience’ – Aliya Rumana Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… #philsci
Forthcoming in Ergo, why we should ditch Williamson's 'heuristics' for counterfactuals: philpapers.org/archive/BERTRT… Thx to the editors for the smooth processing: your online submission system is cool!
Just accepted on the BJPS website: Jeffrey Barrett, Cailin O'Connor, Brian Skyrms, and Christian V Torsell ‘Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games’ Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… #philsci
From the new issue: Markus Eronen & Grant Ramsey ‘What Are the "Levels" in Levels of Selection?' Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… #philsci #philsky #hps #hpbio
77 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/44rfByX
You can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents. 👇ctan.org/pkg/coffeestai…
The paper is out: doi.org/10.1007/s11229…
My paper "Success atomism: the accuracy of episodic memory and its relevant elements" has been accepted for publication in Synthese. Please, check it out on my website. (1/4) josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html
In our new paper (open access in Phil. Studies), Albert Newen and me investigate the potential and limitations of multidimensional models of animal (and potentially AI) minds, many of which have been recently developed: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
New paper is live! It’s part of a symposium with Danielle Williams and Zoe Drayson. It’s open access, so you can actually read it. doi.org/10.1111/mila.1…
From the new issue: Marcus Arvan, Liam Kofi Bright & Remco Heesen ‘Jury Theorems for Peer Review’ Read it here (open access): journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… #philsci
For some reason these papers were just archived on philpapers, so I am sharing a link to the volume here. Excellent collection of essays and commentaries (incl. one by yours truly) on recent work in the philosophy of perception. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Debating laws of physics + metaphysics with my former PhD supervisor Barry Loewer on Theories of Everything @TOEwithCurt . Plenty of disagreements, but always learning!
Are the laws of physics governing forces or elegant summaries? In this deep and often humorous debate, Barry Loewer of Rutgers and Eddy Chen of UC San Diego clash over the very nature of physical reality. Are the laws of nature real, mind independent constraints that shape what’s…
five excellent talks from the NYU workshop on functions of consciousness last month. speakers: dylan ludwig (who also organized), joshua shepherd (@ERC_Conscious), @MatthiasMichel_, marisa carrasco (@carrasco_lab), and @axelcleeremans. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Every human that ever existed was an eyewitness to human evolution
A metaphysical interlude: Is the best of all possible worlds gunky and panpsychist? Daniel Giberman and I think that it might be! Check out our paper “Value in a Limitless World”, out now in Synthese. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
This is an excellent and very clear piece from Sergey Levine about the strengths and limitations of Large Language models. sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-mod…