Wiktor Rorot

Applications are still open!

We’re waiting for the applications to the School of Ideas in Neuroscience only until Monday!! Come hang out, it’s always fun

Applications are open for another week, do not miss out!!

Poster for the School of Ideas in Neuroscience, it depicts a multiplied white vintage scientific diagram (voltage changes in different potassium and chloride concentrations) on a grainy yellow-green (with a tint of red) gradient. The text includes the name and dates of the school, as well as the list of confirmed guests: Angie Salles, Nedah Nemati, Philip Haueis, Axel Cleeremans, Detlev Arendt, Sara Solla, Jonathan Whitlock, and the list of sponsors.

We’ve just opened the applications for this year’s School of Ideas in Neuroscience which will happen September 8-13 in Warsaw, Poland! We have an exciting lineup of guests and all we need now is some participants, so consider joining us and sharing the invitation :)
nenckiopenlab.org/the-school-o...

So exciting!! I wish I could comeeee

Last year we met in the beautiful Dolomites to talk about “naturalistic” behaviour - now the brilliant organizers have put together a preprint which summarizes those discussions. Very much recommended! It definitely changed how I think about behaviour

The open access version of A Drive to Survive is now available to download for free!

direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

(If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*)

- also it has way less typos.

Cognitive offloading and the causal structure of human action - Synthese The hypothesis of extended cognition (HEC) casts human cognition as constitutively dependent on its bodily and environmental context. Drawing on recent empirical work on ‘cognitive offloading’, HEC’s ...

Really cool paper on how to think of actions involved in extended cognition (finally somebody putting philosophy of action to a good use): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exciting mail day! I received two new books with my contributions. In the volume on Conceptual Engineering, edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk, I co-authored a chapter with my PhD student @wikror.bsky.social on predictive understanding, using empirical evidence from scientific writing and peer review. 1/2

A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.

Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!

When AI Systems Fail: A Personal Account of the Crisis at Poland’s Leading Philosophy Institute As the Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), I find myself in an unprecedented situation. Our institute, on…

I realized that there was no story in English that would explain what happened to my institute, so I decided to write up this blog entry, which shows how low-quality AI systems fail to assess research quality: marcinmilkowski.pl/2024/11/20/w...

Many thanks to @mmilkowski.bsky.social and Przemysław Nowakowski for presenting their work in progress in our Digital Methods reading group today!

👉Check out the paper by @wikror.bsky.social and @mmilkowski.bsky.social highlighting the research conducted by Marcin’s group:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

This paper, along with several other fascinating contributions, has just been published in the book “Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues” edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Highly recommended! And you can still view freely the final version of our chapter on Psyarxiv :)

Coming out soon🤩: “The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections”, edited by ROTO members Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and @afabregastejeda.bsky.social together with Gregory Radick. www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio

We’re doing it again, come to Warsaw in July for a week filled with ideas and amazing guests!!

We are super happy to announce our School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2024! Come to Warsaw to discuss the most exciting theories and ideas with neuroscientists & philosophers! We provide beautiful surroundings, great atmosphere and a lot of time to think together! nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-id...

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Our postdoc strike at Mount Sinai has now been going for a full week, which means a potential week of no wages. Please donate to our emergency fundraiser or share. Thank you for your support! t.co/Sxqyui9oXZ

And what’s more, such concepts may be useful for current debates - as we argue predictive understanding is for explainable AI!

We argue that when discussing “understanding” in phil sci and epistemology philosophers have overlooked its predictive aspect - one that practitioners of science refer to systematically. Text mining allows the discovery of concepts and enables a broad look on how they’re used.

We introduce methodological basics of digital philosophy and show how they tie (in our view seamlessly!) with broader practices of conceptual engineers, and then provide a proof-of-principle.

With @mmilkowski.bsky.social we have just preprinted our draft on text mining for conceptual engineering! You can find the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are happy to announce the second Workshop of Ideas in 2024! On April 19-21th in Warsaw, we will discuss the origins of order in behaviour. Is instinct a useful term in modern neuroscience?
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order

I am looking for examples of corpus-based digital humanities approaches in philosophy of science. Please help! #philsci

And (shameless plug)we’re also moving in this direction for philosophy of cognitive science with @mmilkowski.bsky.social in Warsaw

Highly recommend the work of Charles Pence, Christophe Malaterre and @wileyprof.bsky.social for corpus studies in phil bio!

A symbolic analogy between brains and AI

Join us for the hybrid next session of the "Philosophy of Cognitive Science" seminar on November 9th at 10:30 AM (Warsaw, CET). Our guest speaker will be Charles Rathkopf. We will discuss his fascinating paper draft, titled "Does AI vindicate functionalism." 1/2

Join us live at Nencki - or online via Meets - on our first School of Ideas Journal Club! The aim of our journal club is to discuss theoretical and philosophical papers related to neuroscience and cognitive sciences. Contact us to get the link!

The representational solution is likely not restricted to language - key example that comes to mind would be cognitive maps and route planning. I’m not sure if there’s a good story of route planning that doesn’t involve representations?

We are super happy to announce our first Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! During this event, inspired by the spirit of our School of Ideas, we will discuss naturalistic behaviors: what do we fail to see when we head-fix our mouse? And when it's fine?