CAIC @ Purdue

“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look!
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The next CAIC Brown Bag Series features Taylor Davis who will be discussing and presenting a proposal for a new project titled 'Norms in the Scientific Image' 🧬🦠🧫

New Publication! Purdue grad student, Nesim Aslantatar's paper titled 'A new problem of evil?' is out now in Religious Studies. 🤖

Find the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Philosophy grad student, @gibbonitathought.bsky.social has a new publication out now in Philosophical Psychology! 🦍 👶Check out the abstract and then read the whole paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Highlights from Samantha Ooley's talk: Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyian Model 🎲

Purdue grad student Samantha Ooley will be workshopping a talk titled 'Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyan Model' at the CAIC workshop this Friday! ✏️🎲

This Tuesday David Thorstad from Vanderbilt University will be joining the mind and cognition research group to present their paper "Ecological rationality without externalism”. Read the abstract below!

Purdue is doing something about books! Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, & Dan Kelly combine compelling stories with science to explore how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive the big structural change needed to tackle systemic issues. 📖 🥳

-Cristina Farmus, VP of Purdue

Happening tomorrow in the philosophy department!

This Friday Kristian Gonzalez Barman (University of Ghent) and Stuart Glennan (Butler University) will join the Mind & Cognition Research Group in the philosophy department to present their work 'The New Science of Artificial Intelligence' 🤖 Read the abstract below:

@sarahrobins.bsky.social and Kathryn Maxson Jones are heading to the gulf for DSPN ☀️🌴 Sarah will be talking about deciding & remembering and Kathryn will be talking about the giant squid axon as the history of neuroscience keynote! 🦑

Moral illusions When one fails to have an accurate moral percept, a defect in character is often invoked. Little attention has been given to a certain kind of inaccurate moral percept – namely moral illusions – an...

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New Publication! Maria Waggoner's paper 'Moral illusions' is forthcoming in @journalphp.bsky.social 🥳 Maria argues that we should rethink our conception of the ideal virtuous person and suggests alternative moral resources which a virtuous person could use to navigate cases of moral illusions. 📄👇

New Publication! @evanwestra.bsky.social's paper
'Belief in Social Cognition' is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief 🥳 Evan argues that belief plays a modest role, rather than a central role, in everyday social cognition. Abstract here: philpapers.org/rec/WESBIS

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Standing room only at the fascinating morning workshop! 🐜🐜🐜

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New publication from @sarahrobins.bsky.social on memory traces! Her paper is featured in the newly published book 'Space, Time, & Memory' which includes contributions from a diverse and interdisciplinary range of authors across Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy 🥳 Link below!

Thanks so much to Mark Moffett for giving two talks in one day! One thing is for sure: we now know A LOT about ants 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking

Why AI needs Cog Sci 🤝 (including philosophers!): "The cognitive sciences...teach us that intelligence is about more than mere statistical mimicry." 👀
Check out Gary Marcus's insightful and timely new think piece discussing the relation between CS and AI. 🧠 🎂 🤖

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

✏️ 2 publications out in the current issue of Mind & Language 📄 Both engage the concept of 'medium independence.' @okaydaniellle.bsky.social argues that different concepts are being thrown around & @coreymaley.net argues we should get right of MI altogether: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680017...

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@sarahrobins.bsky.social will be heading to The University of Mississippi for a philosophy forum titled 'Philosophy Meets the Life Sciences' on September 5th! She'll be presenting some of her recent work on memory during her talk titled "Memory Traces & Engrams, Minds & Brains" 🧠

Interview with the Authors of Somebody Should Do Something (Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly) About the Author Michael Brownstein is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Jay College and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of The Implicit Mind. Alex Madva...

A written interview with the Sociology Group

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Check out more about in on our book webpage!

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🚨 New Book Alert 🚨 @dryan149.bsky.social's new book 'Somebody Should Do Something' is available for preorder. Dr. Kelly and his co-authors show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think.

Mark Moffett from the Smithsonian will be stopping by the Mind & Cognition Research group during his visit to Purdue on September 5th. We're looking forward to welcoming him to the philosophy department!