Susanna Schellenberg

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I learnt a huge amount and very much enjoyed this event at Bochum. Many thanks to the wonderful people at Bochum for organizing and special thanks to Julia Wolf, Ayoob Shahmoradi, Sara Papić, and Max Minden Riberio for the excellent talks. philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/2025/11/...

Jordan Scott, The Rational Method - PhilPapers Performances, epistemic and practical, can be understood as having aims and methods which jointly determine whether the performance was successful. In this paper, I advance a novel, structural account...

Excellent new paper by Jordan Scott forthcoming in AJP. This paper was a core chapter of his recently defended dissertation. philpapers.org/rec/SCOTRM-2

Pleased to share new work with @sflippl.bsky.social @eberleoliver.bsky.social @thomasmcgee.bsky.social & undergrad interns at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA.

Algorithmic Primitives and Compositional Geometry of Reasoning in Language Models
www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15987

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I think you already speak several languages, so you are good!

Want a younger brain? Learn another language A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.

Sea urchins are mostly brains in a spiky shell? Soo cool! 🤯
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Open-weight models are becoming increasingly capable while creating risks beyond those that already exist for closed-weight models.
To continue benefiting from the advantages of open-weight models, we must develop risk mitigation methodologies specifically for them, as discussed in this paper.

And it was as enjoyable as the first half!

Since my interview with Richard Brown abruptly ended after an hour, we did another one. This one is less free-floating than the first and includes a lot of discussion of representation, content, and the like. As someone in the chat commented dryly, “Endless discussions about semantics”.

Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg -Consciousness Live! S8 e5 YouTube video by onemorebrown

Enjoyed this interview with @onemorebrown.bsky.social. We discuss #perception, #AI, #perspectives, #capacities, @neddo.bsky.social, #Fodor, #Chomsky, the performance/competences distinction, the relation between capacities and representational states, and much else. www.youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...

Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg YouTube video by onemorebrown

Next up on Consciousness Live! -Susanna Schellenberg later today at 2 pm!

youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...

Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg YouTube video by onemorebrown

About to do a live podcast. Wish me luck. youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...

Congratulations to Jordan Scott for defending what was allegedly just one dissertation, but in fact was two: one in the philosophy of race, and one in epistemology. He is now off to Oxford for a three-year postdoc, and will be much missed here at Rutgers.

What do you think he means with "you have to dive down ... and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you"?

From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.

Deadline for submission is on Dec. 15.

CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...

Congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta for winning the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”.

It’s like watching a couple who waited too long to get divorced.

DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...

It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(via Bernard Kobes)

oh wow wow wow. Wow.

It's officially out, after many years:

"Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"

authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...

Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.

Relational Moral Demands Abstract. Relational moral theories hold that at least some moral demands are grounded in a relation between individuals. But how should this relation be u

Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.

My Neural Mechanisms Online talk 'Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits' takes place on Monday April 28th - 7am for me, more civilized hours for most of the rest of you! Responses from Gualtiero Piccinini and Edouard Machery.
www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...

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.

Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor - Nature A standard commercial CMOS FET can exhibit synaptic-like long-term potentiation and depression or neuron-like leaky-integrate-and-fire and adaptive frequency-bursting behaviour when biased in a specif...

The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...