Evan Westra

Jake Paul is now Wykeham Professor of Logic

"tech crunch" lol

uhhh, what the hell?!

I know several instructors who are looking at the spate of professors getting fired for how they've tried to handle right wing op students being racist or sexist for viral clout and deciding it's time to leave before finding out that their university will sell them out too

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I get accused of cockeyed optimism from time to time and it’s not totally unfair.

but I am very pessimistic about the ability of red state publics to maintain either academic integrity or academic quality while the primary concern of their boards and legislatures is culture war.

Woke Wars: The Empire Cancels Back

The beginning of Dune, when the Emperor sends the Atreides to govern Arrakis and then conspires with the Harkonnens to overthrow them.

Professor: Texas used to have universities Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...

My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.

www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

an app for Outlook that filters journal rejections sent during evenings, weekends, and holidays into a separate email purgatory, so you don't have to see that alert pop up on your phone while you're chilling, and then it releases the email when it's a more appropriate time for that sort of thing

How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world - Nature Reviews Psychology Reasoning about minds and reasoning about physical objects are governed by two distinct systems. In this Perspective, Liu et al. review research from developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscienc...

New perspective paper (w/ @sedaakbiyik.bsky.social, Joseph Outa, & @minjaek.bsky.social ) in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ⚽💭🧠👶 : www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"changes no philosophic kitty litter"

• Bing Al Overview The "Vienna circle" likely refers to Vienna's historic Ringstrasse cafes, such as Café Schwarzenberg and Café Landtmann, which are located along the famous city boulevard. These are traditional Viennese coffee houses, known for their elegant atmosphere, history, and as important social and intellectual hubs.

AI for the win again

Sure!

Thanks Keith!

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Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17
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We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!

Watch Honest Review of Perspectives on Pragmatism Book on Amazon Live Dive into the world of pragmatism with The Munro’s! Discover why this book's unique perspective, from classical to contemporary, is a must-read for curious minds and project seekers.

Shamelessly nicked from Kris McDaniel over on Facebook: the book review that will make your weekend.

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

My guess: if Trump had been aggressive, he could have won points with his base by appearing to stand up to him; if the meeting went well (as it did), then he gets Trump off his back for a while, and that helps him govern. So maybe he saw it as a win-win?

SCOOP: The Computational Theory of Mind is in the Epstein Files.

Tabby cat sitting on the arm of a couch looking over her shoulder towards the camera

This is my cat Tilly. Happy birthday!

Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026

Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!

Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

Gifts for the intellectually curious For three days only — November 19th, 20th, and 21st — enjoy 40% off a selection of books that exemplify the spirit of curiosity and inquiry at the heart of the MIT Press.

Somebody Should Do Something and a bunch of other cool looking MIT Press books are 40% off today through the end of the week!

mitpress.mit.edu/collections/...

Inferentialists! Now is your time to act!!! The era of Verstand must be ended. We shall now proceed to construct the order of Vernunft!

🤖 NEW PAPER 🤖 : @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's new paper 'AI empiricism: the only game in town?' is forthcoming in 'The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies' (Routledge).

Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1939

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

The attention market—and what is wrong with it - Philosophical Studies Attention is described as a “scarce commodity” that is traded in “a marketplace.” This, it is further claimed, contributes to a “widespread sense of attentional crisis.” But is there really an attenti...

What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

always a fun conference!

new motor control task just dropped: putting on pants