Matteo Mameli

Oxford-Cambridge-London Philosophy of Medicine Society talk by Stephen John (University of Cambridge)

Join us for the Oxford-Cambridge-London Philosophy of Medicine Society talk by Stephen John (University of Cambridge)

🗓️ Friday 13 March 2026 3pm - 5pm
📍 In-Person, LSE Campus

Abstract: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

#Philosophy #Medicine #PhilSci #LSEPhilosophy @ox.ac.uk

Poster of event with photos of Lisa and Tim

Coming up soon: @timcrane.bsky.social and I talk #agency in beautiful Athens! Thanks @ellyvintiadis.bsky.social and @themispant.bsky.social for the invite #philpsy #philsky

Photo of a black book cover on a red surface. Title : Women and republicanism, edited by Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy.

Just arrived! This is the third volume @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social and I have worked on together 😎😊

Very well deserved!

Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works"

⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026.
📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way)
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anneli-jefferson/

I'll be talking about what blame is good for, functionalist explanation and consequentialist justifications in London next Monday. Come along if you're in town! #philsky

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler This form of amnesia is almost universal, but has long been overlooked.

Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you?

Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale.

time.com/7380496/why-...

great work by my colleague to be!

Although this was strongly written from the #philsci perspective, I hope it’ll be useful for #philtech, #sts, or #philsky in general. The ubiquity of simulations in natural/social science, medicine, policy/politics, should make them of at least some interest to anyone doing 21st century philosophy.

Book cover of “Organic Progress and Evolutionary Theory” by Silvia De Cesare in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

New Element in the #PhilBio series by Silvia De Cesare—free to download until March 2! De Cesare examines the thorny issue of 'evolutionary progress,' recounting the arguments against and in favor of cashing out this contested notion 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #philsky

This special edition of American Philosophical Quarterly commemorates Nicholas Rescher, former Center Director and Chairman of the Center.

The article includes contributions from Center Director Edouard Machery and former Center Director John Norton. #philsci

https://ow.ly/hsFo50YkkOw

#OTD 14 Feb. 1793: philosophical anarchist William Godwin published his celebrated love letter to the world, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in which he envisaged a society based on justice, equality, tolerance, benevolence, & mutual moral accountability. #Valentine’sDay #LoveThyNeighbour

I don’t know why but the US just loves detaining a significant portion of its residents. Once it was mental hospitals (558,922 in 1955). Then prisons. Now as the prison population starts to fall, concentration camps.

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

Utopia Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

academic.oup.com/book/62279

Time trends in the male to female ratio for autism incidence: population based, prospectively collected, birth cohort study Objectives To examine changes in the male to female ratio in diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) over a 35 year period, providing temporal trends in diagnosis (incidence rate), the male to fem...

www.bmj.com/content/392/... Autistic girls & women: By age 20, they were diagnosing pretty much equal numbers of men & women.
Huge study, whole population of Sweden born 1985-2020.
Not 1 in 10.
Not 1 in 4.
Not 1 in 3.
Equal numbers, just about.

100 years of research, most based on the wrong info.

Just out: Natania Meeker on the role of femininity in French materialist philosophy, as it developed in the eighteenth century. A fine account of women writers who weren't, strictly speaking, philosophers but who recentered pleasure in philosophical terms.

For example. Today I watched this talk on "skilled seemings" to try to understand my experience of bird-watching. Skilled seemings are when things appear to you as a result of expert knowledge, they stand in contrast to ordinary seemings. Neat distinction. #philsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vM...

Really looking forward to reading and reviewing the latest by the great @hdrochon.bsky.social

A very fine octopus encountered at Fly Point (Australia) today. Like an old battleship.

New paper (pre-print) out w/ @twigtechnology.bsky.social : Why don’t all animals use tools? If you’re into critters, game theory, cyborgs, tech, and/or the glories of the natural world, do give it a whirl 🐛🐇🛠️🧰

The British Philosophical Association has launch a new annual prize competition to celebrate the best of British Philosophy: bpa.ac.uk/prizes/. #philosophymatters

and that it is only here and there that the fabric of scientific knowledge betrays any rents.
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I’ve had my qualms about Trivers already when it was about evolution.

Promotional poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The poster features a dark green background with stylized yellow and red floral illustrations around the edges. Large yellow text announces the workshop title. The event will take place 18–19 June at UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers listed are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), Enara García (SDU), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). The poster highlights a Call for Abstracts (CfA) with an extended deadline of 1st February. Contact information is provided at xivpbcs@gmail.com

Final days to submit an abstract to #PBCS2026! If you are an early-career scholar looking for a supportive environment to discuss your work & meet international peers, consider applying! Another plus this year: The workshop will be in Madrid! sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... #HPbio #philsci #philsky

Slime Mould and Philosophy Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Slime Mould and Philosophy

Although I was not given funding to publish this OA, if anyone (or any one that you know) would like a pdf of the book, shoot me a message. I'd be more than happy to send it your way. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

This! Thanks @kevinlala.bsky.social

PhD Scholarship

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.

An amazing collection of primary sources on how science is represented and how these representations evolved #histsci #philsci #hps