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The unfathomable richness of seeing Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue here that seeing is more than this – it is unfatho...

The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

get yourself a supervisor who attends your concerts

You see this, post a concert pic you took

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Looks great, congrats to you all!

The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness
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#consciousness
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Philosophy job seekers: there is a 6-year postdoc in philosophy of language coming up at the University of Vienna. See advertisement here: philjobs.org/job/show/29670

My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770

Making movies into #philosophy again.

Citizen Kant

Mission: Impossible Worlds

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Dogmas

Saving Private Qualia

#philsky #science #cogsci #academia

We say: the cellular story is not the whole story about c., ie you probably need those interactions too. Still, without these low-level intra-cellular processes there's probably no consciousness et all, in both the contents and the global levels sense. That's why people should stop ignoring them.

It is 😉

Agreed, but there's also the separate line of evidence from biophysical modelling work on humans that supports DIT/AAT. Much more work is needed, hence the article.

The evidence is described in the article. And we mean both but mainly the latter.

morning mist

ABSTRACT. According to a widely held view, scientific modelling consists of entertaining a set of model descriptions that specify a model. Rather than studying the phenomenon of interest directly, scientists investigate the phenomenon indirectly via a model in the hope of learning about some of the phenomenon’s features. I call this view the description-driven modelling (DDM) account. I argue that although it is an accurate description of much of scientific research, the DDM account is found wanting as regards the mechanistic modelling found in many branches of biology. By analysing research practices in cancer immunology concerning the development of mechanistic models of the process of cancer metastasis, this article presents and argues for a complementary account of scientific modelling, herein called the experimentation-driven modelling (EDM) account. In EDM, scientists investigate a set of experimental systems and then integrate the results obtained from experiments into a mechanistic model. While EDM shares some key features with DDM, the two are epistemically very different approaches to research.

A Complementary Account of Scientific Modelling
– Martin Zach

Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans Our understanding of the neural basis of consciousness is mostly restricted to large-scale brain activity patterns as measured by methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magneto/electro-encephalography (M/EEG). In contrast, we lack even basic understanding of circuit-level mechanisms supporting consciousness – particularly in humans – despite the fundamental role that such mechanisms likely play in instantiating larger-scale brain activity patterns supporting conscious states and contents. Here, we review what progress has been made on circuit-level theories of consciousness (e.g., apical amplification theory, dendritic integration theory) and argue that such theories can be tested in humans using recently developed, state-of-the-art methods. Doing so will further facilitate translation of consciousness science into clinical settings and strengthen the bridge between circuit- and network-level theories of consciousness.

Online Now: Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans

Really happy this is out, and what a cool collab this was! Thanks esp. to Andy for being the spiritus agens, and to Carolina, my tandem writer.

#consci

So much looking forward to deep discussions of consciousness with Lukas!

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#consci

Call for papers: #PhiMiSci is inviting submissions for a Special Issue on Social Perception, understood as the perception of socially relevant properties in others. It is edited by Géraldine Carranante and Joulia Smortchkova.
Estimated publication date: 2nd quarter of 2027
Deadline: July 1st, 2026.

PLM Network workshop "Traces and Engrams: Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory"

RUB, 18-20 February 2026

Apply till 30 November

www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr...

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Visegrad Inspirations in the Philosophy of Science As part of the research project Analytic Philosophy in Visegrad Countries, the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica is pleased to announce a three-day workshop titled "Visegrad Inspirations ...

Yet another conference focusing on Central/East European philosophy of science:

"Visegrad Inspirations in the Philosophy of Science", in-person end of January 2026, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

deadline Dec 1, 2025

More info here:

philevents.org/event/show/1...
ff.osu.eu/ap-in-v4/wor...

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Philosophy of Science Association <div style="font-size: 40px;"><h1 class="fr-text">Philosophy of Science Around the World - 2025</h1></div>

Don't forget to register for PSA Around the World 2025! This year spotlights Eastern & Central Europe 🌍

📅 The conference will take place:
Thu, Nov 6 (3–6:15pm CET)
Fri, Nov 14 (3–6:15pm CET)
Sat, Nov 22 (3–6:30pm CET)
🔗 Register here:

#PhiMiSci published a new article in its special issue on structuralism: “Action Unity of Consciousness” by E. Schechter. It deals with the consequences of the split-brain phenomenon for the unity of consciousness and proposes a new kind of unity relation that may persist after split-brain surgery.

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I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid
"x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system".
But this does not follow.
A thread...

Soon... Registration still open!
#ImmunoSky #philbio #philsci
Link: pmpos.flu.cas.cz/host-microbe...

Due to many requests, we extended the deadline for the special issue 'Philosophy and the Chemosenses' to 1st November! Any philosophical issue related to smell / taste / flavour welcome, so submit away: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

How the Public Sees Philosophy: Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic (guest post) - Daily Nous What do ordinary people think philosophy is for? That's one of the questions a pair of philosophers, Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Zach (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) aimed to answer. ...

Here's a guest piece (credits to @vtgvzdk.bsky.social ) which draws on a report we wrote together for the Czech media (it may yet come out) regarding the results of a national representative survey we did on the issue of how #philosophy is perceived by the public.
dailynous.com/2025/09/03/h...

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#ESPP2025 here we come!

#Czechphilosophers

Let's be colleagues! Dept of Neuro at U of Lethbridge (Canada) is hiring a TT faculty: "with demonstrated excellence in research on brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals, employing a systems-level approach and utilizing state-of-the-art methods." uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

What Is "Good Attention"? Considering the ethics of attention with philosopher Sebastian Watzl

Attention activism. What is that supposed to be? Check out my chat with Graham Burnett on this, good attention (and bad attention) as well as some other topics: schoolofattention.substack.com/p/what-is-go...