Tom Marvan 🇪🇺

Introducing Philosophy Corner - Tim S. Meese, Pascal Mamassian, Isabelle Mareschal, Frans A.J. Verstraten, 2025

Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I guess it's the lack of the sense of community that bugs me, not having a sort of academic home. Philosophers of science have that. Having associations, conferences and journals are a means of building this community.

Thanks, these are good points. My intuitions are similar, but perhaps there are arguments for some form of purely linguistic self-awareness. I want to be open about this.

Thanks. I didn't mean to say we have nothing. But it's scattered all over and mixed with other fields. I still think we could do better.

CfP: The Psychophysical Adventure. From Wolff to Behaviorism, eds. Chiara Russo Krauss and Giuseppe Guastamacchia

www.disciplinefilosofiche.it/en/disciplin...

Deadline Jan 16

#philmind

This is cool and right on the money. The right question vis a vis artificial systems, esp. LLMs, is not 'Do they have phenomenal states?' but 'Can they have some sort of self-awareness even without phenomena states?'

It just occured to me that we philosophers of mind are not so good in organising ourselves. Compare: philosophers of science have dedicated associations, conferences and a number of prominent journals. What have we got?

I am at a talk, will send you references/quotations from my guy later.

I am told (by an expert) that the notion of unconscious inference in perception does not originally come from von Helmholtz but from .... Arthur Schopenhauer!

BLack and white picture of FEyerabend with names of authors in the issue

New Special Issue of #HOPOS on Paul Feyerabend.

Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers.

Link to the special issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...

A picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.

Oxford Hume Forum – Appropriations of Hume

- two b2b workshops at our Institute this Friday and Saturday

more info here: www.flu.cas.cz/en/?view=art...

A meeting with Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social this Thursday at our Institute. We will talk about the alignment of neural activity and LLM vector spaces. All welcome - on-site or online!

We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.

The University of Münster (main building)

🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de!
Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster

I have a PhD project open for application about "Habituation of Paramecium, the “swimming neuron”" on the DIM C-Brains programme, for a PhD in Paris. Open for students with a Master outside France. Get in touch if interested!
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...

Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

#hps #philsci

Hume in Dialogues: Alter a person’s brain ever so slightly, and you might transform a tyrant into a saint.

Isn't this Phineas Gage in reverse - a full 100 years before the Gage incident? Hume new more of neuroscience than I tend to imagine he knew...

#philmind #DavidHume #PhineasGage

It was a really cool workshop, I learned a lot. And it was cool to have you folks in CZ!

The Attention in Contemporary Consciousness Science workshop was exactly the kind of meeting I needed to start understanding how my PhD connects with my main research topic: consciousness. My talk was warmly debated, and I had a great time in Pilsen. Thanks, Michal Polak and @tmarvan.bsky.social !

The Latin nerd in me protests that the show should have been called "Unum", not "Pluribus" - apart from that, so far it's really very good!

I'm very much looking forward to our "Mathematical Phenomenology: Synergies and Connections" workshop tomorrow!

👉 www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... #consci

A huge thank you to our speakers and my co-organisizer @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social in advance!

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Learned recently that Gerd Gigerenzer appears in a 1974 Volkswagen Golf ad - and with a banjo, no less!

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

We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇

This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)

Applications are now open!

www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

Starting the last day of PSA Around the World Central and Eastern Europe with a session on scientific understanding. @henkderegt.bsky.social is the first plenary speaker on understanding by an artificial system

Tomorrow, 22 November is the final of three meetings of PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.

Very exciting news to share! Me and @davidcolaco.bsky.social published a target article in BBs on metabolism and cognition! We argue that models of cognition should incorporate metabolism - either to evaluate if existing models are biologically plausible, or to generate new models (1/3)

Hi Adrian, actually you are on the schedule today from 5:35 to 5:55 PM CET.

Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference

💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes"

💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"