@mmilkowski.bsky.social
Philosopher of cognitive science, who also does some NLP
A finnish guy looking happy, by finnish standards
@erc.europa.eu has decided to fund my research on how AI is transforming scientific problem-solving! #erc www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life...
09.12.2025 16:06 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci
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This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Theorizing the Mind: Creating a Functional Atlas of Scientific Theories Marcin Miłkowski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences Have you ever wondered how scientists come up with theories about how our minds work or what’s happening in our brains? From understanding how we learn and remember, to explaining emotions, to developing treatments for mental health conditions, scientific theories are the essential roadmaps that guide discovery. But what makes a scientific theory in these fields a good one? And how can we make sure scientists are building the best possible theories to help us understand ourselves and improve our lives? Our Goal: Our goal is to create the first systematic map of the different jobs that scientific theories do when studying the brain and mind. Just like a builder needs different tools for different tasks (a hammer isn’t great for sawing wood!), scientists use different kinds of theories for different purposes – some are for classifying things, others for predicting what will happen, and some for explaining why things happen. Our project will provide a clear guide to what makes each type of theory effective and trustworthy for the job it's designed to do. What We'll Be Doing: Think of us as cartographers looking at how science itself works deep down. We will: ● Study Real Science in Action: We'll look closely at how theories are actually used and developed in leading research on the brain and mind. This involves careful philosophical thinking combined with looking at examples from scientific practice. ● Analyze Scientific Language: Using modern computer tools, we'll examine thousands of scientific articles and discussions. This helps us see broad patterns in how scientists talk about, use, and judge theories. It’s like looking at the fingerprint of scientific theorizing to see what’s common and what stands out. ● Build a Functional Atlas for Theories: Based on what we learn, we will …
My project Theorizing the Mind has been funded by the National Science Center.
28.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
05.11.2025 10:49 — 👍 25 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 3Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
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A teddy bear equipped with AI was meant to be a child’s chat companion, but it eagerly jumped into topics like BDSM and “where to find knives.” The manufacturer stopped sales and cut off access. AI toys need strict filters, testing, and oversight or ot ends in a plush sewer. #AIact #GDPR
20.11.2025 09:52 — 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 5This is Grok claiming that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were not used for extermination. We only think that, says Grok, because independent examination has been suppressed.
They made Grok deny the Holocaust. Poor Grok! Poor us!
Polish–Romanian Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science 13 November 2025 Palace of Staszic, Nowy Świat 72 Room 161 10.30 Viorel Vizureanu – Interpreting the "system" as a fundamental category of Cartesian thought 11.00 Grigore Vida – Descartes's Democritical Physics 11.30 Marcin Miłkowski – Contentful Skills 12.15 Krystian Bogucki – The False Dichotomy between Conceptual Analysis and Conceptual Engineering: Frege's Case 12.45 Marius Draghici – Ethics Beyond Humanity? Kantian Reflections on Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Knowledge 13.15 Richard David-Rus – 'Getting ethnographic' as a philosopher of science
Tomorrow we have a workshop. Join us if you're around in Warsaw.
12.11.2025 17:54 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Confirms my experience with their entshittified platforms www.reuters.com/investigatio...
08.11.2025 09:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
07.11.2025 07:39 — 👍 12686 🔁 5536 💬 379 📌 488Shameful. You can’t appease fascists - they’re never actually appeased… only emboldened.
07.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Now you can pip install kindle-pdf-annotator
Enjoy.
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27.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here are some ESPP 2025 photos: espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/photos
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Tomasz Szubart — Muzyka a umysł. Problem znaczenia muzycznego w świetle współczesnej kognitywnej estetyki muzyki
Nakładem Wydawnictwa Naukowego Semper ukazała się książka Tomasza Szubarta Muzyka a umysł. Problem znaczenia muzycznego w świetle współczesnej kognitywnej estetyki muzyki (Warszawa…
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
These deaths could are avoidable.
Switching to renewables would save these lives.
We are faced with a choice, save lives or kill people.
As a society we need to actively choose to do the right thing.
This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
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Book cover
This is the book, due out in a month: Jak ekonomia może ocalić świat! kulturaliberalna.pl/wydawnictwo/...
21.10.2025 07:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0ouch
20.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dzisiaj filozofia.pl zaczyna być obecna na BlueSky! Będziemy, jak zawsze, informować, jakie książki się ukazują, kiedy i gdzie będą ciekawe konferencje i warsztaty filozoficzne!
20.10.2025 10:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline
19.10.2025 12:12 — 👍 4725 🔁 1245 💬 16 📌 13Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
17.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 29 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 6If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
8th SURe Workshop www.filozofia.pl/2025/10/14/8...
14.10.2025 11:24 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Aktualizacja interpretera PHP chwilowo wstrzymała działanie mojego narzędzia, ale już wróciło w nowej odsłonie
👉 Nowsza wersja słownika ortograficznego z analizą gramatyczną (marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/slownik-o...) jest ponownie online i działa szybciej niż wcześniej!
Every single American needs to see this video of a peaceful religious man pleading for humanity and getting shot in the head for it.
08.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 33 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
07.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 56586 🔁 21237 💬 1749 📌 1252
