Marcin Miłkowski

She was a legend. I compulsively, compulsorily, and committedly cite her.

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Thrilled to share my new commentary 'The Interface Mind' in Philosophical Psychology—symposium on Nick Shea's *Concepts at the Interface*! Concepts as interfaces bridging general reasoning & specialized sims solve integration puzzles (e.g., Nanay's imagery). Advances computational mind theories! 1/2

School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025 Dates: September 8-13, 2025, Warsaw, Poland The applications are open until July 21, 2025 (midnight anywhere on Earth). To apply, please fill the form: GOOGLE FORM Please be aware that since the Sc…

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Thrilled to see @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social running for EPSA president! I was truly humbled and surprised when the nomination committee approached me to run as well; it's such an unexpected honor to be considered alongside such excellent colleagues. philsci.eu/Elections2025 @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

Donald Trump is ripping away America’s role as a world leader in science and innovation.

Cuts to health care breakthroughs.
Cuts to tech development.
Cuts to energy research.

How is this America first?

I try to think as little as possible about X. But man, I gotta say, it is rather disappointing that corporations and universities continue to use a platform that is being explicitly engineered to spread racist propaganda. Like, why did your ancestors bother evolving a backbone if you won't use it?

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

Save the dates of 18-19th of September 2026 for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference at the University of Bucharest!!!

Please expect a call for abstracts in autumn 2025 with submissions due likely in winter 2026!

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Now we will surely compile a new peer review corpus at some point :)

Interactivism mechanized: bridging the gap between cognition, correspondence, and computation - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences This paper augments Mark Bickhard’s interactivist model by incorporating mechanistic explanation, computation, and a non-encodingist correspondence. It argues for a mechanistic framework (drawing on t...

4/4: Truth isn’t a ghost in the machine. It’s Neurath’s compass: refined mid-voyage, indispensable for navigation, yet grounded in the ship’s structure. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

3/4: How can systems detect error? Not through action failure alone! Inconsistency detection (via info-redundancy) is cognition’s "immune system". It proxies falsity before outcomes—solving Bickhard’s access problem.

2/4: Burge was right: Evolution optimizes fitness, not truth (placebos, adaptive biases). But truth isn’t optional! I show how alethic normativity emerges when bounded rationality negotiates accuracy, speed & cost in Tinbergen’s functional web.

Interactivism mechanized: bridging the gap between cognition, correspondence, and computation - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences This paper augments Mark Bickhard’s interactivist model by incorporating mechanistic explanation, computation, and a non-encodingist correspondence. It argues for a mechanistic framework (drawing on t...

1/4: NEW PAPER ALERT! I bridge Mark Bickhard’s interactivism with truth debates. Key insight: Truth ≠ evolutionary byproduct. It’s the outcome of problem-solving under biological constraints. A tribute to Bickhard’s overlooked work. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience

We had the privilege to host Helen during the Kazimierz Naturalist Workshop, Naturalising Religion 2012. And meeting her stayed with me.

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European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference: registration is open, September 2-5, Warsaw, Poland

Registration for #ESPP2025 is open: espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/registration

that’s Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest?

Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

Get it while it's hot: BJPS Associate Editor Dana Tulodziecki's (@193.bsky.social) addition to the Cambridge Elements series, Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues, is out now and free

#philsci #philsky #hps

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.

So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.

Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

We are happy to announce that we were able to make the ESPP conference fee a little more affordable (EUR 150). However, the membership fee was raised to EUR 60.

The registration form will be open in the second half of June.

espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/registration

Badges, badges, badges. We're all here for gamification.

This is what you get after editing 200 or more papers for EJPS :) @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

Setting aside the fact that the government is acting in bad faith, there are two things metascientists should be doing now:
1. Reflection on what they could have done to prevent this misappropriation instead of shrugging it off with a "they'd do it anyway"
2. Finding a firm stance on what to do next

To be exact, published. He might have written more.

Rescher wrote three. What's stopping you?

• Presents the Correspondence Network Framework (multi-channel structural similarity)
• Recasts RSA as detecting correspondence networks
• Explains why neural spaces form taxonomic clusters
• Counters anti-representationalist critiques & gives new heuristics for experiments 2/2

Online-first!
W. Mamak & M. Miłkowski
“Meaning from Matching: How Representational Mechanisms Exploit Structural Similarity”, THEORIA
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#CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #PhilMind #Representation 1/2

Exactly! Pitt & McCulloch first had the idea of how to have a neural network of logical gates, and then from neuroscience, von Neumann took it to produce a digital computer.