Marcin Miłkowski

Ryszard Wójcicki (1931-2026)

Zmarł profesor Ryszard Wójcicki (30 października 1931 – 18 stycznia 2025). Światowej sławy logik, metodolog i filozof nauki. Członek Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności. Były przewodniczący Komitetu Nauk Filozoficznych. Od lat 60. XX w. pracował w Zakładzie Logiki Instytutu…

Here's my new little app for searching through your parallel corpora and translation memories: github.com/milekpl/corp... (MIT License)

Nothing wild. It does it when the upload fails. That's why one should use whisper to transcribe. From the same company but runnable almost on any machine.

• Petra Schumacher on real-time meaning adaptation
• Emma Borg questioning reasons & action
• @noranewcombe.bsky.social on cognitive maps
• @cameronbuckner.bsky.social on LLMs as models of human reasoning.
Videos were subtitled.
All links here: espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/keynotes 2/2

As 2025 winds down, I've been recollecting ESPP 2025 we organized in Warsaw.
All the keynotes and symposia are now up on YouTube for your procrastination pleasure. Plus full symposium sessions and Q&As. Perfect background listening for grading marathons or post-holiday-dinner recovery. 1/2

Dismantling NCAR. Denying the science is not enough - they will destroy it. The Trump administration has gone full Lysenko. If the US is ever won back, this will be spoken of in the same way in the history books.

Current Workshop CFA: 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop   Call for abstracts        We invite authors to submit abstracts of up to 750-words for the upcoming...

2nd CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw.
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

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...

James Bogen (1935-2025) - Daily Nous James "Jim" Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Bogen ...

My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci
dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...

For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.

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.

PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In

📣 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

Engagement 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.

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

This 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.

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Confirms my experience with their entshittified platforms www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Shameful. You can’t appease fascists - they’re never actually appeased… only emboldened.

Now you can pip install kindle-pdf-annotator

Enjoy.

Save the date!

Here are some ESPP 2025 photos: espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/photos

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 2025). W książce Muzyka a umysł. Problem znaczenia muzycznego w świetle współczesnej kognitywnej estetyki muzyki Autor prowadzi od Pitagorasa po neuroobrazowanie, by odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy muzyka może znaczyć. Pokazuje, co dzieje się w umyśle, gdy słuchamy muzyki i zestawia te procesy z mechanizmami rozumienia języka.

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.

PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology TikTok video by lia

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.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

Book cover

This is the book, due out in a month: Jak ekonomia może ocalić świat! kulturaliberalna.pl/wydawnictwo/...

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“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline