Peter Schulte

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The ris...

😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience

Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!

www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences | 21 | Extrinsical Potentialities are properties that can manifest. Many potentialities are instantiated in virtue of having causal bases that are possible causes for their

Our open access chapter “Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences” (with María Ferreira Ruiz, Marie I. Kaiser & @javiersuarez.bsky.social) is now published in Inductive Metaphysics (Routledge, 2025). Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Yes, that's an adequate one-word summary of the answer, I have to admit 🙂

Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Finally reading @peterschulte.bsky.social Mental Content in my summer project to work through some Cambridge Elements. It is extremely well written: straightforward but nonetheless teaching important distinctions and arguments without unnecessary complexity.

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated! Glad to hear that you find the Element useful 🙂

Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Karl Gustav Bergman, Teleosemantics and universal hybridity - PhilPapers According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU

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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View - Journal for General Philosophy of Science This paper argues that the so-called scaling-up problem (representation-hunger problem) can be resolved within the mechanistic framework of explanation. Emphasising the problem’s character as an empir...

New paper alert!
My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky

doi.org/10.1007/s108...

The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The 253 most-cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (1) Rawls, A Theory of Justice; (2) Kripke, Naming and Necessity; (3) Parfit, Reasons and Persons; (4) Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; (5) Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

The updated version of the IIT-Concerned letter has now been published in NN, thanks to the herculean efforts of the corresponding authors (thank you!!!). Here's the link. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

You beat me to it 🙂Thanks for the endorsement!

Marc Artiga, Peter Schulte & Nir Fresco, Some Proper Functions are Distal - PhilPapers

Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions.

philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF

🚀 NeuroExp 2025 goes live! 🧠🎥

Due to high demand, we’re streaming keynote lectures LIVE (Feb 19-21, #TUBerlin)!

📡 Livestream 🔗 link available on our website on the morning of the conference: www.merex-project.org/neuroexp2025

#CognitiveNeuroscience #philsky #philsci #cogsci

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

We Can Make an Impact. SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

Explanation in Biology Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Explanation in Biology

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Neurophenomenal Structuralism and the Role of Computational Context Neurophenomenal structuralism posits that conscious experiences are defined relationally and that their phenomenal structures are mirrored by neural structures. While this approach offers a promising ...

Thrilled to share a new preprint on Neurophenomenal Structuralism (NPS) by @adriendoerig.bsky.social & myself! We show why neural structures alone aren’t enough to capture conscious contents. We must consider computational context! (arxiv.org/abs/2412.20873). A Thread (1/15):

😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too!

More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com

Protest gegen Sparpläne: Demonstrieren Sie mit uns für die Wissenschaft! #SaveBrainCity – unter diesem Motto ruft die Berliner Wissenschaft zum Protest auf. Der Grund ist der Berliner Sparhaushalt, von dem die Wissenschaft besonders hart getroffen wird.

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I have put together a starter pack of philosophers working on or with biological functions go.bsky.app/KW2mXWe

Please let me know if I missed anyone. ☺️

#philpsy, #philsci, #philosophy, #philsky

The Brains Blog Fabian Hundertmark, Bielefeld UniversityJakob Roloff, Justus-Liebig-University GießenFrancesca Bellazzi, University of Oslo, ERC Project Assembling Life (no.101089326) 1. Introduction Functions are…

“Do we need to rethink biological functions?” With @jroloff.bsky.social & @frabellazzi.bsky.social, I respond to Dong & @gualtiero.bsky.social’s critique of the selected effects theory. We argue: Selection is inescapable! Part 1 now on @philosophyofbrains.com: philosophyofbrains.com/2024/12/10/s...

Thanks, @fhundertmark.bsky.social and @keithwilson.eu! (I have an unfinished paper on olfaction that I haven't managed to get back to for several years, so in a wider sense, I'm "working on" the topic 😉)