We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Philosophy with an AOS of Ethics! Tenure-track, amazingly supportive department, and in a town that has both pork steaks and toasted ravioli. If you're interested, it would be supererogatory of you to apply. apply.interfolio.com/150514

How are multiple interconnected memories reactivated during #sleep? We've published our opinions, but here I'd like to highlight recent findings from other groups. Tl;dr: multiple memories can be (almost) simultaneously reactivated & shared contexts drive this reactivation 1/8

Y’all, my 13 year old son just pronounced “tenure” similar to “manure,” and I’m dying.

"Episodic memory is acct'd for with 2 processes: ‘familiarity’ when generally recognizing an item & ‘recollection’ when retrieving the full contextual details... [Some] report contextual information as familiar but w/o recollecting details, which is not easily acct'd for..."

If someone makes a banger philosophy meme but then no one likes it, is it even a meme at all?

Well golly gee, one of the researchers of memory transfer went on to be a stuntman in the TOS Star Trek and other things after the research lost funding: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Frank_Bab…

"Early studies have suggested that differences in the connections between brain regions involved in vision, memory and decision-making could explain variations in people’s ability to form mental images." quantamagazine.org/what-happens-i…

"We describe a unique pharmacological approach meant to enhance cognitive performance and working memory in a state-dependent manner by engaging and amplifying the brain’s intrinsic γ-oscillations through enhancing the function of PV+INs." pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

"...we provide [...] evidence consistent with model-based strategic decision making in horses. [...] this is the first evidence suggesting higher order, executive function in horses, a species thought to possess only moderate cognitive capabilities." doi.org/10.1016/j.appl…

Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean only makes sense to those who've never owned a vacuum. Too low suction doesn't get any dirt; too high suction sucks up the carpet. Medium suction takes 2+ passes. Give me the 75% suction one. Call this Tomy's Doctrine of the 75%. In this paper I..

Skeptics to infallibilists:

I swear to god, if you all don't start liking my philosophy jokes, you will leave me no choice but to pay for X Premium so that I will at the very least get angry replies from laymen. You've been warned.

Exciting news! Tamás Demeter and I are editing a Special Issue of Philosophical Psychology on mental fictionalism. Send us your papers! Deadline March 31st 2025 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues… Philosophical Psychology

Our #vol37issue6 is a special issue edited by Katherine Puddifoot and starts with an introduction about different conceptions of #bias and different strategies for mitigation: doi.org/10.1080/095150… #freeaccess follow this thread to discover the rest! 1/13

my hopes for gen z taking over the academic review process is that it will be matched for harshness, but at least more efficient

pet peeve: philosophy papers with uninformative abstracts. way too common. we shouldn't have to read your entire paper to see whether it's relevant to something we're thinking about -- tell us what you're arguing for and why!

Last semester I had [at least] one student who used ChatGPT for every short reaction, which asked for “A reaction, thought, or question about the material that is no more than 100 words.” But I never would’ve expected them to use it for their personal introduction. 😬

"OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the most richly valued artificial intelligence startups, have agreed to let the U.S. AI Safety Institute test their new models before releasing them to the public" #AIEthics cnbc.com/2024/08/29/ope…

🎉 Congratulations to Nadine Dijkstra UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology on receiving funding for #MonitoringReality! Her project will explore how the brain distinguishes imagination from perception using #neuroimaging, brain stimulation & computer modelling. European Research Council (ERC) bit.ly/3Xc7z9z