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See below for a new paper by Lorena Sganzerla, Daniel D. Hutto and Michael David Kirchhoff - inc. a fascinating discussion of the advantages of mental fictionalism over the extended mind thesis, as well as some important challenges for the fictionalist. Plus Santa Claus(e)! 🎅

I have a new paper out with Ron Planer. We apply interventionist thinking from the philosophy of causation to some debates in human evolution; potentially of interest to those working on causal inference in evolutionary studies. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check this one out by Ross Pain and my colleague Ron Planer

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Is fictionalism about mental and neural representation explanatory useful? Some argue it is. I have just submitted a paper to Philosophical Psychology arguing it's not. Stay tuned for more information

OMG, I want to live in this article! Spiegehalter puts in words exactly how I approach probability: it doesn't exist as an objective measure, but it's still useful to pretend it does. In a way, it feels like Calibrated Bayes, my favorite kind of Bayesian!

Two books in two days! This is an 18-chapter volume on Levels of Explanation, co-edited with Katie Robertson. It's out in hardback on 31 Dec, but it's also open access and the PDF is already free to download: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Now out: Why constitution in metaphysics can be causal and temporal, contrary the established view. We invite you to read and comments on our work (with Julian Kiverstein) doaj.org/article/f9afbd…

Out in pre-print: We provide new arguments for why Extensive Enactivism - a corollary of Radical Enactivism - is theoretically preferable to the Extended Mind Thesis, Distributed Cognition and Autonomous Enactivism. researchgate.net/publication/38…

Coming out in 2025 mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552936/… I show that models of mind and brain are idealized models. This has consequences for models of representation/computation and mush else

We've got an excellent lineup in both philosophy and neuroscience for our first conference! Be sure to submit an abstract by Feb 1, so you can join us!

Our "Beyond the Extended Mind: New Arguments for Extensive Enactivism" has been accepted in Synthese - Daniel D. Hutto, Lorena Sganzerla . Part of a special issue edited by Marco Facchin(dot)bsky(dot)social and Luke Kersten. Here's a link to a pre-print: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Out in pre-print: I discuss models of mental representation from the perspective of mental fictionalism. I argue that a fictional treatment of mental representation is not explanatorily useful. Link here: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Pretty excited about this new addition to the bookshelf Which you can add to your own bookshelf here: amazon.com/Drive-Survive-… Or read for free here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog…

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Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-for-…

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New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “WTF is the FEP? A short explainer on the free energy principle”: noumenal.ai/post/wtf-is-th… Really happy to share this one! We discuss the free energy principle: What it is, what it is not, what promise it holds, why it can be extremely useful, and