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Not all inquiries are like whodunnits, uncovering the pre-existing facts that provide the answers to our questions. Sometimes, we need to create or revise the frameworks that delineate the very object of our inquiry. That is a creative act, from beginning to end!

In this paper I try my best to cover all the exciting xphi work that has been done on imagination and creativity, and give a wish-list of things that might be done next! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23798/

Can some scientists "imagine better" than others? What would that even mean? Hannah Sargeant and I argue that imagination is all about breaking constraints, and imagining well is about being careful about which constraints you break, and how. t.ly/Aticr

Ying-Tung Lin Michael T Stuart

We're extremely pleased to announce that our Department has placed 7th in the Times Good University Guide 2025 for the subject of Philosophy! Also worth mentioning that we scored third for research quality! york.ac.uk/philosophy/abo…

Very proud of my department!

The online Experimental Philosophy UK work-in-progress workshop starts its next season with a keynote by Shaun Nichols, this Wednesday, Oct 9. Thereafter 2 talks per session, 2nd Wed each month. All welcome! Autumn/winter program and registration info: philevents.org/event/show/125…

Our new entry on Experimental Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Thanks to collaborators Ryan P. Doran and Shen-yi Liao. plato.stanford.edu/entries/experi…

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me at Purdue & Argonne National Lab! AI & science, philosophy of AI, automation in math/science, or philosophy of math. Philosophy appt. but not particular about disciplinary background! pls RT widely. DM me w/ questions! higheredjobs.com/faculty/detail…

Michael T Stuart on how scientists might benefit from thinking abt comedy improv: “If we can describe cases of scientific problem-solving as … improvisation, then it makes sense to highlight the insights of expert improvisors as a potential source of problem-solving strategies.”

iaseai.org/conference I'm excited to be a program co-chair (along with Dylan HadfieldMenell , Adam Gleave and Elizabeth A. Seger) for the inaugural conference of the international association for safe and ethical AI (6-7 February 2025). Please submit your expression of interest or a talk

Such an honour to be part of this special issue!

Mike Stuart will be giving a talk at the YorRobots & ISA Design and Verification Seminar on Wednesday, Feb 5th from 2-3pm at ISA 135. Title: Philosophy of science meets robotics. Abstract in the comments.

Such a good overview of something that desperately needed overviewing! @hscottfordsmand dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3.7…

Tomorrow, a three day conference on imagination will begin at Notre Dame. Mike Stuart will be one of the keynote speakers. His talk aims to develop a pragmatist epistemology of scientific imagination. Learn more about the conference here! sites.nd.edu/hpstv-conferen…

We're hiring! Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data). Deadline for applications: 17th April 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DML775/lec…

This Wednesday, Mike Stuart is giving a talk at the YorRobots speaker seminar, entitled "Philosophy of Science Meets Robotics." More info here: york.ac.uk/yorrobots/news…

We knew very little about how LLMs actually work...until now. Anthropic just dropped the most insane research paper, detailing some of the ways AI "thinks." And it's completely different than we thought. Here are their wild findings: 🧵

if you're not following the experiments happening with gemini, you are missing out. there are some deeply new & weird ideas here (mostly coming out of google creative lab) that are gonna be around long after the ghibli memes are gone 🧵

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week. So, I summarized everything from OpenAI, Figure, Amazon, Sanctuary AI, xAI, Runway, Physical Intelligence, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and more Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: