I love that every chapter starts with a case study. It’s a nice way of showing the value of philosophy to those who might be skeptical. Can’t wait to check it out!

Such sad news. He was a brilliant philosopher who had a profound influence on cognitive science. And he was hugely supportive to young scholars—including me, long ago. A great loss.
dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

They should replace it with a Chipotle. Can't go wrong with a giant burrito.

We are happy to announce the launch of The Memory Palace! The Memory Palace is a space for sharing scholarly work in and around the philosophy of memory.  Subscribe at thememorypalacephil.substack.com to receive an email each Tuesday as a new post debuts. (1/5)

academia has you beefing with someone 3k miles away who is also one of only 4 people on earth who likes the same stuff as you

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This is what my matches with Karpov felt like.

Basketball shorts have gotten so short, they should be referred to as “Gettiers.”

'...when placed on ice, worms delay forgetting of specific olfactory memories by at least 8-fold. Delayed forgetting was canceled completely when the worms were gradually adapted to low temperatures...' Really neat study!

New revised SEP entry on 'Neuroscience of Consciousness' just dropped! By yours truly and Wayne Wu Wayne Wu. Sections on introspection & report/no-report, metacognition and theories of consciousness saw most of the edits + lots of reference updates. plato.stanford.edu/entries/consci…

'Here we show that stressed plants emit airborne sounds that can be recorded from a distance and classified.... These informative sounds may also be detectable by other organisms.' Fascinating. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Has anyone in the philosophy of measurement and/or language done any work in alternative/meme scales of measurement? E.g., 'banana' for length, 'Sarcamucci' for time, 'hamburgers' for weight, 'washing machines' for volume, etc. Seems a perfect topic for a good, fun paper.

But, can we just pause here to say that it's ridiculous that SCOTUS is very worried about doctors being 'forced' to perform abortions (they're not) but don't care about [checks notes] WOMEN BEING FORCED TO BRING A PREGNANCY TO TERM AGAINST THEIR WILL.

I like my waves traveling. So does my brain.

Cortical traveling waves link visual and frontal cortex during working memory-guided behavior
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Plato always makes it seem like everyone came away dazzled and transformed, but i have a feeling Gorgias and them often were just like 'well there's 6 hours of my life i can't get back'

We're hiring a postdoc to work on an ANR-funded project on Simulationist and Causalist Accounts of Reference in Remembering. This is a two-year research-only position starting in fall 2024. Contact me by May 15 for informal queries or instructions on how to apply.

Please RT!

Currently loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words 😎