@ajgillett.bsky.social
Philosopher of Science at Macquarie University. https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/alexander-gillett/
Great talk by @wchiggins.bsky.social "Rethinking measurement validity". Wendy introduces an interesting distinction between 'validity potential' and 'realised validity' to help untangle some problems in measurement practices in psychology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4N...
Rethinking measurement validity | Wendy Higgins | 2026 AIMOS Metascience Seminar
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New Article: “More than “Information in the Head” Culture, Cultural Evolution, and Concepts in Dynamic Assemblage” w/ @gregdowney.bsky.social and Alex Gillett--plus input from a number of commentators-- finally out in Current Anthropology www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/7
More than “Information in the Head” : Culture, Cultural Evolution, and Concepts in Dynamic Assemblages | Current Anthropology
Humans engage the world, not just through organic evolutionary processes but also through innovation, technology, communication, social organization, environmental exploitation and alteration, and dev...
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New paper out with McArthur Mingon and John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social "Being Where? Putting Memory, Technology, and Wayfinding Together Again" link.springer.com/article/10.1.... We look at how GPS devices reconfigure our wayfinding ecologies and introduce idea of the 'archipelago effect'
Being Where? Putting Memory, Technology, and Wayfinding Together Again - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Review of Philosophy and Psychology - Although wayfinding is a central domain for 4E research, much work on spatial cognition and navigation still operates within an internalist framework. This is...
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