Thanks to @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for reviewing our 'cognitive homologies' approach to cognitive ontology! "Chapter 4, by Beate Krickel and Mariel K. Goddu, is a must-read for those interested in cognitive ontologies" @beakr.bsky.social Download: philpapers.org/rec/KRICOI-2

Gualtiero Piccinini@gualtiero.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thanks to Felipe De Brigard for his generous review of Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind in BJPS: "In sum, Piccinini has put together a fantastic volume. The fourteen chapters that comprise it cover a wide range of topics and explore different ways that neuroscientific 1/

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

I just came back to this paper, and precarity is such a good, fascinating concept. It seems intuitively true that care is needed where things are precarious. And yet the angels-on-pinheads debates about AI welfare are a million miles away from this basic reality of (precarious) life.

Mariel Goddu@marielgoddu.bsky.social · last yr.

Now out in @aimagazine.bsky.social - Against "AI Welfare": Care Practices Should Prioritize Living Beings Over AI philpapers.org/archive/DORA... led by @johndorsch.bsky.social ! We propose a novel guideline, the “Precarity Guideline,” to sidestep protracted debates about AI consciousness. We 1/11

Fall Term 2026 (Sept 22-Dec 11) -Aristotle on the Practical Imagination -Paper: ‘Intuitive Physics‘ is for Action -Practicum (cont.): Infant causal learning & primary intersubjectivity

Mariel Goddu@marielgoddu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Summer Term 2026 (Jun 22-Aug 25) -Paper: ‘The Participatory Perspective’ -Paper: ‘Who Needs Causal Representations?’ -Practicum: Neonatal intuitive physics & causal learning

My entry on Animal Thought for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now online! plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...

A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways linking mind and immune function. go.nature.com/4x7rUNR #immunosky 🧪

An evolutionary perspective on predictive processing (Rust, 2024) We needed this!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beginning at the beginning: predictive processing and coupled representations

A typical expository strategy for the predictive processing account begins with perception and then extends to other cognitive domains, such as action or non-human animal cognition. Because this st...

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Recovering from a writing bender; clearing desk of "notes to self" Hummingbirds Seals Star nosed moles Footnote: Narwhals

Delighting in Pasnau's "Who killed the causality of things?" (Noûs, 2025). Please, more playful philosophy! spot.colorado.edu/~pasnau/inpr...

new #preprint @pigozzife.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.28250 Once you get replicators, Darwinian evolution can happen. What's happening *before* replicators arise? "Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life"

Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life

Agents that exert causal power in the world are thought to be the product of selection among diverse replicators; what is the causal structure of a medium before replicators appear, and evolution take...

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A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.

"When I write philosophy, I do not take myself to be merely informing you, the reader, of some Points, which are detached from me. Rather, my words are mine, and I assume responsibility for them. I take this to be the essence of our mutual contract, as reader and writer: I may expect your

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

"Watch a Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) long enough, and you realize that flowers were doing origami long before paper existed." Fascinating brief explication of the biomechanics of flower opening:

Patrick Lynch@patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Geometry of Opening 🧪🌿🌎🐡 open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso...

“[W]hat remains when intelligence becomes cheap? Presence. Embodiment. Ritual. Family. Friendship. Love. The courage to participate in the lives of others without control. The willingness to be changed by people who are not designed for us.” What a worthwhile essay!

Noema Magazine@noemamag.com · 4mo ago

“We are learning, every time we talk to AI, what it feels like to be listened to without friction. Over time, this feeling will change us.” —Houda Nait El Barj #ai #airelationships

Summer Term 2026 (Jun 22-Aug 25) -Paper: ‘The Participatory Perspective’ -Paper: ‘Who Needs Causal Representations?’ -Practicum: Neonatal intuitive physics & causal learning

Mariel Goddu@marielgoddu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Spring Term 2026 (Mar 30-Jun 10) -Paper: 'The Participatory Perspective' -Workshop: 'The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals' -Philosophy of Language -Metalogic -3D Printing a Human Being: Weeks 28-38

How predictable is evolution? Replicated C. elegans experiments show environmental differences and population bottlenecks jointly shape the repeatability of adaptation doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit: Wikimedia

World models in natural and artificial intelligence royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3... - super interesting and very timely collection of articles on what it means to understand the world...

Volume 384 Issue 2320 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences.

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It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

New #vol39issue4! First is Joshua Rust, exploring what a predictive processing account would look like if it started with the highly coupled representations carried by our evolutionary ancestors and other non-human organisms doi.org/10.1080/0951... #evolution #philsky #philpsy

Interdisciplinary name tag bling (comparative /computational /developmental /philosophy /vision science! )

ICYMI: Matthew Sims reviews Jan Baedke’s The Organism www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #hpbio #philsky

Jan Baedke, The Organism | BJPS Review of Books

Matthew Sims reviews The Organism, by Jan Baedke

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The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25) We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics! If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️

CRASSH@crasshlive.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦‍⬛ This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate 24-25 April 2026 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4by8cCM

@segundo-ortin.bsky.social is running a conference ‘Embodied Cognition and Comparative Psychology’ in early May at the University of Murcia. Find out more and register: embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site

One of the wildest things I learned about planarian flatworms: you can isolate their pharynx (throat) and it will autonomously engage in feeding behavior. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

The ISPSM is happy to announce a double book symposium on: Kate Nave's A Drive to Survive & Jakob Hohwy's The Self-Evidencing Agent May 12, H 10:00 CEST Subscription form Here: forms.gle/NGkFaVYHS7Lk... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

'Philosophers of Many Minds': A selection of our interviews with philosophers!! 🎙️🎙️ Now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6UZ...

Philosophers of Many Minds

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What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

I've really enjoyed this series on Philosophy of Biology from @closertotruth.bsky.social: closertotruth.com/project/phil... Videos are 25min each, consist mainly of interviews with experts, and cover topics ranging from units of selection to biological information to evolution of cognition

Philosophy of Biology - Closer To Truth

Philosophy of Biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what…video Why Philosophy of B...

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Spring Term 2026 (Mar 30-Jun 10) -Paper: 'The Participatory Perspective' -Workshop: 'The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals' -Philosophy of Language -Metalogic -3D Printing a Human Being: Weeks 28-38

Mariel Goddu@marielgoddu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Winter Term 2026 (Jan 5-Mar 20) -Teaching Assistant: Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology -'Naturalizing Enactivism' (Independent Study) -'Models of Enactive & Embodied Cognition' (I.S.) -3D Printing a Human Being: Weeks 17-27

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