🥳 The call for papers for the SSPP is now available! The QR code takes you to the submission page or find it linked below. Come hang out with me and @natashasnature.bsky.social 🥳
🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹
@okaydaniellle.bsky.social
philosopher at NYU 🤠 mind, neuroscience, cognitive science, (neuro)AI/machine learning 🤖 🧠 @socphilneuro.bsky.social 📚 daniellejwilliams.com
My 4yo, listening to Sandstorm by Darude: “When does the music start?” Absolutely savage.
My most amazing philosopher friend is co-editing a book on K-Pop and Philosophy! The call for abstracts just went out! 🩷💚
So excited I get to finally share I’ll be co-editing (with Catherine Robb and Gah-Kai Leung) this book on K-Pop and Philosophy for Blackwell. Below is the link for the CFA! Please consider submitting and sharing widely! 🎊 #philsky #kpop #bts andphilosophy.com/2026/09/03/k...
In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3)
PEWS Publication Spotlight! 📚 PEWS Director @apotochnik.bsky.social & Graduate Student Affiliate Qianrong Gong have a new review of "Organized Science Denial" in Metascience. Read free via @springernature.com: rdcu.be/fs0Uq #UCPEWS #SciComm #PhilSci
My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters
check out the invited program for the SSPP 🥳 It’s shaping up to be a great conference with some memorable sessions. call for papers coming soon! 👀 @natashasnature.bsky.social
Loretta enjoying summer streets in the city! We love it here 💖
All session recordings from #CCN2026 in New York City are now available on YouTube. Thank you again to all speakers, attendees, and sponsors for making this exciting event possible.
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Videos from CCN 2026, held in New York City, USA, August 3-6 2026 For full details of the 2026 program, visit https://2026.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-events/
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Join us for the Philosophy & Neuroscience Palooza at the PSA! 🧠 8:30-10:00am: DSPNW's “Neurophilosophy at 40” featuring Patricia Churchland 🧠10:15-11:45am: SPAN's meet the author session with David Sussillo 🧁 🍇🥯 Light breakfast will be served at each session!
i have a forthcoming paper that defends standard mapping views of computational implementation. i argue that their generality is a virtue and i make it clear how & why they are formulated as such, why that matters, + how the view relates to computational modeling in CS: philpapers.org/rec/WILWWD-4
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interesting GAC session at CNN on ANNs and understanding in neuroscience 😉
Back to back Phil Neuro sessions at the PSA! 🥳
Join us for the Philosophy & Neuroscience Palooza at the PSA! 🧠 8:30-10:00am: DSPNW's “Neurophilosophy at 40” featuring Patricia Churchland 🧠10:15-11:45am: SPAN's meet the author session with David Sussillo 🧁 🍇🥯 Light breakfast will be served at each session!
i’m leaving purdue in a couple of days and i just thrifted the best parting gift: 1980s snoopy purdue tshirt 🥹
UPSS mentees participating in PSA UPSS Mentoring Program who are current grad students or w/in 3 years of PhD are eligible to submit a paper to be considered for presentation in UPSS Session at the PSA Biennial mtg in San Diego Nov 19-22. Deadline August 1st, 2026 #HPS philsci.org/upss_biennia...
Delighted Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) is able to join us as a speaker! Over 160 people registered so far! Full schedule: computationalconsciousness.github.io
this year @natashasnature.bsky.social and I will be taking over the SSPP as Philosophy Program Co-Chairs 🥳🥳 We can’t wait to plan some sessions 🤓🤓 See yall in Atlanta! ✌️🍑 southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/
The Southern Society
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A philosopher wins a substantial prize for her work building “a bridge between philosophy and the actual practice of science.”
Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award - Daily Nous
Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in th...
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i'm heading to northeastern this month to give a couple of talks: one on AI (and opacity) and one on the history of AI (and cognitive science)! 🥳 it's really cool to be included on this list with some really amazing researchers 🥹
the california mind cannot comprehend the midwest sunny and 80 to torrential downpour in a matter of minutes weather of indiana. i am the california mind. what is happening. why is it like this
We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠