Eleonore Neufeld
@eneufeld.bsky.social
Philosophy Prof at UMass Amherst
Wrote this chapter on how modal cognition develops! check it out! philpapers.org/rec/NEUTDO-9
Eleonore Neufeld, The Development of Modal Cognition - PhilPapers
This chapter provides a systematic overview of empirical findings and theoretical perspectives from the growing field of the development of modal cognition. I begin by laying out methodological prelim...
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I thought (naively) that it's complete standard, now, to pre-register your experiments & hypotheses. But looking through many of the experiments (from very recent years) that I'm reading for something I'm working on right now, I'm actually seeing that that's actually not the case! Why not?
Syllabus (draft) on modal thought: flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL555-Moda... Comments welcome!
PHIL555: Modal Thought | Notion
Overview
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Eleonore Neufeld @eneufeld.bsky.social · last yr.Spread the word & register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind", combining perspectives from Phil & Psych, on April 26 at UMass Amherst! @umasspress.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/essenti...
Hey folks- I’ll be doing the next one of these, if your grad students want to chat Philsci, game theory, evolutionary or agent based modeling, misinformation please share
Philosophy of Science Association@philsci.bsky.social · last yr.After last week's PSA Office Hour was such a success, don't miss out on the next one! Sign up to meet with Cailin O'Connor (@cailinmeister.bsky.social) to chat about Philosophy of Science & Social Epistemology. 📅 Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 🕒 12:00 PM EST 🔗tinyurl.com/SignUpOf...
Spread the word & register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind", combining perspectives from Phil & Psych, on April 26 at UMass Amherst! @umasspress.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/essenti...
In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of new work on the philosophy & cog sci of norms. If you want to get up to speed on it, check out this newly revised SEP entry on the Psychology of Normative Cognition by @dryan149.bsky.social, Stephen Setman & me. plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...
The Psychology of Normative Cognition (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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A vaccine that prevents cancer: ‘Scientists say the HPV vaccine works so well that this type of cancer could be eradicated in the near future.’ Over 99% of cervical cancers are caused by this virus—so preventing the infection prevents the cancer. Amazing news! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Our paper "Giving Generic Language Another Thought" (authored by myself, Annie Bosse, Guillermo Del Pinal, and Rachel Sterken) is now officially out in WIREs Cognitive Science. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/3)
Giving Generic Language Another Thought
According to an influential research program in cognitive science, philosophy, and linguistics, there is a deep, special connection between generics and stereotyping. However, recent empirical and th...
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Deborah Blum@deborahb.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
Just a reminder that the deadline to submit to @socphilpsych.bsky.social is (for real this time) Friday, Jan 31, at 11:59 Eastern! It's going to be a fantastic meeting, with keynotes from Louise Antony and Fei Xu, some incredible invited symposia, and a preconference "Possibilities Near and Far".
Melissa Kibbe@levelsof.bsky.social · 2y agoSociety for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 (June 19-21, 2025 at Cornell) is going to be 🔥🔥🔥 and the submission portal is now live! Submit abstracts of 750 words+1 figure by Jan 24, 2025 at 11:59pm EST easychair.org/my/conferenc....
Check out my new syllabus for my PhD seminar on foundations of cogsci! this semester will be so much fun flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...
PHIL 755: Foundations of Cognitive Science | Notion
Spring 2025 Thursdays, 4-6:30pm, South College E301 Eleonore Neufeld UMass Amherst, Philosophy
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I have a new paper coming out in Ergo about algorithmic fairness, for anyone who might be interested in that sort of thing. philpapers.org/rec/FLEAFC
Will Fleisher, Algorithmic Fairness Criteria as Evidence - PhilPapers
Statistical fairness criteria are widely used for diagnosing and ameliorating algorithmic bias. However, these fairness criteria are controversial as their use raises several difficult questions. I ar...
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This profoundly important piece by Mohammad Alsaafin is a must-read today: www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We Have a Ceasefire Deal, but This Isn’t the End
The widely reported agreement must hold. We haven’t begun to understand the full scope of the horrors Israel wrought. And Palestine is still not free.
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I am following the cue of Gazans celebrating on the streets and trying to feel some joy. I’m facing how numb I’ve become in order to survive. I longed for this moment for 467 days, and it’s here. And I don’t know how to access my feelings about it.
I wrote a blog post about the very different approaches to citing old papers in philosophy vs. psychology - and which approach is the better one xphi.net/2025/01/03/h...
Is generic language—eg “Brits have bad teeth”—a unique cause of harmful social cognition (eg stereotyping)? @eneufeld.bsky.social et al review the evidence and conclude the generics→ social bias link is more complex and less direct than previously thought https://buff.ly/48jgRFC
New paper alert! Junhyo Lee's & my paper on pornography's effects on desire is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly. We're expanding on Langton&West's presupposition model of pornography to explain its effects on desires, and argue that it issues implicit directives. philpapers.org/rec/LEEHDP?f...
SPP abstracts for the 50th Anniversary Meeting are due in one month, with a great lineup of speakers and events!
The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now. sites.google.com/view/causali... Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!
famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.
What's your favorite definition (/characterization/..) of analog and digital representations?
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Check out my syllabus for my grad seminar "Foundations of Cognitive Science"! flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...