finally, something to listen to when winding down for the day... www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wE...

0. Preface -Psychosemantics - The Problem of Meaning in Philosophy of Mind - Jerry A. Fodor

YouTube video by Derrida's Grammatology

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📄 NEW PRE-PRINT! 📄 How do we acquire beliefs? According to one intuitive view, we can entertain thoughts, and then choose to accept them as beliefs or reject them. philpapers.org/rec/PIOBWW (🧵1/10)

Griffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz & Eric Mandelbaum, Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind - PhilPapers

How do we acquire beliefs? According to the Spinozan model, merely having a thought entails believing it. Only through a further, effortful process can one reject automatically-accepted beliefs. This ...

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I should say this project was inspired by @quiltydunn.bsky.social's amazing paper on concepts and polysemy (doi.org/10.1111/mila...)! If you haven't already, go read it!

Jake Quilty-Dunn@quiltydunn.bsky.social · 2y ago

so psyched about these new results: unresolved polysemous representations compose into logically structured thoughts and are used in domain-general reasoning. in other words, polysemy extends outside language into conceptual thought. griffin pion & elliot schwartz (first authors) did a killer job

Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)

one man’s modus ponens, another’s…

Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · 2y ago

So it’s over then, works for me

trump appoints jerry fodor to department of concept acquisition