Giving bluesky a go! To tell the void that my latest article, '"Mind" and "Mental": Extended, Pluralistic, Eliminated' was just accepted in Synthese, arguing we should get rid of the concept of mind and category mental because they are confused, confusing, and harmful philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24024/
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Nice! Why assume that there is one right way to taxonomize cell types any more than there is one correct species concept? This article alights on the metaphor of a cell “atlas.” An atlas can show topography, political boundaries, population. What taxonomies are useful for what? 🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #PhilSci
Scientists have more information than ever on how cells differ — but they still resist easy grouping. Scientists have more information than ever on how cells differ — but they still resist easy groupi...
It’s here! And it’s so pink! And I can finally put to use the two stuffed possums I have in my office!
...but if researchers are live to different possibilities, there are many promising new avenues for studying which species have episodic memory and why, expanding on insights from the likes of Nicola Clayton, to whose honour this special issue is dedicated (4/4)
...Functions (especially of components of the mind) are hard to study anyway, and there's a puzzle: while you need to know why episodic memory evolved to know which species have it, you also need to know which species have it to know why it evolved...(3/4)
...Many of the best-known proposed functions for episodic memory (e.g. it helps with planning/decision-making/simulating the future) are very incomplete. It could have had multiple competing functions in different species at different times... (2/4)
How philosophy of biology can help comparative psychology: new (open access) from @aliboyle6 and me. To study which species have episodic memory, we need some idea of what it might have evolved to do, but this is trickier than many think... rdcu.be/dUgSM (1/4)
My condolences to anyone who studies the effects of debates on presidential elections, your identification strategy just got fucked
