Do you really don’t know? (I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.) http://www.ehudlamm.com
“One of the things I still like about economics is that it takes what people do very seriously while having minimal respect for their stated rationale for doing it. We share this tendency with psychoanalysis”. 🤯This essay is making me rethink my views on revealed preference…
Rafe Meager (they/them)Happy friday! open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
I am editing a special issue of EJPE on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations at 250, and the first article by the great Maria Carrasco of the issue has been published, "Subsidiarity and Solidarity in Adam Smith’s Free Society" (abstract in picture.) doi.org/10.23941/ejp...
Journal launch: The *Journal of Mathematical Philosophy* aims to publish high-quality research articles in all areas of mathematical philosophy (broadly understood), offering open access at no cost to authors. Submissions of manuscripts are now welcome at: mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil
Mallon, Ron. “A Field Guide to Social Construction.” Philosophy Compass 2, no. 1 (January 2007): 93–108. doi.org/10.1111/j.17....
A Field Guide to Social ConstructionA wide range of discussions throughout the humanities and social sciences include claims that various phenomena are “socially constructed.” Many academics associate “social constructionism” with the ...doi.org
Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila - Nature NeuroscienceForgotten memories in Drosophila persist as silent memory traces and can be recovered by reminder cues. Manipulating reminders can create false memories, showing that memory reconstruction flexibly in...www.nature.com
Thinking about the Mumford method - Mumford suggests spending a lot of time with a paper in abstract form and presenting on the basis of that abstract before writing out as a whole paper www.nottingham.ac.uk/Arts/Documen...
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there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott BryanChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
Now I need to turn my slides into a paper - there's still time for people to write something and submit to the special issue, deadline the end of September:
THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE? - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic PhilosophyThe notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ...www.argumenta.orgAidan McGlynnToday at Arché
Great piece by @ecallaway.bsky.social A “window into the minds of some of Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourishedNewly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.www.nature.com
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film AdaptationPHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...theonion.comI hate the term “the neoliberal university” but if the shoe fits…
Carl T. BergstromAmazing that there are still university administrators who think that bootlicking will save them. www.vanderbilt.edu/declaration/
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New #preprint: @steffikapsetaki.bsky.social , Tomer Landsberger www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Do individual planaria exposed to the same stressor find the same, or different, transcriptional solutions to that problem? 🧪
Transcriptional Profiling of Planarian Regeneration Habituating to Physiological Stressor Reveals Individual and Collective DynamicsExposure to the potassium channel blocker barium chloride (BaCl₂) causes head degeneration in Dugesia japonica flatworms, followed by regeneration of BaCl₂-insensitive heads, offering a unique model f...www.biorxiv.org
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
July 28 #OA spotlight: Kate Nave's A DRIVE TO SURVIVE @mitpress.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of LifeHow the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston's proposal that the principledirect.mit.eduPhilip LaughlinFor next week's @cogcompneuro.bsky.social conference at NYU, I'll continue to post highlights from the @mitpress.bsky.social OA platform, #D2O. Today's selection is EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE by @macrinephd.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...