On April 24, there is an online workshop featuring emerging young philosophers in the Asian region. My PhD student Soto Michida will give a talk entitled "A Deep Learning Perspective on Teleosemantics." He is doing fantastic work. Check it out!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Many thanks to Hanti Lin and Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social for handling the paper!
Our process causation paper is published in Synthese! We propose that process causation (a la Salmon, Dowe, MDC new mechanists) can be modeled using a category-theoretic framework.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'll visit the LMU Center for advanced studies from June 22 - July 17, and will give a talk on June 24.
www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
"If you read only one book on the philosophy of statistics, make it this one. Otsuka’s compact yet comprehensive treatment (under 190 pages) provides a uniquely integrated view of the major statistical frameworks that shape modern data science and AI."
crowintelligence.org/2025/03/19/s...
My article "What does it mean to understand AI?" is out now in Harvard Data Science Review! I discuss mechanistic interpretability, representation engineering, world models, and Potemkin understanding from philosophical perspectives.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/w1tfg5lx...
New on the Archive:
Otsuka, Jun (2026) What Machine Learning Tells Us About the Mathematical Structure of Concepts. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29712/
A full-text view-only version is here: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Very nice by Jun Otsuka @junotk.bsky.social and Hayato Saigo: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
about causal interventions/do calculus via string diagram surgery
Causal Discovery of Synchronous Neural Oscillations based on Jacobian-informed VAR-LiNGAM
Hiroshi Yokoyama, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Shohei Shimizu
bioRxiv 2026.04.28.721377; doi: doi.org/10.64898/202...