Postdoc at Macquarie University and affiliate at University of Cambridge (HPS): Philosophy of biology/cognitive science, learning, memory, evolutionary theory, MTE, agency, slime mould, varanids, anticipatory models
Matthew Sims
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I'm extremely excited to be taking part in this workshop at the University of Murcia next week!
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Re-reading Bateson and Gluckman's Plasticity and Robustness. Poignant and masterful prose: “...no phenotype is such that only genes are needed for its development in the sense that they could, like Japanese flowers, be dropped into water and open up” (Bateson and Gluckman 2011, p. 12).
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I'm very excited to take part in the workshop 'Lineages, Complexity, and Evolution' at the Universidad de Oviedo. I'll be presenting a paper that Pierrick Bourrat and I have been working on. Looking forward to engaging with some fantastic philosophers of biology.
Mindscape 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Mind, and Morality. Do social structures, like eyes and fins, arise independently from evolutionary pressures? #MindscapePodcast
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The Institute of Philosophy I at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, seeks applications for 1 PostDoc position (3 yr) and 2 PhD positions (4 yr) in the Project BOTLEG – Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria”, PI Dr. Jan Baedke.
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This brilliant monograph is now available! Huge congrats to Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282...
A first co-authored piece with the brilliant @hamishlinehan.bsky.social: Natural Born Historians open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
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Hamish Linehan (University of Stirling) and Matthew Sims (Macquarie University)
In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic.
This project sets the foundation for a more inclusive, theoretically sound, and socially just botany of the 21st century. Herbaria hold ca. 400 million preserved plant specimens worldwide. They are vi...
