It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
Interdisciplinary name tag bling
(comparative /computational /developmental /philosophy /vision science! )
The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25)
We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics!
If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️
Registration is open until April 23rd: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49983/
There's also a public event (presentations + panel, Friday 24 April @3:30-5pm) where you can come get a taste of what it looks like to study these topics from the perspectives of comparative, computational, & developmental psychology, vision science, & philosophy:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50692/
World models in natural and artificial intelligence royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3... - super interesting and very timely collection of articles on what it means to understand the world...
New #vol39issue4! First is Joshua Rust, exploring what a predictive processing account would look like if it started with the highly coupled representations carried by our evolutionary ancestors and other non-human organisms doi.org/10.1080/0951... #evolution #philsky #philpsy
ICYMI: Matthew Sims reviews Jan Baedke’s The Organism
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #hpbio #philsky
Mariel Goddu
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities