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! ⬇️
Interdisciplinary name tag bling
(comparative /computational /developmental /philosophy /vision science! )
Registration is open until April 23rd: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49983/
How predictable is evolution? Replicated C. elegans experiments show environmental differences and population bottlenecks jointly shape the repeatability of adaptation doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit: Wikimedia
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...
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
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
CRASSH
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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
