My paper, "Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology," was accepted by the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, which is nice. It's on section 1 of the first Enquiry, both as a manifesto for a future science and as a guide to the rest of the Enquiry philpapers.org/rec/JACHOT-4
John Lubbock (1883) on individuality of bees. It's always a bit sad when people write that individual differences in animal psychology are a recent discovery. Using the cutesy label of "animal personality" doesn't make it novel. The study of the phenomenon is as old as the study of animal behaviour.
The schedule and RSVP link for the CAIC launch event is now live on our website 🚀 Check the schedule and RSVP to attend ✏️ caic.centers.purdue.edu
I encountered this Bursaria truncatella after it "inhaled" a Paramecium. I was hoping to see the Paramecium get sealed into a vacuole, but instead it finally managed to escape! My students have nicknamed Bursaria "Micro Roomba." LOL
#microscope #science #microscopy #iteachbiology
Harvest Moon: tennis of love (and crop conditions)
Just out: my account of an extended thought experiment conducted by Dan Dennett and me. Open access. The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I honestly can't tell which way you mean: which is better? I grew up with friends that didn't like in-arena because they couldn't see the puck!!
Crazy that more Americans in our department like hockey than Canadians 😡
Some of these views of philosophers seem totally wrong to me as well... I hope to never be a philosopher who forms such one-dimensional impressions of others.
One of the best of all time and a favorite player growing up.
Obviously saddened we didn't get gold. But the moment of holding up Gaudreau's jersey and seeing his parents in the stands -- made it all worth the loss. I saw the USA team also brought out Gaudreau's kids on the ice for the team photo. Wonderful.
Loretta wants you to know that we'll be heading to The Ohio State University soon where I'll be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy 🥹 The OSU phil department is absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to go do philosophy with them!
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Congratulations Danielle!!!!!! This is so exciting!!!
So happy to see this paper published! It represents by far the most fun and enriching experience I've had as a grad student. Reading philosophy is fun, but spending most of my week in a lab with dogs of all breeds and personalities? Nothing beats that.
Couldn't have asked for better mentors!!!
My counterexample: Outer Wilds, such that value(G, S) > value(G) + value(S).
Let P be a game with Gameplay G and Story S. Define two agent types:
Type A values S as reward for engaging G, i.e. actions maximize value(G->S).
Type B values G as reward and treats S as interference, i.e. actions maximize value(S->G).
Thus A: value(S|G) > value(G|S),
and B: value(G|S) > value(S|G)
If you are in the Baltimore area and would like to help us with our effort to understand how dogs think, sign your dog up to participate in our studies: www.social-cognitive-origins.com/participate-...
We build on seminal work w/ human infants by @hyogweon.bsky.social & @miteccl.bsky.social but find no evidence that dogs can correctly infer the social or physical causes for a failed action, even when interacting with a highly familiar kind of object (pet gates)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
My high school doesn't even have a wiki to look up who went to it
Bergson’s view of memory has largely been lost in recent philosophical discussion Doudja Boumaza is at the Palace today, with a strong case for bringing him back!
#philsky #philscisky
Trust in leadership is essential to success
A new study found that PhD students who had greater trust in their graduate advisor finished their first year more motivated, higher in well-being, and more academically successful than those with lower advisor trust.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
📢 New Paper 🚨
Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.
In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.
bit.ly/4kvLOwA
My favorite sci-fi movie series
This looks great
@jglavin.bsky.social in the sunglasses makes this CAIC talk look extra cool
APA member Bas van Fraassen has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Congratulations! dailynous.com/2026/01/21/b...
I lose because I sometimes think I'm good at certain games and then realize I am scum compared to such gods
Honestly... Might exist at one of my Canadian alma maters
Dreaming of a department where that's the reading list for quals
This makes me want to play Super Mega Baseball again
