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Aliya Rumana

@aliyarumana.bsky.social
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Philosophy of neuro, psych, and machine learning• researching explanation, modelling, and task design • asst prof at UT El Paso • U Arizona alum.

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Aliya Rumana @aliyarumana.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I'm giving a talk on how to settle disagreements about how participants should respond to tasks and why it's relevant to cognitive explanation, especially in judgement and decision-making psychology. register by tomorrow to listen in on Friday 4pm CET/ 10am ET/ 8am MT philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Philosophy of science of decision making - Aliya Rumana (Feb 6)
Dear All,    You're cordially invited to the next installment of the Philosophy of Science of Decision Making seminar series.    Speaker: Aliya Rumana (University o...
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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
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Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
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Aliya Rumana @aliyarumana.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
What is "mechanism-task fit" and why should philosophers and neuroscientists care about it? Check out my post for The Feedback at @socphilneuro.bsky.social thefeedback.blog/2025/04/22/e...
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Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience // By Aliya Rumana
By Aliya RumanaCenter for Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh Abstract:David Marr famously argued that computational theory (i.e., analysis at the computational level) was required to exp…
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Wayne Wu @attninaction.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
An upcoming philosophy of neuroscience conference CFP. The organizers strongly encourage submissions from neuroscientists doing population recording, & in particular short talks that draw on ongoing research to address the theoretical questions highlighted in the CFP: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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A Population Doctrine in Neuroscience Workshop
A Population Doctrine in Neuroscience Workshop (Call for Papers) We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary 2-day workshop held at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsb...
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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
philevents.org/event/show/1... Reminder that there's still time to submit to this nice online conference. Deadline is May 1st, 2025
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3rd Online Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
ISPSM 2025   3rd Annual Online Conference   Call for AbstractsThe International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind(ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on a...
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Aliya Rumana @aliyarumana.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New pub at the British Journal for Philosophy of Science! "Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience" (1/x) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨ Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025 See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details. #philsky
Call for abstract announced for ISPSM 2025: see https://philevents.org/event/show/133458 for more information.
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
SPP 2025 will be at Cornell, June 18-21!
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