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his last ever philosophy paper, he claims! the man is taking retirement seriously

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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I can promise that, when this book exists, it will be full of very cool papers.

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i can guarantee that i've never given a job talk without a fresh coffee stain on my shirt

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this rules iff there are fewer spots than prize winners and it leads to an extremely petty rivalry between a chemist and an economist who would otherwise never meet

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makes sense. ryle isnt as silly about subjective experience as people like to make out, but i wouldnt go so far as to say that he's worth reading on that topic

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ryle explicitly denied having gotten to the bottom of the issue(s), but the achievement of the book is to draw out a bunch of the subtleties there (at least as much as it is to refute dualism or anything like that)

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no, definitely doesn't follow that performance is all there is. rather, the whole book is about how the distinction is (or at least a host of nearby distinctions are) subtle and vexing

a little book called the concept of mind

Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 22/09/2026

i just wanna know if he showed the fly the way out

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 22/09/2026

you're only criticizing the press release because you're using your breathing brain instead of your poetry brain

Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 18/09/2026

there's this from keith frankish: keithfrankish.github.io/articles/Fra... i know of an excellent draft by another philosopher that digs into the technical details, but it doesn't look like it's appeared yet

keithfrankish.github.io

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 18/09/2026

a priori, philosophy is a waste of time

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper! “Order of Explanation: Having it Both Ways” is now forthcoming in Noûs. It’s been a really fun paper to write and I’m stoked to share it.

philpapers.org

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 11/09/2026

when we met at a conference as grad students, jake asked a great question about my anti-fodor talk, listened to my reply, and then declared "you're, like, my arch-nemesis" afraid the common ground we've since achieved can only mean we've gotten old

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 09/09/2026

with all the compute tied up in winning fields medals and running society and stuff, maybe we humans can get jobs as calculators again

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a very cool new book! Read it! Teach it!

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a fabulous volume. I enjoyed the chance to think about how episodic memory fits into standard phil mind (spoiler: it doesn’t), and the other chapters are are all so fun and creative. A testament tk Devin and Louise’s lovely vision of philosophy of mind today. Highly recommend!

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 07/09/2026

TFW your brother in law weaves your art into his book about Philosophy 😍 (Also love having my work out there in the world like this…)

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You can download a pdf of the book's frontmatter (including the introductory chapter) here: philpapers.org/rec/CURIPO #philsky

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Chapter 20 features @jglavin.bsky.social, @tim-elmo.bsky.social, and @tonychemero.bsky.social proposing that studying how to build minds requires paying close attention to social dynamics.

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Chapter 19 features Victor Fernández Castro, Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo, and Justin Garson critiquing how everybody from ordinary folks to psychiatrists think about neurodiversity.

Chapter 18 features me and Carrie Figdor arguing about whether mindedness is itself a mind-dependent property.

Part V is called HOW WE TALK ABOUT MINDS

Chapter 17 features @aliboyle.bsky.social and @kristinandrews.bsky.social diagnosing the causes of (and proper ways of responding to) abiding disagreements between animal cognition researchers.

Chapter 16 features Riana Betzler and @shannonspaulding.bsky.social discussing the many sciences of empathy, and whether the lack of a consensus definition should inform how people think about empathy in everyday life.

Chapter 15 features Zina Ward and Muhammand Ali Khalidi considering the state of the evidence concerning whether the female brain and male brain are natural kinds.

Chapter 14 features Louise Daoust and Mohan Matthen arguing about whether mental capacities have objective functions.

Part IV is called STUDYING NEURAL AND COGNITIVE KINDS

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Chapter 13 features @thebusyowl.bsky.social and @josephfgough.bsky.social contemplating self-awareness and the importance of human relationships in the context of chatbot psychotherapy.

Chapter 12 features Luis Favela and Mazviita Chirimuuta canvassing the senses in which brains might be said to be computers, and then arguing that brains are not literally computers.

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Chapter 11 features Ben Baker and Catherine Stinson critiquing a broad range of efforts to define and design "artificial general intelligence".

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Chapter 10 features Osman Attah and @cameronbuckner.bsky.social breaking down what we know—as well as the startling amount that we don’t know—about how large language models work.

Part III is called CHATBOTS AND REPLICANTS

Chapter 9 features Shivam Patel and @daniel-gregory85.bsky.social debating the nature of the little voice in your head.

Chapter 8 features @lejardinbleu.bsky.social and David Cerbone mulling over the apparent tension between the generality of thought and the finitude of human nature.

Chapter 7 features Amanda Corris and Gary Hatfield examining the range of ways in which environments and bodies relate to minds.

Chapter 6 features Santiago Amaya and @myrtomylopoulos.bsky.social positing motivation and control as core features of agency.

Part II is called ACTING AND THINKING