Sign in

Love and Philosophy

@lovephilosophy.substack.com
418 followers 370 following 165 posts

Podcast and project posts. Audio on your platform: pod.link/1701577110 Video: www.youtube.com/@waymaking23 Newsletter: lovephilosophy.substack.com Web resources: loveandphilosophy.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research @mpibrain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s #KavliPrize Week in Oslo! We’re so excited to see our Director, Erin Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social receive the Kavli Prize in #Neuroscience tomorrow! @maxplanck.de @kavliprize.bsky.social
031
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
J.J. Scott | Orensha (author & creator) @orensha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Memory isn't playback. Neuroscience describes remembering as a reconstructive process, not the retrieval of a perfect recording. Which makes the question stranger: If memory is reconstructed, what would it actually mean to edit it? PACKET_ANALYSIS::segment.002::MEMORY
121
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 31/08/2026
"Memories last a lifetime, but they're built out of molecules that have very short lifetimes. So how do you get permanence in a system like that?" Meet Erin Schuman, the 2026 Kavli Prize Laureate in #Neuroscience & Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. @mpibrain.bsky.social
youtube.com
Local protein synthesis upended neuroscience | Erin Schuman - Kavli Prize Laureate portrait 2026
YouTube video by The Kavli Prize
0135
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Attention control ability is associated with frontoparietal control network interactions doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience
doi.org
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
0163
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 31/08/2026
🎙️ Molyneux's Enduring Question with Janet Levin and Brian Glenney: Going beyond the usual bounds of rationalist v empiricist to consider body and context #philsky #molyneux #longtermcolleagues #philosophyofmind #epistemic lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/molyneuxs-...
lovephilosophy.substack.com
Molyneux's Enduring Question with Janet Levin and Brian Glenney
Janet & Brian have been discussing Molyneux's Problem for nearly 20 years, since Brian's PhD at USC. In this episode they help us understand why questions about perception matter so much right now.
110
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Happy birthday Iris Murdoch--one of the fierce, playful, and brilliant metaphysical animals in this terrific book (I'm halfway through and loving it) #philsky #biography
2296
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Laura Bradfield (she/her) @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you think sophisticated behavioural design > cutting edge techniques for understanding the brain, you might enjoy my journal club article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Here I discuss Clayton & Dickinson's demonstration of episodic-like memories in scrub jays: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
What scrub jays have taught us about the neural intersection of memory and action selection - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Journal Club, Laura Bradfield discusses a 1998 study showing that scrub jays exhibit episodic-like memory.
0187
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 18/07/2026
🎙️Collaboration Across Art, Philosophy and the Sciences: Johannes (Yogi) Jaeger & Marcus Neustetter on The ZoNE with @perspectivestudio.bsky.social #thirdway #philsky #biology #art #philsci #paradoxis The ZoNE is a collective in Vienna working beyond the usual bounds open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
open.substack.com
Collaboration Across Art, Philosophy and the Sciences: Johannes (Yogi) Jaeger & Marcus Neustetter on The ZoNE
Listen now (135 mins) | Life is paradox. Life is performance. Paradoxis is both.
151
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Laura Maguire @lumagoo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I could have sworn that Quine used the idiom of navigating a course between "the Scylla of x and the Charybdis of y" but an internet search tells me it was actually Fodor who was trying to "sail between the Scylla of a naive mentalism and the Charybdis of a vulgar behaviorism." #PhilSky #Philosophy
131
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...
cambridge.org
The Senses
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses
1212848
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hi all We are starting to post the videos of the "Beyond Computationalism" event on Youtube. You can find them here www.youtube.com/@faridzahnoun1 #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
33115
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you can't join us at our annual conference, you can at least watch the keynotes, which will be both livestreamed (link below) and later posted on our YouTube channel.  Abstract for the first talk in alt text and link to livestream here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... #philsci #philsky
Presidential address
Robin Hendry
Metaphysics and Science: A Call for History

4pm, Tuesday 21 July (UK time) 

ABSTRACT. Scientists and philosophers down the ages have argued that there should be no overlap between science and metaphysics. Others have claimed, to the contrary, that science needs a foundation that only metaphysics can provide. I would challenge both these lines of thought, but the first is the main target of this talk.
Consider the following claims, which are widely accepted:
(1) The Universe was created in a great explosion whose effects remain visible; 
(2) Biological species are the product of a chancy process involving mutation and natural selection;
(3) What happens in our minds is the outcome of neural processes.
Not only are these all metaphysical (in a broad sense): scientific research is also relevant to them, even if they aren’t simple to decide. 
If we understand metaphysics broadly to be concerned with general and abstract questions of existence and reality, science is clearly concerned with metaphysics. But how good is science at answering metaphysical questions like these, and under what conditions? I address that question historically, by looking at two well-known failures (causal determinism and Newtonian mechanics; a claimed refutation of vitalism); and some important but neglected successes (the achievements of 19th-century chemistry). 
I conclude by arguing that metaphysical claims can be supported by science if they have had an active, intimate and indispensable heuristic and conceptual role in the development of science. Otherwise, it’s too soon to tell.
1289
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Are you interested in climate modeling & #ML? Sylvia Wenmackers is looking for a #philsci PhD student to examine #uncertainty & #causality in climate science 👇🌍🌡️ www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Apply by August 31 & please help us spread the word! #philsky #academicsky #MLsky #envhum #HPS
Three-dimensional rendering of the Earth showing the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean. A continuous blue-to-red color scale is mapped across the globe, with cooler colors concentrated at high northern latitudes and warmer colors over much of the tropics and subtropics. Land is shown as shaded gray topography with coastlines outlined in black, against a black background.
11812
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org
Knowing What It Is Like
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like
1416745
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Philosophers of mind (and adjacent): There's still time (until July 31st) to submit your abstract to the 4th @ispsm.bsky.social 's online conference. Information here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philmind
philevents.org
The 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
Call for Abstracts   The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to...
0103
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
The Perspective Studio @perspectivestudio.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Perspective Studio is proud to present our new collaboration with @lovephilosophy.substack.com #paradoxis — join us as we explore paradox as praxis Essay: open.substack.com/pub/communit... Podcasts: 1. Love & Philosophy: youtu.be/1seivxDzTvQ 2. Zoom ZoNE: youtu.be/-NdhiJj9MoE
open.substack.com
Paradoxis
join us as we explore paradox as praxis
045
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...
14733
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tim Crane ( @timcrane.bsky.social ) joined Rebecca Lowe on her podcast 'Working Definition' for a wide-ranging conversation on consciousness: what it is, why "conscious experience" is a bit of a redundant phrase, and why he's sceptical that LLMs are anywhere close to having it. Listen👇️ #philsky
buff.ly
Working Definition episode 10: Consciousness, with Tim Crane
Listen now | the eleventh episode of my philosophy podcast!
033
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Australasian Association of Philosophy @aaphilosophy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Congratulations to Kirsten Mann, Australian National University, Winner of the 2026 Annette Baier Prize. #PhilSky #AAPhilosophy
1101
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Australasian Association of Philosophy @aaphilosophy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Congratulations to Krushil Watene, Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, winner of the 2026 Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize. #AAPhilosophy #PhilSky
0122
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Social epistemology isn’t social. It’s not even epistemology. It’s an irresistible opening; at least, I failed to resist it." Excellent work by @neillevy.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/0020... 🧵
ABSTRACT
The social turn in epistemology was driven, in important part, by the recognition that we are dependent on testimony for much of our knowledge. But this dependence renders us vulnerable if we are unable to distinguish reliable testimony from unreliable. With the debate over echo chambers as a case study, I argue that social epistemology remains deeply individualist: it is driven by the search for individualistic foundations by reference to which we can assess testimony for and by ourselves. I argue that this search for individualistic foundations is a fantasy: our capacity to assess the reliability of evidence and informants is constituted by the dispositions that are constitutive of our echo chambers. Social epistemology must finally be truly social, and live with the vulnerability that comes from epistemic dependence.
23513
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!
438314134420
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 05/07/2026
⭐️ new conversation with Atlantic journalist Elissa Strauss, author of When You Care. How she found philosophy through motherhood’s embodied realities, attention, and moments of union and estrangement. #Gilligan, #NelNoddings, #EvaKittay, Iris Murdoch, #SimoneWeil #unselfing #careethics
110
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 04/07/2026
“The world is not a machine. We have no dominion. We must learn to collaborate with the rest of nature, living & abiotic.” —Stuart Kauffman
noemamag.com
Emergence Is Not Engineering | NOEMA
The universe creatively sets the rules for its own becoming.
0104
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
The Perspective Studio @perspectivestudio.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We are collaborating with @lovephilosophy.substack.com on many fronts:
023
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
📣 Call for papers & symposia for the 2027 Congress for Logic, Methodology, & Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST) has been released! The meeting will be held in Kobe, Japan, from August 23-28, 2027 🇯🇵 Proposals should be submitted by November 15, 2026 clmpst2027.org #philsci
clmpst2027.org
CLMPST 2027 | 18th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Website of the 18th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
02716
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 07/06/2026
🎙️’What I’m suggesting is that when we look at the way cell biology, molecular biology, and developmental biology have progressed …we can see that any simple one-to-one or linear relationship between genotype and phenotype has become untenable.’ #Physicist chemist #science writer Philip Ball #meaning
050
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 07/06/2026
🎙️🎥Rethinking investment as a sign of care. Is what we put our money toward what we want for the future? Episode 87 with Jenna.
020
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📸 A few moments from Tuesday's presentation at Trinity College Dublin: "Author Meets Critics: Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging". An international symposium to discuss Samantha Fazekas’ new book, Arendt's reconstructed theory of judgment and its implications for political life.
152
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Here is one more podcast interview. I will stop bothering you with these for a while now. The next one I have is scheduled for September with @lovephilosophy.substack.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT0B...
youtube.com
The Self Is Not Alone: How We Are Shaped by Each Other | Dr. Anthony Chemero
YouTube video by Business Talk
0194
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 18/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/communit... #philsky #cogsci #hippocampus #neurosky
open.substack.com
the Navigational Approach to Mind
Mind is the navigational action of bodies, from the individual to the ecological
031
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 07/05/2026
🎙📚What books and relationships and poems and writers have been your WayMarkers in life? with A. A. Kostas #writers #writeSky #amreading #cairn #waymarkers #waymaking
open.substack.com
What are your Way-Markers? A walk through writing with A. A. Kostas (including Chris McCandless, C.S. Lewis, Robert Pirsig, Thomas Merton, D.T. Suzuki & the Cloud of Unknowing)
Listen now (98 mins) | Maybe you already know the way. Have you noticed the signs yet?
080
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Cognoscenti @cogwbur.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Bits of joy, and odes to connection -- those are things people want right now, writes Cog editor Cloe Axelson. spr.ly/63320BBwS2E
spr.ly
Listing life's little joys
"Every Brilliant Thing” is getting lots of attention on Broadway this spring. "Clearly, these bits of joy, this ode to connection, is something people of the world -- or at least theater-going people of the world -- want right now," writes Cog editor Cloe Axelson.
031
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 30/04/2026
🎙🎥 Great new episode on PUNK, TECH & CARE in phenomenology and technology with philosopher B. Scot Rousse #philsky #tech #care #psycSci #techphil #digitalethics #techethics #punk open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
open.substack.com
Punk, Tech & Care: B. Scot Rousse on Being Human in the AI Age
Listen now | with Hubert Dreyfus, Fernando Flores, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard
151
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 23/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/communit...
open.substack.com
Magic Circles never Close
Johan Huizinga’s Magic Circle of Harry Frankfurt’s Care is Always Open: Fragments Before Midnight (and then the day after): On Birds, Dogs, Bullshit, Berger and Bishop
020
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 20/04/2026
#84 There is No Average Individual: The Great Psychology Delusion with Marek McGann #philsky #PsycSci 🎙conversation about the new book by @craigspeelman.bsky.social and @marekmcgann.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy Podcast and more at: open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
open.substack.com
#84 There is No Average Individual: The Great Psychology Delusion with Marek McGann
Why the Mean Misleads and Multiplicity Matters
050
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/10/2025
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵
olivia.science
Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
10492174
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 11/04/2026
⭐️ If you are a theatre person and in or near NYC this weekend, come to the Quad on 13th street April 11th at 6:45pm for ACTING with Sophie Fiennes (and Q&A with Andrea).
open.substack.com
Performance of our lives: Is acting inherent to being human?
⭐️Come to the Quad Sophie Fiennes, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Macbeth, Cheek by Jowl, The Actor and the Target, The Actor and the Space, Acting
020
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 08/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/lovephil... #puzzles #philsky #care #games
open.substack.com
#83 Wisdom Gates: Paradox, Care and Discovery with Puzzle-Maker Jasen Robillard
Listen now | every community is an invitation to care about something together, but what?
050
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 02/04/2026
#81 Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin #philsky open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
open.substack.com
#81 Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin
HOW NOT TO BE A ZOMBIE: what is significant & how do we change our minds?
071
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 01/04/2026
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Scilla Elworthy champions “the vital importance of the heart for all we’re trying to address and change in today’s world.” May seem too intimate or uncomfortable to talk about the heart so openly; can we sit with that difficulty & find power open differently? #love #peace
open.substack.com
Philosophy of the Heart with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy
With clear eyes and an open heart: dealing with inner & outer bullies
021
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 22/08/2025
🎙the Core of Loving & Knowing with @participha.bsky.social Philosopher Hanne De Jaegher discusses life experiences and how they led to her academic journey in cognitive science and the scholarship behind ‘participatory sense-making’ #psm #phil #embodied #sensemaking #varela #loveandphilosophy
open.substack.com
The Core of Knowing is Loving with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher
Listen now | Episode #68
1114
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
I Am I - Earth @iami.earth · 01/04/2026
De Jaegher's work on participatory sense-making brought something crucial to cognitive science: the idea that meaning isn't first computed internally then communicated. It's generated between bodies in real time. Two people in conversation are literally co-thinking.
011
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
The Perspective Studio @perspectivestudio.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
There's an essay describing our work, published on @lovephilosophy.substack.com, if you want to know more: lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/the-perspe...
lovephilosophy.substack.com
The Perspective Studio
A Collaborative Practice for a Fragmented World
122
Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 01/04/2026
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Scilla Elworthy champions “the vital importance of the heart for all we’re trying to address and change in today’s world.” May seem too intimate or uncomfortable to talk about the heart so openly; can we sit with that difficulty & find power open differently? #love #peace
open.substack.com
Philosophy of the Heart with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy
With clear eyes and an open heart: dealing with inner & outer bullies
021
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Can games become a way of remembering? Dr Aramiha Harwood (Ngāpuhi) explores how tabletop game design grounded in Māori values can transmit knowledge, identity and storytelling. 📅 Wed 22 Apr · 16:00–17:30 📍 University of Stirling + online Register here forms.gle/vKYdq9kGEmLJ...
084
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Sabrina Coninx @sconinxphil.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 My colleague Guido Löhr and I are excited that our paper 'Rethinking Disruptive Technologies: Benefits, Harms, and Injustices of Human Niche Construction' has been published in 'Philosophy & Technology' - Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
Rethinking Disruptive Technologies: Benefits, Harms, and Injustices of Human Niche Construction - Philosophy & Technology
Philosophy & Technology - Disruptive technologies are a key theme in economics, the philosophy of technology, and situated cognition - yet these debates remain largely disconnected. This paper...
1112
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"how do you get yourself to change your mind" podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/l...
podcasts.apple.com
Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin of USC
Podcast Episode · Love & Philosophy · 18 March · 2h 4m
021
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Hiott and Ng (both Hegel scholars) discuss the mystery of contradiction as a portal into holding paradox
031
Reposted by Love and Philosophy
Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Elizabeth #Anscombe was born otd in 1919. For our episode last year, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to learn more about her life & times from another #Oxford philosopher, Roger Teichmann, who met Anscombe as a child: www.youtube.com/watch?v=38mP... #PhilSky #WiseWomen #WomensHistoryMonth
youtube.com
Elizabeth Anscombe: Roving Philosophical Report
YouTube video by Philosophy Talk
0134