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Matej Kohár

@matejkohar.bsky.social
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Philosopher of cognition at TU Berlin, SF&F reader, metalhead. Current project: www.merex-project.org

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nirfresco.bsky.social @nirfresco.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.
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PLM Workshop Traces and Engrams: Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives
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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
J.J. Gibson with some truth bombs in Ch. 3 of The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception: "A special case of the ground is a floor." "A stick is an elongated object." More seriously, this attempt at constructing in effect a phenomenological taxonomy of the lived world is fascinating. #philsky
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New paper alert! My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky doi.org/10.1007/s108...
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The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View - Journal for General Philosophy of Science
This paper argues that the so-called scaling-up problem (representation-hunger problem) can be resolved within the mechanistic framework of explanation. Emphasising the problem’s character as an empir...
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
"The situation in France isn't as bad as people think it is. It's just that the French are stubbornly opposed to paying taxes, and so their governments keep on failing." "Cogwheels" by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (orig. publ. 1927) Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
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tom @thomasefleming.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Economist’s Off The Charts newsletter sometimes shares the more fun sides of data. It’s not all a socio-economic snooze fest. This colour “Rorschach test” is an example, created by an AI and neuroscience researcher: ismy.blue Here’s @alexselbyb.bsky.social results, what’s up with his brain?!
Graph comparing color perception of green and blue hues. The left side indicates "Your green" and the right side indicates "Your blue," with a boundary marked at hue 176, showing that turquoise is perceived as green by a specific individual.
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Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
We --the MeReX-project-- are organizing a conference on mechanistic, computational, and representational explanation in cognitive neuroscience at TU Berlin in February 2025! 🧠 Come and join us all! Registration opens in about a week. further info: www.merex-project.org #philsci #neuroscience
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Read China Mieville's Embassytown recently. Highly recommended to anyone looking for linguistics inspired SF where the premise is not just "What if Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, amirite?".
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Academic pet-peeve: Writing "pace", when you mean "contra".
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
And today marks another day in my professional life that I wish I had taken a stats class in my BA instead of Latin. Though I did enjoy watching the suffering of my Psychology studying friends with smug superiority at the time, they do get the last laugh after all...
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Just a few days left to submit an abstract for our February workshop on neuroscientific explanation in Berlin. The deadline is this Sunday (29th September). For more info, visit: neuroexp2025.sciencesconf.org #PhilosophyOfScience #neuroscience
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NeuroExp 2025 - Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience: From empirical case studies to philosophical analysis - Sciencesconf.org
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
I'm attending the #DKPhil (German Congress of Philosophy) in Münster this week and giving a talk on my recently published paper on virtual causation tomorrow afternoon. If you are around, come have a look!
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Matej Kohár @matejkohar.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
My new paper on "Illusionism about virtual causation" is out now at Inquiry with Open Access. Check it out at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philosophy #VR
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Illusionism about virtual causation
The question whether there are virtual objects grows more salient, as virtual reality (VR) technology becomes commercially viable. Arguments for realism about virtual objects rely on virtual causat...
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