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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 6h

Now up Alan Love (U Minnesota) on organisms and agency as control mechanism

Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 9h

Philosophy of biology workshop on biological agency at @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social, currently with a talk by Colin Young (U Minnesota) on cybernetic theory of goal-directed systems and their origin in the universe #philsi #philsky #biology

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I stopped playing after high school, and the latest games weren’t even new then 🤣 (tbh also played some later versions but they weren’t imprinting on my soul that deeply)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

Google: “Why reviewer 2 unhelpful and mean?“ Maybe I should stop talking about concepts and brains and join the promising field of international foot and ankle research 🤔

Text showing an email invitation to the International Journal of Foot and Ankle

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

It was a great honor and pleasure to host Nancy Cartwright in Bielefeld. In her lecture at the Institute for Studies of Science „In Defense of Ambiguity“ - that we need polysemous terms to study things we care about, like „poverty“, which has different meanings/measures in different contexts (1/2)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

Finishing an exciting workshop on concepts and normativity today @iphilluh.bsky.social with a commentary response format: seen here are my comments on Bryce Huebner‘s work on dynamic views of concepts and minds, discussing great work by @smellosopher.bsky.social amongst many others! #cogsci #philsky

Speaker Philipp Haueis in front of a wall displaying a power point slide entitled „concepts without joints, brains without maps, and three images: an orange cognitive priority map, a picture of Dharmakirti, and a picture of an elephant.
Below text saying „workshop on concepts and normativity“, Leibniz University Hannover, June 23 2026.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026

Conference tour next episode: today I presented joint work with @davidcolaco.bsky.social on metabolism and cognition, and what is means for notions of medium (in)dependence of computation. Conclusion: we need better definitions of these views, to know whether metabolism influences computation! (1/2)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

Big day today: I completed the final step to get the Habilitation, the highest academic title in German academia. Besides a version of my book as the written portion, I talked about mathematical models of metabolism and cognition (in German). I’m officially a „Privatdozent“ now 🤓🧠 #philsky #philsci

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 07/05/2026

Continuing my presentation tour, I talked about work from my book project “The Conceptual Fabric of Science” @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social. I combine cognitive linguistics and my own patchwork approach to scientific concepts to argue that polysemy in science has communicative and epistemic value (1/2)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026

I had a great time presenting my work on comparing biological and artificial cognitive systems at the PAIR (Philosophy and AI Research) at FAU Erlangen Nürnberg today! Based on the joint BBS target article with @davidcolaco.bsky.social, I ask (1/2)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026

Teaching: Phil of neuroscience class: 15 students, philosophy of AI class: 95 students. Huge change to when I studied. The neuro-hype is over. The brain is too complicated to figure out, haha! So everybody is working on AI until the next winter. #philsky, #cogsci, #neuroskyence, #ai

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 25/03/2026

Ingas a great time presenting and discussing my work on patchwork concepts and the dynamics of scientific understanding at the HPS department in Athens. Thanks to all participants for the great feedback and Theodore Arabatzis for hosting me! #philsci #edusky #cogsci #philskyence

Photo showing Philipp Haueis in front of an audience pf philosophers, behind him a slide with a conceptual model of the term „cortical column“ in neuroscience, showing a Greek temple to illustrate that neuroscientists in the 1970s thought that the brain was similarly organized into vertical pillars.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026

Academic events in Berlin (2/2): Book launch of „Biomedical Visions“ at ICI Berlin, organized by @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and many others, with my Bielefeld colleague Lara Keuck amongst others!

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026

Academic events in Berlin (1/2): Integrating explanatory paradigms in neuroscience at TU Berlin , organized by @beakr.bsky.social, with talks by @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social , @tonychemero.bsky.social, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social my collaborator @davidcolaco.bsky.social and more

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026

Finished last revisions my book „The Conceptual Fabric of Science“ - this is an image from the chapter on the epistemic utility of patchwork concepts for describing, classifying or explaining phenomena. (1/2)

Image showing several uses of the term „cortical column“ and how it failed to bring a building block in the brain into focus for neuroscientists: the term does not describe discrete functional unit, but various kinds of structures in specific domains that vary in functional significance.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026

My paper on „Developing concepts for neuroscience: a philosophical toolkit“ with Daniel Margulies was just accepted for publication @ejneuroscience.bsky.social We argue that the success and failure of concepts to understand the brain fundamentally depends on our epistemic goals (1/2)

Image shows a brain, with arrows going from epistemic goals to three boxes labeled introducing concepts, revising concepts and retiring/revising concepts, because the goals shape when these forms of developing concepts succeed or fail to advance our neuroscientific understand the brain.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 29/10/2025

This is why it’s fun to teach on your research: today we discussed a chapter of my book on patchwork concepts in science. The students asked if we try can build a patchwork, and so we used the case of “gene“ from the previous session, which I hadn’t analyzed explicitly before! #philsci

A chalkboard showing a patchwork model of the gene concept. On the left is the classical gene patch, with the technique of cross-breeding, scale of whole organisms, and the property of patterns of inheritance. On the right is the molecular gene patch, with X Ray crystallography as technique, the molecular scale and the property of DNA. The patches partially overlap because the DNA is involved in intergenerational inheritance between parent and offspring, but also explains how proteins are produced while offspring develops.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/07/2025

Finally, Patrick McGivern pronouncing the Metabolic Turn in philosophy of cognition, with work on the role of metabolism for non-neural cognition, such as bacteria chemotaxis (4/4) Thanks to all speakers and participants for the great Q&A! #philsky #neuroskyence #cognition #metabolism

Philosopher Patrick McGivern, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, explaining the „metabolic turn“, i.e. the importance of metabolism for understanding cognition

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/07/2025

Turning to evolution, Matthew Sims (in joint work w Marta Halina) explained how predictive brain models may have evolved from corollary discharge, which itself resulted from the need to distinguish external input from sensory feedback once nervous systems relied on sensorimotor integration (3/4)

Philosopher Matthew Sims, wearing a black shirt and beige pants showing a slide on ctenophores, a creature with external passive sensory receptors and epithelial sheets for locomotion

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/07/2025

Next was a talk by @jtheriault.bsky.social presenting a metabolic model of „activity“ in neuroimaging, suggesting that stimulus elicited BOLD responses Track prediction error processing in the brain, but not baseline metabolic load related to processing predictions (2/4)

Neuroscientist Jordan Theriault wearing a blue shirt and black pants pointing at a slide that shows the relation between glucose metabolism and signals measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/07/2025

Had a great session on the relation between metabolism and cognition at BSPS Glasgow, organized by @davidcolaco.bsky.social . We presented joint work on using metabolism to constrain and generate cognitive models (1/2)

Philosopher David Colaço, eating a black suit jacket, white shirt and black tie in front of an image with a white balloon with „energy“ written in blue, a blue sky and white clouds on the back, some green tree canopies in front.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 18/06/2025

As the semester days get hot, our Phil neuroscience readings are hot off the press: today we talked about Dan Burnston’s latest: epistemic reduction of ‚decision‘ to accumulate to bound models in neuroscience. We discussed which aspects of decision can or cannot be reduced by these models (1/2)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 31/05/2025

Another gem from our Phil Neuroscience seminar: Mazviita Chirimuuta on canonical computations and explanation in neuroscience: link.springer.com/article/10.1... We discussed what distinguishes mechanistic from minimal model explanations, how to identify neural details relevant to explanation (1/2)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 07/05/2025

Today I taught the paper on “memory transfer” by the great @davidcolaco.bsky.social in my class at @iphilluh.bsky.social . The was phil sci at its best: general conceptual work (what is a scientific phenomenon?) with a concrete historical case on interesting science, a normative angle 1/2

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025

And closing today: keynote by Inkeri Koskinen on problems with measures to increase diversity in science , such as diversity washing and hijacking

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025

Melinda Bonnie Fagan on particularism, a novel view of explanation that takes the radical diversity of explanatory styles in scientific practice as a starting point for philosophy of science, unity is achieved by patching together explanations from different meso-level communities.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025

Sapna Kumar on the role of indigenous knowledge in the IPCC reports on climate change

Philosopher Sapnar Kumar talking about on the role of indigenous knowledge in the International Panel on Climate Change

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025

Here is one of the workshop organizers, Anastasiia Lazutkina, talking about mainstream and alternative approaches to cosmological theories in physics

The philosopher Anastasiia Lazutkina in front of a screen displaying diagrams of the origins of galaxies merging from other galaxies.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025

Fantastic talks so far at the epistemic diversity, pluralism and progress workshop in Wuppertal. Here @oscarw.bsky.social is talking about pluralism about philosophical views of scientific progress.

The philosopher Oscar Westerblad in front of a screen displaying problems with monism in philosophy discussions about progress.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 25/03/2025

Here’s are images from my GWP co-symposiasts Markus Kunze and Isabella-Sarto Jackson

A man standing on a podium, pointing to a slide about analogies and model organisms in neuroscience

A female neuroscientist on a podium speaking about fragmentation of knowledge on science, which is shown on a slide to the audience

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 20/01/2025

I finished drafting the last chapter of my book on conceptual development. Now looking forward to discuss it with students on Wednesday in our seminar on conceptual change! #philsci #philsky

A picture of a computer screen, showing the beginning of a word page with the title „What is conceptual impact? Word choice and conceptual engineering in science and society“ in bold letters. The rest shows the abstract and a numbered table of contents.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024

Miguel Ohnesorge on quantifying value-laden concepts: why we should not align with stakeholder values #PSA24

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024

Earlier: Marina Dubova on how neuroscientists explore the brain and their assumptions in this process

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024

Next up: @ufeest.bsky.social on normative challenges of exploratory research, and how psychologists conceptualize personality #PSA24

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024

Next: @ufeest.bsky.social on the normative challenge of exploration, and how psychologists research multifaceted kinds like personality #PSA24

Uljana Feest in Front of a slide on normative challenges of exploratory research

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024

Our symposium on exploratory research is in full swing! Currently speaking: @jolienfrancken.bsky.social on new ways of building cognitive ontologies in neuroscience #PSA24

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 15/11/2024

Tomàs Ryan on the neuroscience (and philosophy of) engrams and information storage on the brain #PSA24

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 15/11/2024

Felipe de Brigard starting off the session on network science and explanation in neuroscience and elsewhere #PSA24

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 14/11/2024

Marina di Marco (collab w Aja Watkins) on the many ways scientists measure biological sex #PSA24

Marina di Marco in front of a slide showing a table on how epidemiologists measure biological sex.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 14/11/2024

Joeri Witteven on the performative effects of downlisting threatened species (e.g. snow leopard) whose continuation depends on our conservation practices #PSA24

Joeri Witteven in front of a slide showing a snow leopard and a diagram shifting from orange circle (endangered) to a yellow circle (not endangered)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 14/11/2024

Stuart Firestein starting #PSA24 with the cave allegory for neuroscientists

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 08/11/2024

Preparing my PSA presentation: re-reading classic 1970s neuroscience by Hubel and Wiesel while listening to contemporary psychedelic rock (Banangun - The gift of the open hand) - groovy fit m.youtube.com/watch?v=XXaA...

The neuroscientist David Hubel operating a projector, together with his colleague Torsten Wiesel in their laboratory

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 23/10/2024

In June we organized a wonderful interdisciplinary workshop on concepts for understanding brain organization in Paris. Now the first videos of talks are online! (1/3)

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 22/10/2024

Last month I had the pleasure to be part of a panel on philosophy & climate activism with @frieschmitz.bsky.social @mueller-salo.bsky.social, organized by Tanja Rechnitzer & Matthias Rolffs. We talked about individual vs. collective action, impact in the classroom & tensions btw research & activism.

Five people sitting next to each other and discussing about climate activism and philosophy, looking thoughtful and engaged.

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 24/09/2024

Today I gave a talk at DKPhil Münster on strategic ambiguity in science and politics, which is part of the last chapter of my book on norms of conceptual development in science (Disclaimer: the image may not adequately reflect the state of the project 😅) #philsci #edusky #philsky

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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 20/06/2024

Yesterday was the last day of my visiting scholarship at the HPS department in Cambridge. Thanks to Hasok Chang and his fantastic research group for discussing my book project on the norms of conceptual development and patchwork concepts!

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