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Conversation with Marc Bekoff about our animal joy project: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
An amazing collection of primary sources on how science is represented and how these representations evolved #histsci #philsci #hps
What a dream it would be to work with Alice and in beautiful St Andrews!! Share with anyone you think might be interested!!
A colour illustration of a Gentoo penguin facing right.
A colour illustration of a crested penguin facing right.
It's #PenguinAwarenessDay! Today we consider the penguin, their excellent vibes, and the threats they face. We can also enjoy these illustrations by Vieillot and Oudart in 'La Galerie des Oiseaux' (1820) of a Gentoo and Crested penguin.
Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
Love this new evidence of the cognitive sophistication of cows and hope that it might make a few people rethink whether they want meat on their plates
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
With all this talk of cow tools now's a good time to mention my new paper with @abigaildesmond.bsky.social titled 'Why don't all animals use tools?' 🧪🛠️🐮
It's in press at the journal Animal Behaviour & Cognition. You can get a pdf of the accepted version from the research page of my site 🧵 1/
Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci
Excited for this paper to be out, literal years of hard work by Kozzy. Excitingly, my first last author paper!
This work came from joining the Kinds of Intelligence group at Cambridge and being given time by @martahalina.bsky.social to explore and cross disciplines. Hard work but very fun! 🧪 🤖🧠
How can we rigorously investigate the common-sense capabilities of agentic AI systems? How can we build better models of non-human animal cognition?
(Re-)introducing the Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research!
Hey! This is my first post on Bluesky. Researchers be interested in my new paper 'Agnosticism About Artificial Consciousness'. Some say that AI could become conscious. Others say it couldn't. I say we don't know then deal with the moral mess this leaves us in! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13145 Abstract below
Pot with branch from dead plant in a windows sill. Next to it is another plant and a watering pot. Bellow, a sign is stuck on the wall reading - Artist: unknown. Dead plant, 2024. Glass, plastic, wood and misc. organic material. The precise placement of this piece among a collection of living plants allows the unknowns artist to remind the viewer of the inescapable cycle of life and death, as well as the capricious nature of the Ava rage house plant.
A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨
Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌
My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
A lovely review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s latest book, “Living on Earth: Life,
Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World,” by Alan C. Love in Springer Nature.
https://buff.ly/4fWqFbH
#PhilSci
Mona-Marie Wandrey & me on the need to take a precautionary approach towards patients in a so-called "vegetative state" (and the term is part of the problem!). theconversation.com/its-hard-to-...
Welcome new followers!!
We're a podcast about minds—human, animal, artificial. We explore the diversity of thinking/sensing/learning from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Recent topics: the "wood wide web," machine culture, genetics of IQ, electroreception, and more!
disi.org/manyminds/
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 PAMBA Prize essay contest in the philosophy of animal minds for early-career researchers. The winning paper will be published in Biology & Philosophy and presented as a keynote at the meeting in Santa Barbara. For details: www.the-pamba.com/prize
The Hare et al. (2000) design. Two chimpanzees are allowed to pursue food items in a shared enclosure. Food items are either out in the open from the perspective of the dominant, or behind an opaque occluder from the perspective of the dominant. If the subordinate attempts to take food items that are behind opaque occluders more often than those that are out in the open, the experimenters argue this would provide evidence that they understand what the dominant can and cannot see.
Looking forward to reading @cameronbuckner.bsky.social's SEP article about whether subordinate chimpanzees or dominant chimpanzees have better eye-lasers
plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...
A tiny snowy plover, seemingly all head and dark eye, runs through the sand toward the camera adorned with green and red bird bands on its legs.
how this bird real?
First feeds are up! Find them on this profile.
I’m indexing all posts containing a DOI, and all profiles containing an ORCID.
#atproto #bluesky #doi #orcid
Amazing news! Congrats!!!
Unfortunately not this one, but we’re thinking of organising a second one and will keep this in mind!
Excited to be co-organizing this workshop with Mariel Goddu (Stanford) and colleagues at the MPI EVA!
Join us in Leipzig, Dec 17-18th -> Free registration: bit.ly/intuitive-ph...
#intuitivephysics #cognition #development #comparativepsychology #Leipzig
I'm chairing this wonderful panel at the Department of HPS in Cambridge on the 9th of December, open to all (though there is a maximum room capacity of 60 people...). Should make for a very fun discussion on science and art!
"These conversations are the focus of fierce debate, not because scientists lack authority, but because these are the intellectual battles worth fighting"
Today's guest is one of our favourite HPS scholars @emilam.bsky.social talking about how colloquial science matters
#hps #histSTM #philsci 🧪
Exciting! I'll be in Santa Barbara for the 2nd PAMBA meeting. How about you? @ldanon.bsky.social @richardmoore.bsky.social @susanamonso.com @wileyprof.bsky.social @lgruen.bsky.social
Animals—from bees to butterflies, porcupines to primates—medicate themselves. They seek out bitter plants, they treat wounds, they amputate limbs, they eat clay. How do they know what they know?
Our latest episode—a chat with @jaapderoode.bsky.social & M. Huffman!
Listen: disi.org/animal-heal-...
My recent book, 'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Find out more at evolutionevolving.org
I’d like to be added please! Thanks for putting this together
