Eros Carvalho
@filosofemas.bsky.social
Prof. at UFRGS/CNPq | Interested in philosophy of cognitive sciences, ecological psychology, enactivism, know-how, perception and epistemology. EN/PT. https://philpeople.org/profiles/eros-moreira-de-carvalho
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Eros Carvalho
@filosofemas.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Ecological perspectivism: understanding perspectival realism through ecological psychology - Synthese
Synthese - Perspectival realism claims that scientific knowledge is always situated into a vantage point. We argue that ecological psychology offers a suitable framework to develop perspectival...
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Here the link to the published paper (Open Access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...?
Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...?
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Perspectival Realism + Ecological Psychology = Ecological Perspectivism
"Science offers knowledge of reality in terms of affordances, which are relational to the instruments and abilities of scientific communities."
#PhilSci #PsycSci
"Science offers knowledge of reality in terms of affordances, which are relational to the instruments and abilities of scientific communities."
#PhilSci #PsycSci
We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.
Ecological Perspectivism: Understanding Perspectival Realism through Ecological Psychology - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
August 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.
Ecological Perspectivism: Understanding Perspectival Realism through Ecological Psychology - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
August 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.
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'The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism' (Kirchhoff, Kiverstein & Robertson) has finally made its way into the ahead of print stage with The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Ahead of print
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
'The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism' (Kirchhoff, Kiverstein & Robertson) has finally made its way into the ahead of print stage with The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0
NDPR review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-... "If the principal entanglement at the heart of this book is that between art and philosophy, its main insight—and one, appropriately enough, that engagements with both art and philosophy bring into view—is that pretty much everything is tangled up."
The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us Who We Are
One of the features of philosophical discourse that distinguishes it from most other branches of scientific and humanistic enquiry is the lack of widesp...
ndpr.nd.edu
August 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
NDPR review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-... "If the principal entanglement at the heart of this book is that between art and philosophy, its main insight—and one, appropriately enough, that engagements with both art and philosophy bring into view—is that pretty much everything is tangled up."
The principles of charity and good faith are prima facie applicable, yet they should not prevent us from recognizing that there are foolish or malicious individuals in this world.
July 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The principles of charity and good faith are prima facie applicable, yet they should not prevent us from recognizing that there are foolish or malicious individuals in this world.
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Study finds #AI tools made open source software developers slower. But then AI was never about saving time, but doing a highly skilled job with unskilled labour. #AIHype apple.news/AlEakH6o2Rr2...
Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.
apple.news
July 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Study finds #AI tools made open source software developers slower. But then AI was never about saving time, but doing a highly skilled job with unskilled labour. #AIHype apple.news/AlEakH6o2Rr2...
This has to stop: "According to one recent study, in 2020 alone, academics globally spent more than 100 million hours peer reviewing papers for journals. For experts in the US, the time spent reviewing that year amounted to more than $1.5bn of free labour." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This has to stop: "According to one recent study, in 2020 alone, academics globally spent more than 100 million hours peer reviewing papers for journals. For experts in the US, the time spent reviewing that year amounted to more than $1.5bn of free labour." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Sempre bom lembrar e pontuar a falta de limites para a hipocrisia dos extremistas da direita na sua "defesa" da liberdade de expressão.
PERSEGUIÇÃO POLÍTICA | Em 2019, reportamos como universidades brasileiras se tornaram campo de ataques e ameaças contra professores identificados como ‘’de esquerda’, durante o governo de Jair Bolsonaro. A violência no ambiente acadêmico fez professores buscarem ajuda em rede internacional.
Professores universitários ameaçados procuram ajuda para fugir do país
Pesquisadora de organização Scholars at Risk afirma que tem sido procurada por professores ameaçados que querem deixar o país temendo pela própria vida.
dlvr.it
July 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sempre bom lembrar e pontuar a falta de limites para a hipocrisia dos extremistas da direita na sua "defesa" da liberdade de expressão.
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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Yup!
"I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."
"I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."
I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad.
Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly
Wild piece:
Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly
Wild piece:
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Yup!
"I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."
"I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."
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"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
June 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
June 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Submissions invited for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics
Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900
Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished
Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies.
Deadline: October 10, 2025
www.duchateletprize.org
#HPS
Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900
Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished
Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies.
Deadline: October 10, 2025
www.duchateletprize.org
#HPS
May 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Submissions invited for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics
Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900
Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished
Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies.
Deadline: October 10, 2025
www.duchateletprize.org
#HPS
Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900
Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished
Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies.
Deadline: October 10, 2025
www.duchateletprize.org
#HPS
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The Entangled Brain by @pessoabrain.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...
How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
aeon.co
May 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The Entangled Brain by @pessoabrain.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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Remembering the smug AI hype man who in 2023 told me that factuality/confabulation would be a solved problem by summer 2024, tops. I told him that you can’t fix a problem that is also at the core of what the machine does well. He laughed at me, then got kinda quiet
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Remembering the smug AI hype man who in 2023 told me that factuality/confabulation would be a solved problem by summer 2024, tops. I told him that you can’t fix a problem that is also at the core of what the machine does well. He laughed at me, then got kinda quiet
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Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
March 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
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My paper (w/ Hrishikesh Joshi) on why listening is A Very Good Thing is now officially published. It argues, among other things, that critical and constructive listening is crucial to maintaining the epistemic commons. It's open access.
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
The duty to listen
In philosophical work on the ethics of conversational exchange, much has been written regarding the speaker side—i.e., on the rights and duties we have as speakers. This paper explores the relatively...
doi.org
March 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My paper (w/ Hrishikesh Joshi) on why listening is A Very Good Thing is now officially published. It argues, among other things, that critical and constructive listening is crucial to maintaining the epistemic commons. It's open access.
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
A desk rejection is sometimes inevitable, given the high number of submissions a prestigious journal receives. However, we from the Global South have every reason to suspect that bias might also be among the implicit reasons for such empty feedback.
March 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A desk rejection is sometimes inevitable, given the high number of submissions a prestigious journal receives. However, we from the Global South have every reason to suspect that bias might also be among the implicit reasons for such empty feedback.
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the most powerful & wealthiest corporations whose business models relies on theft, rights infringements, environmental destruction, aggressive data collection & surveillance say that the regulatory guardrails developed to tame them are a “step in the wrong direction”
www.politico.eu/article/goog...
www.politico.eu/article/goog...
EU rules for advanced AI are step in wrong direction, Google says
Google and Meta are leading the charge against a “code of practice” governing tools like Gemini, ChatGPT and Llama.
www.politico.eu
March 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
the most powerful & wealthiest corporations whose business models relies on theft, rights infringements, environmental destruction, aggressive data collection & surveillance say that the regulatory guardrails developed to tame them are a “step in the wrong direction”
www.politico.eu/article/goog...
www.politico.eu/article/goog...
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ProPublica is one of the best independent tech journalism outlets out there doing an amazing job keeping big tech accountable. glad they're hiring more people... apply if you fit the bill
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
boards.greenhouse.io
March 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ProPublica is one of the best independent tech journalism outlets out there doing an amazing job keeping big tech accountable. glad they're hiring more people... apply if you fit the bill
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For those interested in books about smell, taste, and flavor I made a short (eclectic) list of recommendations
shepherd.com/best-books/s...
#philosophy #perception #Smell #Taste
shepherd.com/best-books/s...
#philosophy #perception #Smell #Taste
The best introductory books on smell and flavor
Benjamin Young shares the 5 best books on smell and flavor. Have you read What the Nose Knows?
shepherd.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
For those interested in books about smell, taste, and flavor I made a short (eclectic) list of recommendations
shepherd.com/best-books/s...
#philosophy #perception #Smell #Taste
shepherd.com/best-books/s...
#philosophy #perception #Smell #Taste
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#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...
Ad Astra Fellow in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology - UCD School of Philosophy
www.ucd.ie
February 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...
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𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
Wonderful short book by Lauren Ross on how to think about explanations in the biological sciences, including brains.
A lot of the focus is on causal explanations but also the need to go beyond them and how these other types of explanation connect to causation (or not).
Wonderful short book by Lauren Ross on how to think about explanations in the biological sciences, including brains.
A lot of the focus is on causal explanations but also the need to go beyond them and how these other types of explanation connect to causation (or not).
February 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
Wonderful short book by Lauren Ross on how to think about explanations in the biological sciences, including brains.
A lot of the focus is on causal explanations but also the need to go beyond them and how these other types of explanation connect to causation (or not).
Wonderful short book by Lauren Ross on how to think about explanations in the biological sciences, including brains.
A lot of the focus is on causal explanations but also the need to go beyond them and how these other types of explanation connect to causation (or not).