Gavin Foster🦧
@gibbonitathought.bsky.social
- Purdue PhD student / Affiliate at Social and Cognitive Origins Group
- Animal cognition -- ToM
- Norm psych.
- Kant
Prev: UofT/IHPST, Carleton
- Animal cognition -- ToM
- Norm psych.
- Kant
Prev: UofT/IHPST, Carleton
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Really excited to share my first ever published paper, forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology: "From Monkeys to Infants: The Empirical Challenges Facing Mental Fictionalism"
It's open-access, which I'm really happy about.
Brief 🧵 on what it's all about!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's open-access, which I'm really happy about.
Brief 🧵 on what it's all about!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This Friday, Eric Margolis will be giving a talk titled 'Why the Approximate Number System Supports Concept Nativism—Even If There Are No Innate Concepts' the CAIC Brown Bag Series.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This Friday, Eric Margolis will be giving a talk titled 'Why the Approximate Number System Supports Concept Nativism—Even If There Are No Innate Concepts' the CAIC Brown Bag Series.
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1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Just won my court case against my previous landlord in full after a lot of time and work. What a great way to start the week.
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just won my court case against my previous landlord in full after a lot of time and work. What a great way to start the week.
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
Tip: a lease doesn't start if the property you're renting out is flooded and has mold everywhere!
🥳
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🥳 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥
🚨New Paper!🚨
Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't!
We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't!
We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
🥳 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
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Massive congratulations to my friend and @jhu.edu colleague, @chazfirestone.bsky.social!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
January 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Massive congratulations to my friend and @jhu.edu colleague, @chazfirestone.bsky.social!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!
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tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
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This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:
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Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday
Telling myself over and over again that it doesn't matter cause we still have hockey...
November 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Telling myself over and over again that it doesn't matter cause we still have hockey...
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Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) invites submissions for its next annual meeting, to be held in Halifax June 4-6, 2026. Submission Deadline: Saturday January 10, 2026 #HPS
cshps.ca
cshps.ca
Home - CSHPS/SCHPS
Announcing the 9th Notes and Records Essay Award
cshps.ca
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!
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The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
I've caught a bug and it's destroyed my sinuses. How does anyone write philosophy with clogged sinuses? I presume it's impossible. Wittgenstein might have written during WW1, but this is way worse I promise.
October 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I've caught a bug and it's destroyed my sinuses. How does anyone write philosophy with clogged sinuses? I presume it's impossible. Wittgenstein might have written during WW1, but this is way worse I promise.
Are there any photos of Davidson when he's younger? Could never find one.
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Are there any photos of Davidson when he's younger? Could never find one.
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Oh, and for those who enjoy spitting their coffee out at memes, we have an absolute winner from @okaydaniellle.bsky.social 10/10, Danielle!
October 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Oh, and for those who enjoy spitting their coffee out at memes, we have an absolute winner from @okaydaniellle.bsky.social 10/10, Danielle!
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Kant on Righteous Spinoza, and some Adam Smith
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Kant on Righteous Spinoza, and some Adam Smith
Last Friday I attended a fascinating paper by Shterna S.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Kant on Righteous Spinoza, and some Adam Smith
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
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This Saturday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk during @ispsm.bsky.social's annual conference. The talk is part of a symposium on realism in neuroscience. Check out the ISPSM profile for a link to watch online 🧠
October 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This Saturday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk during @ispsm.bsky.social's annual conference. The talk is part of a symposium on realism in neuroscience. Check out the ISPSM profile for a link to watch online 🧠
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@evanwestra.bsky.social is heading to Princeton to discuss a paper titled 'Desire without Metarepresentation' at the Perspectives on Perspectives Workshop 🥳
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@evanwestra.bsky.social is heading to Princeton to discuss a paper titled 'Desire without Metarepresentation' at the Perspectives on Perspectives Workshop 🥳
I want to be the Tom Bombadil of philosophy.
October 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I want to be the Tom Bombadil of philosophy.
From Anthropic, Alan Turing Institute, et al.
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples share.google/spvtuhkQo0hq...
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples share.google/spvtuhkQo0hq...
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversar...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
From Anthropic, Alan Turing Institute, et al.
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples share.google/spvtuhkQo0hq...
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples share.google/spvtuhkQo0hq...
