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@neuroyogacara.bsky.social
This is my academic feed for posting Buddhist philosophy, theoretical neurobiology, and aesthetics.
Horror and metal posting at https://bsky.app/profile/neuronaraka.bsky.social
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love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
![A quote from the article: “Rachel [Silverbloom] has capitalized on her love for film to start a Philosophy Film Club and is about to take her students on a field trip to our nearest independent cinema.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjxnsexrklmagnrjxkusdlxu/bafkreiaozd3yasnghp2jdzxelppx3qjspjdsny3sdqvk6bujbhgbox46vq@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
I accidentally closed a browser window that had 40 open tabs instead of the one window that I had separated out. All those tabs are lost, like tears in the rain…time to die…
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I accidentally closed a browser window that had 40 open tabs instead of the one window that I had separated out. All those tabs are lost, like tears in the rain…time to die…
I’m so stoked to see @billorcutt.bsky.social, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller tonight!
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’m so stoked to see @billorcutt.bsky.social, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller tonight!
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A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
![1/13 Daniel Dennett, Three kinds of Intentional Psychology
1/15 Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, More things in heaven and earth
1/20 Amanda Corris, Defining the Environment in Organism–Environment Systems
1/22 Anna Corwin & Cordelia Erickson-Davis, Experiencing presence An interactive model of perception
1/27 Hazel Rose Markus & Shinobu Kitayama, Cultures and Selves: A Cycle of Mutual Constitution
1/29 Qi Wang et al, Culture, Memory, and Narrative Self-Making
2/3 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering
2/5 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering
2/10 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering
2/12 Nicky Clatyton et al., Can animals recall the past and plan for the future?
2/19 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds
2/24 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds
2/26 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds
3/10 G. A. Bradshaw & Allan N. Schore, How Elephants are Opening Doors:Developmental Neuroethology
3/12 [Redacted]
3/17 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness
3/19 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness
3/24 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness
3/26 Anil Seth & Manos Tsakiris, Being a beast machine
3/31 Jennifer Windt, Predictive brains, dreaming selves, sleeping bodies
4/7 Carolina Arruda & Danny Povenelli, Chimpanzees as secret agents
4/9 Elizabeth Pacherie, The Sense of Control and the Sense of Agency
4/14 Chandra Sripada, The atoms of self control
4/16 Asynchronous Activity
4/21 Nick Brancazio, Gender and the senses of agency
4/23 Rebecca Todd & Evan Thompson, The Third Entity
4/28 Hanne De Jaegher, Loving and Knowing](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4pdvvuhwkkt7tmhcz2ycl3gw/bafkreibf4jezi5ffiwa6vhi7yi25s3p732vj3on7ffldadu36z4fzbc3f4@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
Listening to Max Roach, wearing a Sun Ra shirt, and heading to campus to try to convince my students that Adorno was right about jazz…life is weird
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Listening to Max Roach, wearing a Sun Ra shirt, and heading to campus to try to convince my students that Adorno was right about jazz…life is weird
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I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
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What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
I am a fan of jazz, and I know that the history of jazz is a history of radical resistance and worldbuilding. But I'm convinced that Adorno was onto something important, and that his work on jazz isn't best understood as (potentially racist) ramblings from a person who didn't really understand jazz
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I am a fan of jazz, and I know that the history of jazz is a history of radical resistance and worldbuilding. But I'm convinced that Adorno was onto something important, and that his work on jazz isn't best understood as (potentially racist) ramblings from a person who didn't really understand jazz
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
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I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
Hey aesthetics friends, what is your favorite recent stuff on the philosophy of music? I'm rebooting a class that was taught at GU for a long time, and I want to bring in a bunch of cool new stuff!
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
Hey aesthetics friends, what is your favorite recent stuff on the philosophy of music? I'm rebooting a class that was taught at GU for a long time, and I want to bring in a bunch of cool new stuff!
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
I threw a wrench in the machine because it is haloween…so tomorrow in Aesthetics, we will discuss The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
Das Kabinette - The Cabinet
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I threw a wrench in the machine because it is haloween…so tomorrow in Aesthetics, we will discuss The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
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As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art...
www.routledge.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
I’m teaching Benjamin this week in aesthetics. It’s wild that “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” was published in 1935, but that it captures so many features of the contemporary landscape…I’m really wondering how it will hit for the students…
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’m teaching Benjamin this week in aesthetics. It’s wild that “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” was published in 1935, but that it captures so many features of the contemporary landscape…I’m really wondering how it will hit for the students…
It's normal to drink massive quantities of coffee as a way of reducing your experience of stress and anxiety, right?
October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's normal to drink massive quantities of coffee as a way of reducing your experience of stress and anxiety, right?
We finished Sthiramati’s commentary on Vasubandhu’s Madhyāntavibhāgakārikā today in my Buddhist philosophy group. At points I felt like I was gaining a deep understanding of Yogācāra, and it was such an interesting perspective to work through! But sometimes it really ended up deep in the weeds…
October 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We finished Sthiramati’s commentary on Vasubandhu’s Madhyāntavibhāgakārikā today in my Buddhist philosophy group. At points I felt like I was gaining a deep understanding of Yogācāra, and it was such an interesting perspective to work through! But sometimes it really ended up deep in the weeds…
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My book that makes this argument, The Sonic Episteme, is 25% of right now in the Duke fall sale, get it here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-sonic-ep...
The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics
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October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My book that makes this argument, The Sonic Episteme, is 25% of right now in the Duke fall sale, get it here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-sonic-ep...
@emmiemalone.bsky.social and @seantmurphyy.bsky.social gave killer papers on hardcore and emo thus morning. I feel lucky that I got to be on a panel with them. And it’s cool to remember that people are doing kickass work on things that I will be thinking about for a long time
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
@emmiemalone.bsky.social and @seantmurphyy.bsky.social gave killer papers on hardcore and emo thus morning. I feel lucky that I got to be on a panel with them. And it’s cool to remember that people are doing kickass work on things that I will be thinking about for a long time
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The deadline for submitting an application to this job is this weekend! Please HMU if you have any questions about DC (right now or generally), Georgetown, or anything else else I might know something about
I'll be sharing this a few times over the next few weeks, but here's your first heads up that the Georgetown philosophy department is hiring philjobs.org/job/show/29710
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
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Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
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October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The deadline for submitting an application to this job is this weekend! Please HMU if you have any questions about DC (right now or generally), Georgetown, or anything else else I might know something about
The deadline for submitting an application to this job is this weekend! Please HMU if you have any questions about DC (right now or generally), Georgetown, or anything else else I might know something about
I'll be sharing this a few times over the next few weeks, but here's your first heads up that the Georgetown philosophy department is hiring philjobs.org/job/show/29710
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The deadline for submitting an application to this job is this weekend! Please HMU if you have any questions about DC (right now or generally), Georgetown, or anything else else I might know something about
B: Oh, that conference is in Baltimore, so I can just take the train up in the morning before my talk
<notices that the talk is at 9:00, doesn't think about it>
B: Huh...that means I have to catch the 7 am train, which means leaving the house by 6:30...maybe this wasn't the best idea I've ever had
<notices that the talk is at 9:00, doesn't think about it>
B: Huh...that means I have to catch the 7 am train, which means leaving the house by 6:30...maybe this wasn't the best idea I've ever had
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
B: Oh, that conference is in Baltimore, so I can just take the train up in the morning before my talk
<notices that the talk is at 9:00, doesn't think about it>
B: Huh...that means I have to catch the 7 am train, which means leaving the house by 6:30...maybe this wasn't the best idea I've ever had
<notices that the talk is at 9:00, doesn't think about it>
B: Huh...that means I have to catch the 7 am train, which means leaving the house by 6:30...maybe this wasn't the best idea I've ever had
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/