Peter Schulte
@peterschulte.bsky.social
Associate professor of philosophy at Umeå University; philosophy of mind & cognitive science, metaphysics; author of Mental Content (Cambridge UP)
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I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.
PLM Workshop Traces and Engrams: Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives
www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.
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We are pleased to announce that our next workshop on explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience (examining pluralism, integration, and elimination as competing alternatives) will take place on 25th to 27th February at TU Berlin. You're most welcome to join us there 😀
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We are pleased to announce that our next workshop on explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience (examining pluralism, integration, and elimination as competing alternatives) will take place on 25th to 27th February at TU Berlin. You're most welcome to join us there 😀
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There is a youtube recording of Dretske's lecture on seeing objects!!! Here's his brick wall example: youtu.be/yLr-HsxT4zI?...
What We See with Fred Dretske
YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)
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October 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
There is a youtube recording of Dretske's lecture on seeing objects!!! Here's his brick wall example: youtu.be/yLr-HsxT4zI?...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience
Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!
www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience
Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!
www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind
This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind.
The ris...
www.routledge.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience
Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!
www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience
Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!
www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
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Our open access chapter “Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences” (with María Ferreira Ruiz, Marie I. Kaiser & @javiersuarez.bsky.social) is now published in Inductive Metaphysics (Routledge, 2025). Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences | 21 | Extrinsical
Potentialities are properties that can manifest. Many potentialities are instantiated in virtue of having causal bases that are possible causes for their
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003514404-21/causal-bases-potentialities-life-sciences-fabian-hundertmark-maría-ferreira-ruiz-marie-kaiser-javier-suárez?context=ubx&refId=575b46a7-46ca-438a-8512-f5ca1f71b93d
September 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Our open access chapter “Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences” (with María Ferreira Ruiz, Marie I. Kaiser & @javiersuarez.bsky.social) is now published in Inductive Metaphysics (Routledge, 2025). Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese
Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Finally reading @peterschulte.bsky.social Mental Content in my summer project to work through some Cambridge Elements. It is extremely well written: straightforward but nonetheless teaching important distinctions and arguments without unnecessary complexity.
August 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Finally reading @peterschulte.bsky.social Mental Content in my summer project to work through some Cambridge Elements. It is extremely well written: straightforward but nonetheless teaching important distinctions and arguments without unnecessary complexity.
New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese
Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU
Karl Gustav Bergman, Teleosemantics and universal hybridity - PhilPapers
According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...
philpapers.org
July 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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New paper alert!
My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View - Journal for General Philosophy of Science
This paper argues that the so-called scaling-up problem (representation-hunger problem) can be resolved within the mechanistic framework of explanation. Emphasising the problem’s character as an empir...
doi.org
March 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New paper alert!
My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
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The 253 most-cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (1) Rawls, A Theory of Justice; (2) Kripke, Naming and Necessity; (3) Parfit, Reasons and Persons; (4) Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; (5) Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 253 most-cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (1) Rawls, A Theory of Justice; (2) Kripke, Naming and Necessity; (3) Parfit, Reasons and Persons; (4) Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; (5) Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
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The updated version of the IIT-Concerned letter has now been published in NN, thanks to the herculean efforts of the corresponding authors (thank you!!!). Here's the link. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)
Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)
What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience
Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The updated version of the IIT-Concerned letter has now been published in NN, thanks to the herculean efforts of the corresponding authors (thank you!!!). Here's the link. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)
Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)
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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions.
philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF
philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF
Marc Artiga, Peter Schulte & Nir Fresco, Some Proper Functions are Distal - PhilPapers
philpapers.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions.
philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF
philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF
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🚀 NeuroExp 2025 goes live! 🧠🎥
Due to high demand, we’re streaming keynote lectures LIVE (Feb 19-21, #TUBerlin)!
📡 Livestream 🔗 link available on our website on the morning of the conference: www.merex-project.org/neuroexp2025
#CognitiveNeuroscience #philsky #philsci #cogsci
Due to high demand, we’re streaming keynote lectures LIVE (Feb 19-21, #TUBerlin)!
📡 Livestream 🔗 link available on our website on the morning of the conference: www.merex-project.org/neuroexp2025
#CognitiveNeuroscience #philsky #philsci #cogsci
NeuroExp2025 | Merex
www.merex-project.org
February 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🚀 NeuroExp 2025 goes live! 🧠🎥
Due to high demand, we’re streaming keynote lectures LIVE (Feb 19-21, #TUBerlin)!
📡 Livestream 🔗 link available on our website on the morning of the conference: www.merex-project.org/neuroexp2025
#CognitiveNeuroscience #philsky #philsci #cogsci
Due to high demand, we’re streaming keynote lectures LIVE (Feb 19-21, #TUBerlin)!
📡 Livestream 🔗 link available on our website on the morning of the conference: www.merex-project.org/neuroexp2025
#CognitiveNeuroscience #philsky #philsci #cogsci
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OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
February 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
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A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university
We Can Make an Impact.
SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY
chng.it
February 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university
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Free download for two weeks
Explanation in Biology
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Explanation in Biology
www.cambridge.org
January 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Free download for two weeks
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Thrilled to share a new preprint on Neurophenomenal Structuralism (NPS) by @adriendoerig.bsky.social & myself! We show why neural structures alone aren’t enough to capture conscious contents. We must consider computational context! (arxiv.org/abs/2412.20873). A Thread (1/15):
Neurophenomenal Structuralism and the Role of Computational Context
Neurophenomenal structuralism posits that conscious experiences are defined relationally and that their phenomenal structures are mirrored by neural structures. While this approach offers a promising ...
arxiv.org
January 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thrilled to share a new preprint on Neurophenomenal Structuralism (NPS) by @adriendoerig.bsky.social & myself! We show why neural structures alone aren’t enough to capture conscious contents. We must consider computational context! (arxiv.org/abs/2412.20873). A Thread (1/15):