Sarah Robins
@sarahrobins.bsky.social
Philosopher at Purdue. Philosophy of Memory, Psychology, Neuroscience.
www.sarahkrobins.com
www.sarahkrobins.com
Bergson’s view of memory has largely been lost in recent philosophical discussion Doudja Boumaza is at the Palace today, with a strong case for bringing him back!
#philsky #philscisky
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If the brain doesn’t store memories, where are they? Why do we summon the past into the present? Henri Bergson explored these questions. Doudja Boumaza (Grenoble) is at The Memory Palace today encouraging us all to revisit Bergson’s answers. Enjoy!
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Why do we remember the past? Bergson's forgotten question
Doudja Boumaza (University of Grenoble Alpes)
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February 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Bergson’s view of memory has largely been lost in recent philosophical discussion Doudja Boumaza is at the Palace today, with a strong case for bringing him back!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Charlotte Harmon is a Purdue undergrad who has been working this year as an editorial assistant for The Memory Palace. Her interactions with the Palacio translation team inspired her to interview them on how language and translation impact the philosophy of memory. A great start to our 2026 season!
The Memory Palace is back for 2026! Our first post is from Charlotte Harmon, our Purdue student editorial assistant. The piece highlights the work of some of our translators and how language plays a role in the philosophy of memory. Check it out!
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Language in the Philosophy of Memory: An interview with the translators of "El Palacio de la Memoria"
Charlotte Harmon (Purdue University), Marcela Zarate Rochin (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Elena Ostos (Université Grenoble-Alps), and Lucienne Huby (University of Cagliari)
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February 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Charlotte Harmon is a Purdue undergrad who has been working this year as an editorial assistant for The Memory Palace. Her interactions with the Palacio translation team inspired her to interview them on how language and translation impact the philosophy of memory. A great start to our 2026 season!
CAIC’s been baking all year, and now we’re ready to celebrate! 🎂🎂🎂
Our first workshop is in April, with an absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 lineup. Stay tuned for more details and join us if you can!
Our first workshop is in April, with an absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 lineup. Stay tuned for more details and join us if you can!
CAIC has been hard at work creating an interdisciplinary hub for pursuing big questions in cognitive science. This spring we are excited to officially launch the Cognition, Agency, Intelligence Conference featuring talks by an amazing lineup of interdisciplinary researchers. See you on April 2-3! 🥳
January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
CAIC’s been baking all year, and now we’re ready to celebrate! 🎂🎂🎂
Our first workshop is in April, with an absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 lineup. Stay tuned for more details and join us if you can!
Our first workshop is in April, with an absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 lineup. Stay tuned for more details and join us if you can!
It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th
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December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th
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The mirror as a site for learning and memory. Antonella Tramacere (Roma Tre University) is at The Memory Palace today, adding layers of nuance to how we think about what's reflected when we look in the mirror.
A wonderfully rich way to wrap up our 2025 posts. See you in 2026!
#philsky #philscisky
A wonderfully rich way to wrap up our 2025 posts. See you in 2026!
#philsky #philscisky
When we look at ourselves in the mirror, what do we think of? Today at The Memory Palace, Antonella Tramacere examines what is entailed by mirror gazing and what kind of memory affects one's mirror perception.
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Mirrors and memory: The stories embodied in your mirror image
Antonella Tramacere (Roma Tre University)
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The mirror as a site for learning and memory. Antonella Tramacere (Roma Tre University) is at The Memory Palace today, adding layers of nuance to how we think about what's reflected when we look in the mirror.
A wonderfully rich way to wrap up our 2025 posts. See you in 2026!
#philsky #philscisky
A wonderfully rich way to wrap up our 2025 posts. See you in 2026!
#philsky #philscisky
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🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
10 more days to submit extended abstracts for IPM5
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Avoid FOMO; join PhOMO!
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Avoid FOMO; join PhOMO!
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December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
10 more days to submit extended abstracts for IPM5
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Avoid FOMO; join PhOMO!
#philsky #philscisky
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Avoid FOMO; join PhOMO!
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When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
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This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag @eduede.bsky.social and Daniel Friedman will present their paper "How (Not) to Attribute LLM Mental States" 🤖🧠
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag @eduede.bsky.social and Daniel Friedman will present their paper "How (Not) to Attribute LLM Mental States" 🤖🧠
Kathy Puddifoot (Durham) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing Mnemonic Injustice and the ways that the structure and use of our memory systems can wrong others around us. A provocative read; highly recommend!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Can our memories ever be unfair or unjust? Today at The Memory Palace, Kathy Puddfoot explores the concept of "mnemonic injustice" and how our memories can serve a role in treating people with justice.
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Wronged by Memory
Katherine Puddifoot (Durham University)
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December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Kathy Puddifoot (Durham) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing Mnemonic Injustice and the ways that the structure and use of our memory systems can wrong others around us. A provocative read; highly recommend!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
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🚨 Call for Papers!
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9
#philsky
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9
#philsky
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🚨 Call for Papers!
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9
#philsky
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026
Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9
#philsky
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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026
Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!
Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026
Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!
Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026
Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!
Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026
Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!
Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!
Juan Diego Bogotá (Jyväskylä) is at The Palace today, asking how groups share knowledge of their collective past and whether it warrants the title "collective memory." Juan has translated his thought-provoking post, so it's available simultaneously on the Palacio. Enjoy!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
When a person views an object used as a token of a historical event, what kind of memory is being activated? Today at The Memory Palace, Juan Diego Bogota touches on kinds of collective memory from events and material culture in English and Spanish!
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¿Qué es mnemónico acerca de la memoria colectiva?
Juan Diego Bogota (Universidad de Jyväskylä), Traducción del autor
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November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Juan Diego Bogotá (Jyväskylä) is at The Palace today, asking how groups share knowledge of their collective past and whether it warrants the title "collective memory." Juan has translated his thought-provoking post, so it's available simultaneously on the Palacio. Enjoy!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Reposted by Sarah Robins
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Sarah Robins
New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science
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After science
Twenty-five years ago, Ted Chiang wrote a prescient science fiction short that began: “It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, makin...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
When we are recollecting a story, what discerns all are other memories from being forgotten or merely being inaccessible at that moment? Today at The Memory Palace, Jessie Munton discusses what constitutes forgetting and its many uses in our lives.
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Is forgetting discovered or created?
Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
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Discover how greater gender parity and the growth of female leadership across Latin America created the conditions for a successful social movement, in this illuminating case study from Somebody Should Do Something
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Voices of change: Leadership’s role in the rise of social movements
Many sparks fail to start fires where conditions seem right, while others flare up into fires where nobody would have expected. Few movements in recent history provide as good an example of this as t…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Discover how greater gender parity and the growth of female leadership across Latin America created the conditions for a successful social movement, in this illuminating case study from Somebody Should Do Something
www.amba-bga.com/insights/voi...
www.amba-bga.com/insights/voi...
Next week in San Diego!
Come check out the #MCCS25 debate on November 14!
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Next week in San Diego!
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🔥 New Publication: @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social has a book chapter titled "Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence" forthcoming in 'Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations'
Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE
Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🔥 New Publication: @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social has a book chapter titled "Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence" forthcoming in 'Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations'
Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE
Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund) is at The Memory Palace today, talking about the special case of memories for patterns of personal experience. These generic memories play a significant role in our lives, and so should play a larger role in our study of memory, too. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
How do we recall the memory of events that may happen repeatedly, such as our own birthday? Today at The Memory Palace, Katja Crone analyzes different types of memory, including what she terms "generic" memory, when it comes to frequent events.
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How We Recall Recurring Events
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund)
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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund) is at The Memory Palace today, talking about the special case of memories for patterns of personal experience. These generic memories play a significant role in our lives, and so should play a larger role in our study of memory, too. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
The Memory Palace takes a big step forward with our translation project today. Check out our El Palacio de la Memoria section, featuring the efforts of the MemoriEs project - and come back regularly (or subscribe) to see more that we’ve got lined up to debut in the weeks ahead!
#philscisky #philsky
#philscisky #philsky
Do you know that the Memory Palace publishes research not only in English but also in Spanish? Check out this post from Sarah Robins to know more about this initiative!
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Fiesta en al Palacio
Sarah Robins (Purdue University)
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Memory Palace takes a big step forward with our translation project today. Check out our El Palacio de la Memoria section, featuring the efforts of the MemoriEs project - and come back regularly (or subscribe) to see more that we’ve got lined up to debut in the weeks ahead!
#philscisky #philsky
#philscisky #philsky
Squinting at this image? You’re trying to identify objects in the blur, much as psychologists do when they approach research objects. Uljana Feest develops this view of psychology in her recent book, and she's talking about how it shapes implicit memory at The Memory Palace today. Enjoy!
#philscisky
#philscisky
What does it mean that memory is epistemically blurry? Today at the Memory Palace, Uljana Feest discusses this important question and gives us a preview of her book "Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration".
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Memory as an Epistemically Blurry Object of Research
Uljana Feest (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Squinting at this image? You’re trying to identify objects in the blur, much as psychologists do when they approach research objects. Uljana Feest develops this view of psychology in her recent book, and she's talking about how it shapes implicit memory at The Memory Palace today. Enjoy!
#philscisky
#philscisky
Reposted by Sarah Robins
This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠
“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
How does explicit memory, like episodic memory, shape implicit attitudes? Today at the Memory Palace, Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) discusses this and other questions, with particular attention to implicit biases and their harmful consequences.
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How Memory Shapes Implicit Attitudes
Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona)
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky