Susanna Schellenberg
@sschellenberg.bsky.social
Distinguished Prof of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guggenheim Fellow, Author of The Unity of Perception (OUP 2018), http://tinyurl.com/2p8ttuux
perception, cognition, reflexivity in biological and AI systems.🤖🧠👩🔬🧪
http://susannaschellenberg.org
perception, cognition, reflexivity in biological and AI systems.🤖🧠👩🔬🧪
http://susannaschellenberg.org
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V—The Flexibility and Stability of Perspectives
Abstract. This paper develops an account of perspectives that explains both perspectival stability and flexibility informed by research in neuroscience, co
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Here is another element of the theory behind severence. It’s a core chapter of the book I’m currently writing on the nature of perspectives. I started working on this paper in 2018, but put it on hold several times to complete other projects.
Free to download at the link below for a short period.
Free to download at the link below for a short period.
Reposted by Susanna Schellenberg
Next up on Consciousness Live! -Susanna Schellenberg later today at 2 pm!
youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg
YouTube video by onemorebrown
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October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Next up on Consciousness Live! -Susanna Schellenberg later today at 2 pm!
youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
About to do a live podcast. Wish me luck. youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg
YouTube video by onemorebrown
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October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
About to do a live podcast. Wish me luck. youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
Congratulations to Jordan Scott for defending what was allegedly just one dissertation, but in fact was two: one in the philosophy of race, and one in epistemology. He is now off to Oxford for a three-year postdoc, and will be much missed here at Rutgers.
September 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Congratulations to Jordan Scott for defending what was allegedly just one dissertation, but in fact was two: one in the philosophy of race, and one in epistemology. He is now off to Oxford for a three-year postdoc, and will be much missed here at Rutgers.
From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.
August 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.
CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...
Capacities-first Philosophy
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: CAPACITIES-FIRST PHILOSOPHY. This special issue aims to analyze various ...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...
Congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta for winning the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”.
June 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta for winning the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”.
It’s like watching a couple who waited too long to get divorced.
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It’s like watching a couple who waited too long to get divorced.
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It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature
A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...
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May 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(via Bernard Kobes)
May 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
(via Bernard Kobes)
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oh wow wow wow. Wow.
It's officially out, after many years:
"Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...
Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.
It's officially out, after many years:
"Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...
Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.
April 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
oh wow wow wow. Wow.
It's officially out, after many years:
"Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...
Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.
It's officially out, after many years:
"Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...
Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.
Reposted by Susanna Schellenberg
Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.
The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.
Relational Moral Demands
Abstract. Relational moral theories hold that at least some moral demands are grounded in a relation between individuals. But how should this relation be u
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April 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.
The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.
Reposted by Susanna Schellenberg
My Neural Mechanisms Online talk 'Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits' takes place on Monday April 28th - 7am for me, more civilized hours for most of the rest of you! Responses from Gualtiero Piccinini and Edouard Machery.
www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...
www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...
April 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My Neural Mechanisms Online talk 'Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits' takes place on Monday April 28th - 7am for me, more civilized hours for most of the rest of you! Responses from Gualtiero Piccinini and Edouard Machery.
www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...
www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...
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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.
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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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The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor - Nature
A standard commercial CMOS FET can exhibit synaptic-like long-term potentiation and depression or neuron-like leaky-integrate-and-fire and adaptive frequency-bursting behaviour when biased in a specif...
www.nature.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Susanna Schellenberg
𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Apr 11 at noon EST USA time.
Here's the paper to get the discussion going:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Everyone welcome but register ->
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Apr 11 at noon EST USA time.
Here's the paper to get the discussion going:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Everyone welcome but register ->
Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience
The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c....
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April 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Apr 11 at noon EST USA time.
Here's the paper to get the discussion going:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Everyone welcome but register ->
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Apr 11 at noon EST USA time.
Here's the paper to get the discussion going:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Everyone welcome but register ->
Reposted by Susanna Schellenberg
Eva Dyer and I wrote an opinion piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why neuroscience needs to embrace complexity and accept the "bitter lesson" by using a data-driven regime at scale.
With commentary from several wonderful researchers!
🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪
With commentary from several wonderful researchers!
🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪
How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series.
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Eva Dyer and I wrote an opinion piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why neuroscience needs to embrace complexity and accept the "bitter lesson" by using a data-driven regime at scale.
With commentary from several wonderful researchers!
🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪
With commentary from several wonderful researchers!
🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪
Reposted by Susanna Schellenberg
Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪
Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...
General info: encode.pillar.vc
#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs
Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...
General info: encode.pillar.vc
#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs
ARIA Opportunity Space: Scalable Neural Interfaces
encode.pillar.vc
March 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪
Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...
General info: encode.pillar.vc
#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs
Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...
General info: encode.pillar.vc
#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs
Here is another element of the theory behind severence. It’s a core chapter of the book I’m currently writing on the nature of perspectives. I started working on this paper in 2018, but put it on hold several times to complete other projects.
Free to download at the link below for a short period.
Free to download at the link below for a short period.
V—The Flexibility and Stability of Perspectives
Abstract. This paper develops an account of perspectives that explains both perspectival stability and flexibility informed by research in neuroscience, co
academic.oup.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Here is another element of the theory behind severence. It’s a core chapter of the book I’m currently writing on the nature of perspectives. I started working on this paper in 2018, but put it on hold several times to complete other projects.
Free to download at the link below for a short period.
Free to download at the link below for a short period.
Congratulations to my brilliant graduate student, Andrew Rubner, for landing a TT job at UNC (among several others). He is deferring his start date at UNC to Fall 2026 to complete another year of his Bersoff postdoc at NYU. It was a pleasure being his supervisor!
March 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations to my brilliant graduate student, Andrew Rubner, for landing a TT job at UNC (among several others). He is deferring his start date at UNC to Fall 2026 to complete another year of his Bersoff postdoc at NYU. It was a pleasure being his supervisor!
The administration seems to want academics to live in fear and poverty. They don't seem to be aware that living in poverty doesn't scare us. We all chose to get a PhD.
March 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The administration seems to want academics to live in fear and poverty. They don't seem to be aware that living in poverty doesn't scare us. We all chose to get a PhD.
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🚨 Last chance to apply for this position! Lots of opportunities for learning, developing new projects, and collaborating with a large multi-national & interdisciplinary team. We're funded by an international organization with funding guaranteed for the next 3 years. Thanks for reposting!
We're hiring a postdoc! Our lab is interested in understanding how visual perception and mental imagery relate to each other, both in the mind and the brain. We're looking for someone with fMRI experience to work on this topic. Please apply! subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu/research/arc...
The Subjectivity Lab
Interdisciplinary lab in Northeastern's Psychology Department researching visual perception, mental imagery, consciousness and metacognition.
subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu
February 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨 Last chance to apply for this position! Lots of opportunities for learning, developing new projects, and collaborating with a large multi-national & interdisciplinary team. We're funded by an international organization with funding guaranteed for the next 3 years. Thanks for reposting!
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Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)
March 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)
Two or more 2-year Postdoc / Research Scientist positions at NYU to work on issues tied to artificial consciousness. Strong research track record with expertise in AI expected. No teaching. Salary around $62K. Details and application materials are here philjobs.org/job/show/28878
Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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March 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two or more 2-year Postdoc / Research Scientist positions at NYU to work on issues tied to artificial consciousness. Strong research track record with expertise in AI expected. No teaching. Salary around $62K. Details and application materials are here philjobs.org/job/show/28878