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🧠 Cognition, Agency, & Intelligence Center 🤖
@ Purdue University 🚂

💭 If you've got a biq question, it's time for some CAIC 🍰

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highlights from today’s talk with Eamon Duede and Daniel Friedman 🔥
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
⚙️ New Publication ⚙️ @okaydaniellle.bsky.social's new paper 'Computationalism, implementation, and the literal interpretation of computational models in neuroscience: distinctions with a difference' is forthcoming in Philosophy and The Mind Sciences.

Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/DANCIA-3
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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 week on the Psychological Sciences Department:
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Tomorrow Mason Westfall (Johns Hopkins) will join the CAIC Brown Bag series for a mid-week talk titled "Are Sexual Orientations Really About Gender?"
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This week in the Psychological Sciences at Purdue:
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🤖 NEW PAPER 🤖 : @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's new paper 'AI empiricism: the only game in town?' is forthcoming in 'The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies' (Routledge).

Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🌊 NEW PUBLICATION 🌊 : @dryan149.bsky.social's new paper "Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching" is out now in Topoi!

Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Highlights from Eric Margolis's Brown Bag Talk!
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Today, in the Psychology Department, CAIC Co-Director, Sarah Robins gave a wonderful talk on memory during the Seminar for Neurotrauma and Disease!
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 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.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
📖 NEW PUBLICATION: The mind-brain is a computer, but what is (neural) computation? By @coreymaley.net & Oron Shagrir

Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠

Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
HOT DEBATE 🔥 On November 13th @sarahrobins.bsky.social will be moderating a debate at the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society's Annual Meeting. TOPIC: Are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? 🤔
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🔥 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
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag: Javier Gomez-Lavin will be presenting a paper titled 'Trust the Process: Why AI Ecology, Not Scaling Laws, Offers a Guide to Machine Intelligence.' 🤖
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This week, the Center for Paralysis Research will be hosting @sarahrobins.bsky.social on November 12 for their Fall 2025 Seminar for Neurotrauma and Diseases 🧠
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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
It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This week in Neuroscience at Purdue:
October 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🧠 Next week in the Department of Psychological Sciences:
October 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🚨 New publication out now in Philosophy of Science 🚨 In his new article, Eamon Deude argues that we can acquire a priori knowledge from LLMs and DNNs even though they are entirely opaque to us.

🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@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
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