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David Barack
@dlbarack.bsky.social
Philosopher and neuroscientist | Studying reasoning and foraging | Conceptual and theoretical foundations of cognition | #T1D
Last talk of day two at #SPAN2025: Carl Craver on representation!
May 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
John Krakauer delivering a superb keynote to start #SPAN2025!
May 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hey #neuroskyence! Make sure you submit your abstracts for the first-ever #SPAN2025! Check the line-up below 👇
January 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Another manuscript is away!
April 3, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Also, PSA in!
March 15, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Just now catching up: another one down...
March 15, 2024 at 11:27 AM
So, I went back to the drawing board, drawing on a wide range of work on foraging. There seemed to me to be two general approaches: you can analyze foraging in terms of features of the environment or in terms of search and decision processes (or both). My analysis of foraging utilizes both. (3/6)
February 12, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I provide a conceptual analysis of foraging. Upon starting the project, I thought an analysis would be readily available in optimal foraging theory. But I noticed that there typically is not such an analysis provided, and relying on the optimal foraging formalisms themselves would be circular. (2/6)
February 12, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Happy to announce that my article, What is foraging?, is now out at Biology and Philosophy! Many thanks to all who discussed these issues with me over the years.    link.springer.com/article/10.1... (1/6)
February 12, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Haha. Well, it’s a good question. Acceptance rates are also absurd. For example, here’s a pie chart of paper submission outcomes in Philosophical Review—widely regarded as the best in the field. They accept so few papers, there’s literally no slice for accepted
September 1, 2023 at 10:09 PM