Eleonore Neufeld
@eneufeld.bsky.social
Philosophy Prof at UMass Amherst
Only one week left to register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind" at @umassamherst.bsky.social!
Spread the word & register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind", combining perspectives from Phil & Psych, on April 26 at UMass Amherst! @umasspress.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/essenti...
March 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Only one week left to register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind" at @umassamherst.bsky.social!
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Hey folks- I’ll be doing the next one of these, if your grad students want to chat Philsci, game theory, evolutionary or agent based modeling, misinformation please share
After last week's PSA Office Hour was such a success, don't miss out on the next one! Sign up to meet with Cailin O'Connor (@cailinmeister.bsky.social) to chat about Philosophy of Science & Social Epistemology.
📅 Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
🕒 12:00 PM EST
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📅 Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
🕒 12:00 PM EST
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PSA Office Hour - Student Signup Form
Thank you for your interest in the PSA Office Hour. Please note that this is intended to be a research-focused discussion, not an informal chat or salon style interaction. Please complete all questions fully and accurately and we will be in touch with the results!
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February 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hey folks- I’ll be doing the next one of these, if your grad students want to chat Philsci, game theory, evolutionary or agent based modeling, misinformation please share
Spread the word & register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind", combining perspectives from Phil & Psych, on April 26 at UMass Amherst! @umasspress.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/essenti...
February 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Spread the word & register for our conference "Essentialism in the Human Mind", combining perspectives from Phil & Psych, on April 26 at UMass Amherst! @umasspress.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/essenti...
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In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of new work on the philosophy & cog sci of norms. If you want to get up to speed on it, check out this newly revised SEP entry on the Psychology of Normative Cognition by @dryan149.bsky.social, Stephen Setman & me.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...
The Psychology of Normative Cognition (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
February 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of new work on the philosophy & cog sci of norms. If you want to get up to speed on it, check out this newly revised SEP entry on the Psychology of Normative Cognition by @dryan149.bsky.social, Stephen Setman & me.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...
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A vaccine that prevents cancer: ‘Scientists say the HPV vaccine works so well that this type of cancer could be eradicated in the near future.’
Over 99% of cervical cancers are caused by this virus—so preventing the infection prevents the cancer. Amazing news!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Over 99% of cervical cancers are caused by this virus—so preventing the infection prevents the cancer. Amazing news!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A vaccine that prevents cancer: ‘Scientists say the HPV vaccine works so well that this type of cancer could be eradicated in the near future.’
Over 99% of cervical cancers are caused by this virus—so preventing the infection prevents the cancer. Amazing news!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Over 99% of cervical cancers are caused by this virus—so preventing the infection prevents the cancer. Amazing news!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead
www.statnews.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
Our paper "Giving Generic Language Another Thought" (authored by myself, Annie Bosse, Guillermo Del Pinal, and Rachel Sterken) is now officially out in WIREs Cognitive Science. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/3)
Giving Generic Language Another Thought
According to an influential research program in cognitive science, philosophy, and linguistics, there is a deep, special connection between generics and stereotyping. However, recent empirical and th...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our paper "Giving Generic Language Another Thought" (authored by myself, Annie Bosse, Guillermo Del Pinal, and Rachel Sterken) is now officially out in WIREs Cognitive Science. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/3)
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Just a reminder that the deadline to submit to @socphilpsych.bsky.social is (for real this time) Friday, Jan 31, at 11:59 Eastern! It's going to be a fantastic meeting, with keynotes from Louise Antony and Fei Xu, some incredible invited symposia, and a preconference "Possibilities Near and Far".
Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 (June 19-21, 2025 at Cornell) is going to be 🔥🔥🔥 and the submission portal is now live! Submit abstracts of 750 words+1 figure by Jan 24, 2025 at 11:59pm EST easychair.org/my/conferenc....
Log in to EasyChair for SPP2025
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January 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just a reminder that the deadline to submit to @socphilpsych.bsky.social is (for real this time) Friday, Jan 31, at 11:59 Eastern! It's going to be a fantastic meeting, with keynotes from Louise Antony and Fei Xu, some incredible invited symposia, and a preconference "Possibilities Near and Far".
Check out my new syllabus for my PhD seminar on foundations of cogsci! this semester will be so much fun flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...
PHIL 755: Foundations of Cognitive Science | Notion
Spring 2025
Thursdays, 4-6:30pm, South College E301
Eleonore Neufeld
UMass Amherst, Philosophy
flaxen-store-af3.notion.site
January 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Check out my new syllabus for my PhD seminar on foundations of cogsci! this semester will be so much fun flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...
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I have a new paper coming out in Ergo about algorithmic fairness, for anyone who might be interested in that sort of thing.
philpapers.org/rec/FLEAFC
philpapers.org/rec/FLEAFC
Will Fleisher, Algorithmic Fairness Criteria as Evidence - PhilPapers
Statistical fairness criteria are widely used for diagnosing and ameliorating algorithmic bias. However, these fairness criteria are controversial as their use raises several difficult questions. I ar...
philpapers.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I have a new paper coming out in Ergo about algorithmic fairness, for anyone who might be interested in that sort of thing.
philpapers.org/rec/FLEAFC
philpapers.org/rec/FLEAFC
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This profoundly important piece by Mohammad Alsaafin is a must-read today: www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We Have a Ceasefire Deal, but This Isn’t the End
The widely reported agreement must hold. We haven’t begun to understand the full scope of the horrors Israel wrought. And Palestine is still not free.
www.thenation.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This profoundly important piece by Mohammad Alsaafin is a must-read today: www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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I am following the cue of Gazans celebrating on the streets and trying to feel some joy. I’m facing how numb I’ve become in order to survive. I longed for this moment for 467 days, and it’s here. And I don’t know how to access my feelings about it.
January 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am following the cue of Gazans celebrating on the streets and trying to feel some joy. I’m facing how numb I’ve become in order to survive. I longed for this moment for 467 days, and it’s here. And I don’t know how to access my feelings about it.
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I wrote a blog post about the very different approaches to citing old papers in philosophy vs. psychology - and which approach is the better one
xphi.net/2025/01/03/h...
xphi.net/2025/01/03/h...
January 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I wrote a blog post about the very different approaches to citing old papers in philosophy vs. psychology - and which approach is the better one
xphi.net/2025/01/03/h...
xphi.net/2025/01/03/h...
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Is generic language—eg “Brits have bad teeth”—a unique cause of harmful social cognition (eg stereotyping)? @eneufeld.bsky.social et al review the evidence and conclude the generics→ social bias link is more complex and less direct than previously thought
https://buff.ly/48jgRFC
https://buff.ly/48jgRFC
October 23, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Is generic language—eg “Brits have bad teeth”—a unique cause of harmful social cognition (eg stereotyping)? @eneufeld.bsky.social et al review the evidence and conclude the generics→ social bias link is more complex and less direct than previously thought
https://buff.ly/48jgRFC
https://buff.ly/48jgRFC
New paper alert! Junhyo Lee's & my paper on pornography's effects on desire is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly. We're expanding on Langton&West's presupposition model of pornography to explain its effects on desires, and argue that it issues implicit directives. philpapers.org/rec/LEEHDP?f...
February 18, 2024 at 9:02 PM
New paper alert! Junhyo Lee's & my paper on pornography's effects on desire is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly. We're expanding on Langton&West's presupposition model of pornography to explain its effects on desires, and argue that it issues implicit directives. philpapers.org/rec/LEEHDP?f...
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SPP abstracts for the 50th Anniversary Meeting are due in one month, with a great lineup of speakers and events!
December 31, 2023 at 5:26 PM
SPP abstracts for the 50th Anniversary Meeting are due in one month, with a great lineup of speakers and events!
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The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now.
sites.google.com/view/causali...
Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!
sites.google.com/view/causali...
Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!
November 20, 2023 at 6:59 PM
The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now.
sites.google.com/view/causali...
Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!
sites.google.com/view/causali...
Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!
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famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
November 20, 2023 at 3:08 PM
famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
What's your favorite definition (/characterization/..) of analog and digital representations?
October 17, 2023 at 5:30 PM
What's your favorite definition (/characterization/..) of analog and digital representations?
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🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!
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October 7, 2023 at 12:37 PM
🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!
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Check out my syllabus for my grad seminar "Foundations of Cognitive Science"! flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...
October 2, 2023 at 2:37 PM
Check out my syllabus for my grad seminar "Foundations of Cognitive Science"! flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL-755-Fou...