Joshua Shepherd
@philosophyshepherd.bsky.social
ICREA Research Prof, U Autónoma Barcelona, philosophy, mind/brain sciences.
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Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
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Please join us tomorrow at UPF Poblenou, Barcelona, for the Valence Asymmetries seminar (12:00-13:30). Our own project member Morgan Moyer will give the talk "Affect is prominent in word meaning", based on joint work with Anouch Bourmayan, Brent Strickland, and myself.
Valence Asymmetries Seminar
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA | CAMPUS DEL POBLENOU, 52.701 CARRER DE ROC BORONAT, BARCELONA, ESPANYA We are delighted to welcome you to the Valence Asymmetries Seminar Series. We invite both local and i...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Please join us tomorrow at UPF Poblenou, Barcelona, for the Valence Asymmetries seminar (12:00-13:30). Our own project member Morgan Moyer will give the talk "Affect is prominent in word meaning", based on joint work with Anouch Bourmayan, Brent Strickland, and myself.
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There is also good work.
I wrote about how advanced AI might gradually eat away at human interdependence, dissolving the glue that underpins human solidarity and cooperation. The risk here would not come from misaligned AI, but from how well-aligned AI threatens human alignment 👇 www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/superintel...
Superintelligence and the Decline of Human Interdependence
What happens to humanity when we no longer need each other?
www.conspicuouscognition.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There is also good work.
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Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured.
Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)!
Interested? Check it out ⬇️
Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)!
Interested? Check it out ⬇️
Exciting milestone, my first PhD preprint is out! 🎉
Together w/ @israelhalperin.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social, we put together A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Effort 🪐
If you’ve ever asked “what is effort, and how to measure it?”, this one's for you 😎
🚀 read it here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Together w/ @israelhalperin.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social, we put together A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Effort 🪐
If you’ve ever asked “what is effort, and how to measure it?”, this one's for you 😎
🚀 read it here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured.
Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)!
Interested? Check it out ⬇️
Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)!
Interested? Check it out ⬇️
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This is now out (by me, Patrick Forber and Josh Shepherd):
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cooperation, Cognition, and the Elusive Role of Joint Agency | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Cooperation, Cognition, and the Elusive Role of Joint Agency
www.cambridge.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is now out (by me, Patrick Forber and Josh Shepherd):
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Just accepted:
'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated'
– Peter Langland-Hassan
Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated'
– Peter Langland-Hassan
Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
August 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Just accepted:
'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated'
– Peter Langland-Hassan
Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated'
– Peter Langland-Hassan
Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
so Nous, PPR, and now Phil Imprint, aren't taking submissions. Nice.
July 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
so Nous, PPR, and now Phil Imprint, aren't taking submissions. Nice.
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The APSC affiliated conference "Creativity, Agency, and Value," which will take place at the University of Geneva 21-22 May 2025, will also be available remotely!
Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...
Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...
Creativity, Agency, and Value Conference
Speakers : Alice Helliwell, Andrea Rivadulla-Duró, Antti Kauppinen, Claire Anscomb, Elliot Samuel Paul, Francesca Secco, Joshua Shepherd, Patrik Engisch. Location : Espace Colladon, University of...
www.creaphil.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The APSC affiliated conference "Creativity, Agency, and Value," which will take place at the University of Geneva 21-22 May 2025, will also be available remotely!
Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...
Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...
if even eye movements are driven by effort minimization, then what's going on with conscious feelings of effort
We show that eye-movements are selected based on effort minimization - finally final in @elife.bsky.social
eLife's digest:
elifesciences.org/digests/9776...
& the 'convincing & important' paper:
elifesciences.org/articles/97760
I consider this my coolest ever project!
#VisionScience #Neuroscience
eLife's digest:
elifesciences.org/digests/9776...
& the 'convincing & important' paper:
elifesciences.org/articles/97760
I consider this my coolest ever project!
#VisionScience #Neuroscience
A move you can afford
Where a person will look next can be predicted based on how much it costs the brain to move the eyes in that direction.
elifesciences.org
April 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
if even eye movements are driven by effort minimization, then what's going on with conscious feelings of effort
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Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
March 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
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It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆
Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June.
www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June.
www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
March 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆
Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June.
www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June.
www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
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I can’t get over the fact that after all the amazing things AI could have been, we got a bunch of sycophantic little machine shits that at any given moment are stealing from you, plagiarizing you, defaming you, manipulating you, lying to you, or turning you into nonconsensual porn
March 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I can’t get over the fact that after all the amazing things AI could have been, we got a bunch of sycophantic little machine shits that at any given moment are stealing from you, plagiarizing you, defaming you, manipulating you, lying to you, or turning you into nonconsensual porn
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🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity?
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
March 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity?
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
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Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
March 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
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why so many people let these things into their homes, I will never understand
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
arstechnica.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Everyone clap for the crap artists
A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest
Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted
And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest
-Despot
A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest
Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted
And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest
-Despot
March 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Everyone clap for the crap artists
A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest
Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted
And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest
-Despot
A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest
Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted
And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest
-Despot
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the most disastrous team in the eastern conference is using LLMs
76ers president Daryl Morey explained how his team uses A.I. models in decision making.
March 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
the most disastrous team in the eastern conference is using LLMs
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New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📢 Lakatos Award Lecture! ✨
📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book:
📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance
🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR
👇👇👇
📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book:
📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance
🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR
👇👇👇
March 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
📢 Lakatos Award Lecture! ✨
📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book:
📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance
🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR
👇👇👇
📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book:
📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance
🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR
👇👇👇
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TFW Led Zeppelin thinks you suck for appropriating others’ art.
March 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
TFW Led Zeppelin thinks you suck for appropriating others’ art.
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Concluding 2024 with a thread on our most recent empirical manuscript.
"Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression"
elifesciences.org/articles/92860
- by Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. James O'Leary at @tcddublin.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social
#engram #memory #forgetting
"Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression"
elifesciences.org/articles/92860
- by Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. James O'Leary at @tcddublin.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social
#engram #memory #forgetting
Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression
Causal investigation of engram ensembles shows that natural forgetting is an active and reversible process driven by perceptual feedback, supporting the perspective of forgetting an adaptive function ...
elifesciences.org
December 31, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Concluding 2024 with a thread on our most recent empirical manuscript.
"Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression"
elifesciences.org/articles/92860
- by Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. James O'Leary at @tcddublin.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social
#engram #memory #forgetting
"Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression"
elifesciences.org/articles/92860
- by Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. James O'Leary at @tcddublin.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social
#engram #memory #forgetting
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My thoughts from yesterday's hoo ha at the AI Action Summit for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social (Very happy for this to be mistaken as a slightly misty-eyed application for French citizenship) blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with?
The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My thoughts from yesterday's hoo ha at the AI Action Summit for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social (Very happy for this to be mistaken as a slightly misty-eyed application for French citizenship) blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...