Peter Schulte

When two co-authors (the other is @peterschulte.bsky.social) agree on the argument but not on one of its premises…
Is that collaboration or a thought experiment gone wrong? 🤔
Come see how it unfolds at @MeReX 2026 next week at TU Berlin 🧠📄

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

🚨Postdoc-Stelle Theoretische Philosophie, 3+3 Jahre, an der Universität des Saarlandes (4 SWS Lehre)

📅Deadline: 05.02.2026

Wir sind ein sehr nettes (kleines, aber feines 💅) Institut und suchen Verstärkung. Gerne Re-post, danke! #philsky

As 2025 winds down, I've been recollecting ESPP 2025 we organized in Warsaw.
All the keynotes and symposia are now up on YouTube for your procrastination pleasure. Plus full symposium sessions and Q&As. Perfect background listening for grading marathons or post-holiday-dinner recovery. 1/2

CfA

🌟 Unlock funded history/philosophy of science research at the Hebrew U! 🌟 2-yr postdoc, $36K/yr stipend, prime office + faculty access. Starts Oct 2026 for recent PhDs (post-2021). Take it from
someone who’s done it before: you won’t regret it. Check out the CfA 👇

I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.

We are pleased to announce that our next workshop on explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience (examining pluralism, integration, and elimination as competing alternatives) will take place on 25th to 27th February at TU Berlin. You're most welcome to join us there 😀

What We See with Fred Dretske YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)

There is a youtube recording of Dretske's lecture on seeing objects!!! Here's his brick wall example: youtu.be/yLr-HsxT4zI?...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The ris...

😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience

Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!

www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences | 21 | Extrinsical Potentialities are properties that can manifest. Many potentialities are instantiated in virtue of having causal bases that are possible causes for their

Our open access chapter “Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences” (with María Ferreira Ruiz, Marie I. Kaiser & @javiersuarez.bsky.social) is now published in Inductive Metaphysics (Routledge, 2025). Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Yes, that's an adequate one-word summary of the answer, I have to admit 🙂

Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Finally reading @peterschulte.bsky.social Mental Content in my summer project to work through some Cambridge Elements. It is extremely well written: straightforward but nonetheless teaching important distinctions and arguments without unnecessary complexity.

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated! Glad to hear that you find the Element useful 🙂

Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Karl Gustav Bergman, Teleosemantics and universal hybridity - PhilPapers According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU

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We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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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.

Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View - Journal for General Philosophy of Science This paper argues that the so-called scaling-up problem (representation-hunger problem) can be resolved within the mechanistic framework of explanation. Emphasising the problem’s character as an empir...

New paper alert!
My take on solving the scaling-up problem (representation-hunger) using mechanistic compositionality is now out with JGPS! #philsci #philsky

doi.org/10.1007/s108...

The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The 253 most-cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (1) Rawls, A Theory of Justice; (2) Kripke, Naming and Necessity; (3) Parfit, Reasons and Persons; (4) Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; (5) Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

The updated version of the IIT-Concerned letter has now been published in NN, thanks to the herculean efforts of the corresponding authors (thank you!!!). Here's the link. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

You beat me to it 🙂Thanks for the endorsement!

Marc Artiga, Peter Schulte & Nir Fresco, Some Proper Functions are Distal - PhilPapers

Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions.

philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF

🚀 NeuroExp 2025 goes live! 🧠🎥

Due to high demand, we’re streaming keynote lectures LIVE (Feb 19-21, #TUBerlin)!

📡 Livestream 🔗 link available on our website on the morning of the conference: www.merex-project.org/neuroexp2025

#CognitiveNeuroscience #philsky #philsci #cogsci