Tomasz Szubart

Chris Cousens, Tweet acts and quote-tweetable acts - PhilPapers Online communication can often seem different to offline talk. Structural features of social media sites can shape the things we do with words. In this paper, I argue that the practice ...

Wonder how Bluesky acts differ: philpapers.org/rec/COUTAA-4

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Szubart, Tomasz (2025) What are musical emotions? A proposal for a functional–teleosemantic approach. ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, 15 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 2084­–1043

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27467/

The Refrigerator Light Error [illustration by Nicolas Demers, p. 218 of The Weirdness of the World]

We can introspectively test the Global Workspace Theory of consciousness: Just introspect your experience right now. Is there a welter of detail in many sensory modalities at once? If so, GWT must be false.

Sadly, we are utterly incompetent at introspection.

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Köszönöm szépen to Timár András for another great illustration!
In "What’s Up with the Blackbird?"[short-piece in polish: "Co słychać u kosa?"] I'm functionally considering differences in auditory perception in myself and singing birds, with a surprising outcome: the latter don't seem to hear tones.

Co słychać u kosa? - Czasopismo Meakultura O tym, czego możemy o muzyce nauczyć się od kosa, a także w jak różny od ptaków sposób słyszymy i odbieramy dźwięki, pisze Tomasz Szubart.

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What kind of functions musical emotions are and how do they fit into biological and cultural evolution?
Managed finally to put on virtual paper and in english some preliminary ideas regarding my functional-teleosemantic account of musical emotion:
argument.uken.krakow.pl/article/view...

Towards the performer or the notes?

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I'm speaking today at PSA Around the World 2025: "From Signal to Symbol: a Teleosemantic Framework for Musical Emotions".

Mushrooms

Here's some outcome of philosophical fieldwork; a mentoring session in the woods with my boss. Evidence that supervision can provide fruiting bodies.

Maybe retirees are divided into two categories? The "change-not-aplicable" think of themselves as the real ones.

Glad to be there! But Central and Eastern Europe, please!:) Possibly this terminology could be a problem in philosophy of geography as well anyways.

Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

The logical form sounds engaging. Are variables that important?:)

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I'd say he is rather a classic of contemporary Mitteleuropean literature.

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Painting Orfeo & Euridice, Frederic Leighton 1864. Book cover on musical meaning by Tomasz Szubart.

My first book (in Polish) is out: "Music and Mind: The Problem of Musical Meaning in the Light of Contemporary Cognitive Aesthetics of Music". Historical & contemporary philosophical accounts mapped on neuro/cog/evo takes. Musical representation is structural, neo-mechanistic and teleosemantic.

Great saucer, for the undecided whether they want a Chinese tea or a (quite flat) egg for breakfast. Also, it would be great to have another cup on it...

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Huge thanks to the #ESPP2025 team at IFiS PAN for a superb meeting in Warsaw. I presented a teleosemantic account of musical emotions—how function & history give music content. Grateful for the sharp questions! espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

Japanese man sitting on low couch resting elbows on small low desk gazing up in the air at two butterflies.

How I’ll be spending the day.

Hokusai, Philosopher Looking at Two Butterflies

Complexities of humane teleology

Is its creativity getting better (compared to childhood, f.ex.)? Maybe it's our advanced inner LLM, (or rather LEM, "E" for everything) the one aspiring to be a writer?

What was to be shown.

Why not?! Maybe we could learn again about men with faces in the middle of their chests, etc.?

Bed.

CEEPUS - Central European Exchange Program for University Studies - allowed me to provide a series of lectures on music cognition last week at KRE in Budapest. Amazing group of international students - thank you all for great discussions!

To make the sets isomorphic, we'd need something in relation to 'money' (for guns it's empty set, obvs). Extending 'organic food'? A way to go, but doable...

Just today, we discussed Tao Te Ching during "Philosophy and Cultures" class (in a context of its foundations in Zen).
One can only wish Tao is easily recognisable, but some politics seem off-road these days.

Pupil: "Master, is there water on Mars?"
Teacher: "Have you ever been thirsty?"