Devin Curry

I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

does anybody happen to know of a source reporting this fodor story?

Will Fleisher@willfleisher.bsky.social

... his work might be used by ID people to undermine people's confidence in evolution. Fodor apparently thundered out something like: "I am paid handsomely by the state of New Jersey to discover truths and announce them. It is not my concern what other people do with them."

@josephfgough.bsky.social

if not, would you be okay with me citing your bluesky post, @willfleisher.bsky.social?

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Joe

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And I just discovered that as of yesterday, it is available online! academic.oup.com/book/63514

academic.oup.comAfter Mind: Myths of Mind and Mechanism in Philosophy, Science, Medicine, and LawAbstract. The concept of mind and the category of the mental are hugely influential. They are also fundamentally mistaken. They are ill-suited to describin

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The working title of this one was "Stop Calling Ryle a Behaviorist" Please obey. Or, if you must, read the paper and become rationally compelled to obey. philpapers.org/rec/CURNBN

jonathanweisberg.orgPhilosophy Fumbles the BagAcademic philosophers have just been handed a golden ticket. And, as far as I can tell, we’re responding by looking around for the nearest garbage can to toss it away in. LLMs have made MPUs cheap as ...

beautiful that weisberg has returned to the blogosphere to resuscitate the blogospheriest debate

to me, the redeeming feature of peer review is that it--more than publication itself--gets philosophers who don't already know (of) each other to closely read each other's work

me too. i am also kinetic about the body, all bodies, everywhere

did just learn we've had a gas leak in the house, possibly related

Devin Curry@devinsanchezcurry.com

i used to have to set a draft aside for a month for it to leave my head so i could edit it decently well. now a few days does the trick. enhanced productivity through cognitive decline

i used to have to set a draft aside for a month for it to leave my head so i could edit it decently well. now a few days does the trick. enhanced productivity through cognitive decline

there are a hundred different ways to teach an excellent humanities course to 13 students. technology has only augmented the diversity of potentially edifying pedagogical approaches at ivies and fancy SLACs. these facts are basically irrelevant to my job as a humanities prof at a public university

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(i think joe cruz's nyt piece, which acknowledges that "there will be challenges of scale", is perfectly fine. what's deeply annoying is the nyt printing 1000 of these pieces on teaching by Williams profs for every one piece on teaching by a CUNY prof)

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and mail day!

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pub day! www.routledge.com/Introducing-...

pub day! www.routledge.com/Introducing-...

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I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

routledge.comModern Mind: Essays in Honor of Gary HatfieldGary Hatfield is widely recognized as a leading historian of modern philosophy, especially for his work on Descartes and Kant, as well as a leading philosopher of psychology. This volume features chap...

we are giving (a few of) the people what they want

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Scott Edgar

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I can promise that, when this book exists, it will be full of very cool papers.

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evidence that another book will exist

@kennethblack.bsky.social

evidence that another book will exist

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Kenneth Black

18 Sept

New paper! “Order of Explanation: Having it Both Ways” is now forthcoming in Noûs. It’s been a really fun paper to write and I’m stoked to share it.

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14 Sept

t: -2w

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11 Sept

when we met at a conference as grad students, jake asked a great question about my anti-fodor talk, listened to my reply, and then declared "you're, like, my arch-nemesis" afraid the common ground we've since achieved can only mean we've gotten old

Jake Quilty-Dunn@quiltydunn.bsky.social

New paper, co-authored with Justin Wood, in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: The Nativist-Empiricist Debate Is Broken We argue that radical nativism and radical empiricism are compatible and, in some cases, both plausibly true. So something is wrong. 🧵 Author share link here, valid til Oct 31:

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸

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8 Sept

This is a very cool new book! Read it! Teach it!

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Sarah Robins

@sarahrobins.bsky.social

8 Sept

This is a fabulous volume. I enjoyed the chance to think about how episodic memory fits into standard phil mind (spoiler: it doesn’t), and the other chapters are are all so fun and creative. A testament tk Devin and Louise’s lovely vision of philosophy of mind today. Highly recommend!

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I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

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Chris Coleman

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TFW your brother in law weaves your art into his book about Philosophy 😍 (Also love having my work out there in the world like this…)

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I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

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Part I is called SEEING AND FEELING

Chapter 1 features @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and @eschwitz.bsky.social discussing whether "to be conscious is for the lights to be on inside" is a good metaphor.

I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

The blurbs nicely capture what we were going for.

The book has twenty chapters, each of which showcases a current debate in the philosophy of mind (without presuming any background in philosophy or cognitive science). The twenty chapters are also divided into five parts, each of which works as a readymade course unit.

4 Sept

i agree with the babies

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26 Aug

nor is the distinctive thing about "race realism" the idea that race is biologically real. insofar as there is any reason to believe in the biological reality of races, that very same reason undercuts "race realism"

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social

i don't particularly expect the public discourse to be conducted in terms that are metaphysically respectable in general, but i do believe in us on this one: we can recognize that the distinctive thing about the view is not the idea that races are real

academic.oup.comWhat Is Race?: Four Philosophical ViewsAbstract. What is race? This is a question that has haunted human interaction and vexed scholars. In this book, four race theorists debate how best to answ

26 Aug

Quayshawn Spencer: "it turns out that the DNA evidence that supports the existence of human continental populations comes from non-protein-coding and non-functional DNA in the human genome" (104).

25 Aug

exhaustive list of entities 4yo now knows to be dead: some family pets some roadkill hundreds of spotted lanternflies a neighborhood whistlepig some stars in the sky a few great-grandparents Kobe Bryant Donald Davidson Dolly Parton

25 Aug

(she saw the cover of Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation and said "he died". JTB baby)

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25 Aug

oh dinosaurs too ofc

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24 Aug

Fabulous new entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just dropped! 🐝🐵 🐘🐠Animal Normativity 🦌🐶🦜🐬https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/ authored by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social

plato.stanford.edu Animal Normativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

14 Aug

"a computer wrote this; i merely supervised" "boss says we can publish this under your name, but can't credit the computer with authorship" "ah, bummer, sorry for wasting your time"

12 Aug

little free library had rooney's intermezzo, kant's prolegomena, and a wasp's nest. A+

16 July

corrected proofs and index sent to press. 3.5 years after louise and i decided to do this, we are done.

Devin Curry@devinsanchezcurry.com

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15 July

a fourth journal just invited me to review the same (unchanged) manuscript. please god get me out of this niche

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philosophyofbrains.comJoshua Mugg: Response to CommentatorsResponse to Commentators Joshua Mugg Response To Curry One goal of my project is to provide an empirically informed account of cognitive control that can be marshalled in defense of voluntarism of belief. Curry offers a dilemma for my account of control and voluntarism about belief. By his lights, I am engaged in a homuncular functionalist project of explaining human reasoning by positing smaller and dumber homunculi.

10 July

In our last post for the week, Josh Mugg responds to the comments on his book. Thanks very much to Josh, Devin, Lesley, and Aliya for their contributions, and thanks to you for following along! Don't forget to join the discussion in the comments.

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philosophyofbrains.comAliya Rumana: Comments on “From Human Reasoning to Belief”Comments on "From Human Reasoning to Belief" Aliya Rumana The holding power of dual-process theory in experimental process psychology is mysterious if we don’t consider the basic constraints on statistical testing. First, every study aims to reject the null hypothesis (H0) in favour of the alternative hypothesis (HA). Second, H0 claims that there is no difference in the cognitive process underlying observable behaviour—i.e., single-process theory (SPT)—whereas…

9 July

Last but certainly not least in the commentaries for this week, we have Aliya Rumana commenting on "From Human Reasoning to Belief"!

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philosophyofbrains.comLesley Walker: Commentary on “From Human Reasoning to Belief”Commentary on "From Human Reasoning to Belief" Lesley Walker In Joshua Mugg's book, From Human Reasoning to Belief, he offers an empirically viable alternative to dual process theory and in doing so unifies three contentious cases of belief. The first are cases of wishful thinking, the second, cases of faith, and the third cases often labeled as the result of implicit attitudes.

8 July

Today we keep our symposium on Josh Mugg's book rolling, with comments from Lesley Walker!

philosophyofbrains.comDevin Sanchez Curry: DJ HomunculusDJ Homunculus Devin Sanchez Curry The first aim of Josh Mugg's From Human Reasoning to Belief is to propose a new, empirically viable theory of central cognition (and especially belief fixation and revision): the Soundboard Account of Human Reasoning. The book achieves this aim admirably, both detailing how extant evidence supports the Soundboard Account and laudably proposing specific ways to test the theory directly against its chief competitors (namely, dual process theories and Eric Mandelbaum's Spinozan theory).

7 July

wrote about putting a donk on it, and in particular about *who* puts a bangin donk on it (it = belief fixation)

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Check out our first commentary on Mugg's "From Human Reasoning to Belief," by Devin Sanchez Curry!

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philosophyofbrains.comJoshua Mugg: Precis for “From Human Reasoning to Belief”Precis of "From Human Reasoning to Belief" Joshua Mugg Many thanks to the Brains Blog and Dan Burnston for the opportunity to discuss my book with Devin Curry, Aliya Rumana, and Lesley Walker. In this initial post, I will provide an overview of the book. Those interested in a longer overview can check out my contribution to The Nature of Belief, …

6 July

The intro post to this week's symposium on Josh Mugg's book is live! Check it out, and don't forget to participate in the comments section!

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Christopher A. Riddle

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2 July

When my school was cutting my major, I posted something on X about my anxiety and disappointment. A trustee recommended I read some stoicism because he found that it helped him (with no sense of irony that the discipline he was recommending I read was just eliminated by the board he sat on).

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Dan Devine

@yourmandevine.bsky.social

11 June

Method Man ends a very good Wu-Tang Clan halftime show with, "Knicks in 5, what y'all talking about?" You don't know him, and you don't know his style.

10 June

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