Today at #ish2023 I’ll discuss challenges to the high-fidelity focus in cultural evolution and some suggestions on how to approach collective knowledge. Come one, come all!

New preprint out with Joseph Stubbersfield: “Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments” osf.io/8zg4d

Karola Stotz was the one who welcomed me to the ish tribe. In some sense my talk today is continuous with reflections developmental niche construction. I’m so glad for this session in her memory.

Paul Griffiths talking about Karola Stotz's work on developmental niche construction at ISHPSSB 2023.

. Ehud Lamm إيهود 🟣 compares the conceptual options when talking about collective knowledge and cultural Evolution #ISH2023

We are thrilled that OUP author Michela Massimi Michela Massimi has won the 2023 Lakatos Award LSE Philosophy for 'Perspectival Realism'. This book offers an original view concerning realism in science -- see more via the book page: bit.ly/3G1XOmy

… Adrian Stencel @AdrianoStencel , Javier Suárez Javier Suárez HPSB and Sophie Veigl Sophie Juliane Veigl for the Grene Prize; Devin Gouvêa for the Callebaut Prize … (these were FANTASTIC papers, do go read them!)

@AdrianoStencel Javier Suárez HPSB Sophie Juliane Veigl … and last but certainly not least, the immense honour of the David Hull Prize to two giants of our field: Gar Allen and my inimitable colleague John Dupré #egenis

Excellent!

ISHPSSB #ish2023 Ruse & Reiss’s The New Biology (2023) diagnoses a new wave of holism in current biology. A full room this morning as scholars evaluate this claim. It’s Emma Sigworth speaking in this photo

Past-prez of ISHPSSB Greg Radick: “it is an accident of history that our science of inheritance became Mendelized” #ISH2023 at its best

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Will your academic society be next? Help the fight against fascism. mpg.de/20643396/freed…

Awesome! Congratulations. #histbio #philbio #histsci

🥁 Our commentary on Cecilia Heyes's “Rethinking Norm Psychology” is out in Perspectives on Psychological Science! (w/ Ehud Lamm إيهود 🟣) 🥁 We claim that social interactions are important in shaping social groups and point to supporting evidence. Check it out ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Discussion Forum on my "Rethinking Norm Psychology", edited by Daniel Kelly. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collecti…. 14 great commentaries by Pete Richerson, Kim Sterelny, Ross Pain, Kati Kish Bar-On, Ehud Lamm إيهود 🟣, Jonathan Birch, Susana Monso, Richard Moore, Patricia Lockwood ...

הרבה ספרים למסירה על חינוך, מדע המדינה, ציונות, היסטוריה. רחוב תאשור 45 זכרון יעקב.