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Breaking news: There will soon be a specialist journal devoted to the interdisciplinary field of EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY This will be enormously valuable to the field

Fresh out in Psychological Review! Why do so many societies explain events through fate, spirits, or divine will—but rarely invoke “chance”? My new article examines the cross-cultural absence of chance-based explanations and what it reveals about human cognition.

📢 Call for Papers! The Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the upcoming workshop A Population Doctrine in Neuroscience (Oct. 25–26, 2025). 🧠 Explore new ideas on the population doctrine. 📅 Deadline: June 15 Details: ow.ly/KeiG50VJRPK

Huh. Looks like Plato was right. A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embeddings without seeing the original text. Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike.

New preprint:  arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849 Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, and Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social)  "What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life" We asked a set of current interdisciplinary scientists for a <3 sentence definition of "life" (or an argument

Open Science by Tom E. Hardwicke: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

All the wonderful analysis above is thanks to Clara Colombatto , who led the study! The link to the full article: (5/5) nature.com/articles/s4427…

Stay Informed! Keep up with all Center events and news over the summer by following our social media! @center4philsci #CenterEvents #FollowUs #StayInformed #SocialMediaUpdates

Plan ahead! Summer is upon us, but we are busy preparing for the Fall Semester. Mark your calendars for our upcoming events in Fall and look forward to news and pictures of our ninth annual PSP later this summer! #FallSemester #PSP25#PlanAhead

For the new kids in back: If you hate statistics, you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

New Deadline! Call for Papers! The Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the upcoming workshop A Population Doctrine in Neuroscience (Oct 25–26 2025). 🧠 Explore new ideas on the population doctrine. 📅 Deadline: June 23 Details: ow.ly/KeiG50VJRPK

Attention by Wayne Wu: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

A now-classic experiment from Kevin Tobia found an effect of morality (becoming morally worse vs. becoming morally better) on intuitions about personal identity A new study now looks at that effect across a variety of different cultures

Core systems of music perception Review by Sam Mehr Free access before Aug 2: tinyurl.com/2rfkw6pw

Excited to contribute to this symposium on the Politics of Time in MENA! #MENA #ArabSpring Find full piece here: zenodo.org/records/153892… #APSAMENA 🧵

Please help us by welcoming the PSP9 students to the Center! They will be joining us in just a couple weeks! Look forward to future updates on our program this year! Learn more here: ow.ly/9thZ50Sng5F

We had a delightful conference on AI Assertion at the IDea_Lab Graz (Austria) a few days ago. Great keynotes by Saskia Nagel, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Bertram Malle, Mark Alfano and Edouard Machery. Very interesting contributed talks. Thanks to everyone who joined!

New studies on the ordinary concept of disease (from Varga, Latham & Machery) The surprising result: People are more inclined to think that what you have counts as a “disease” if you are a morally bad person philpapers.org/archive/VARTWA… Geography of Philosophy Project

Conference on legal interpretation, also from an empirical perspective, in Tartu, Estonia, CFP deadline is the 23rd of July: philevents.org/event/show/137…