🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹
🤠 Philosopher at Purdue 🤓
• Mind, neuro, cognitive science, AI •
Follow these accounts for Phil science of the mind + brain related stuff:
🧠 @socphilneuro.bsky.social &
🎂 @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social
📚 daniellejwilliams.com
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹This Friday Neera Jain will be joining CAIC to discuss their work "Toward a Cognition-based Control System Framework for Human Teaming with Intelligent Agents" -- Join us at 10am in BRNG 7119! 🤖
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- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Don’t forget: Submit a symposium abstract by March 1st on any topic in philosophy and neuroscience. The selected symposium will be the SPAN affiliate session at the PSA. 🥳
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- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹👀 Updated Coffee & CAIC schedule 🔥
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Highlights from today’s Coffee & CAIC with @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Philosophy professors are also qualified nominators
- WashU PNP postdoc app just went live! They have 1 opening this year. I absolutely LOVED my time at WashU and I loved living in St. Louis. It's an amazing place to study and live.
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹BIG events happening in neuroscience at Purdue! Check the flyers for more information 👀 🧠 👂 🥳
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- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹This coming Friday @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social will be presenting their work 'Norms, Articulated and Un--' at Coffee & CAIC! Join us at 10am in BRNG 7119 🥳
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹due date is about a month away 👀
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹🔔✨Call for papers and symposia on Frances Egan’s (@francesegan.bsky.social) ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04) alongside Neural Mechanisms Online and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social)! More info: tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan #philsky
- i just added a bunch of stickers to the philosophy shop on my website 👀
- The CAIC conference lineup is live!! April 2-3, 2026 at Purdue 🥳 I'm so excited to do cognitive science with a very interdisciplinary group full of some of the most amazing researchers thinking about really cool stuff!
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- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹congrats to @dryan149.bsky.social for being featured in Purdue Today 🥳🥳🥳
- SPAN now has affiliate status with the PSA! Take the reigns and plan an ENTIRE symposium with 3-4 speakers on any topic in philosophy of neuroscience! 👀 🥳 Submit by March 1st to be considered.
- 2 new books today 👀 1 recommended by @jyoshimi.bsky.social and one written by him! 🥳 📖 🧠
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹We're no longer posting on twitter. Since we wanted to ensure our authors continue to receive as much coverage as possible for their work, we can now also be found on linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹The Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation this week. Comments by Mazviita Chirimuuta, Caitlin Mace & Adina Roskies, and Oron Shagrir. philosophyofbrains.com/2026/01/12/f...
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- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹The 52nd annual meeting of the SPP will be at JHU, June 17-20 📣 Submit your work by January 16! 📣
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Highlights from SPAN at the APA! 🥳🧠
- New post on The FEEDBACK by Caitlin Mace on content indeterminacy! It's a good one!!
- New Post on The FEEDBACK by Caitlin Mace (University of Pittsburgh)! Check it out and leave a comment if you have something to say! 🥳 thefeedback.blog/2026/01/06/o...
- SPAN at the APA 👀 🧠
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Great review of @thebusyowl.bsky.social's book! Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry is an extremely well written and empowering book that can appeal to an interdisciplinary audience ... it brings lived experience back into the heart of psychiatry www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- midwest danielle says things like “wow, it’s 45 out— what a very nice day.” california danielle would never
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹SPAN's new year email just went out. Click to see what's coming in 2026:
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Invited speaker lineup is out for SPP 2026! More information on the meeting here: www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html Submissions accepted until Jan 16! Come hang in Baltimore; conference is at Johns Hopkins from June 17-20, 2026! @socphilpsych.bsky.social @joshrottman.bsky.social #SPP2026
- i've updated my history of AI poster. new version is on my website. 🥳
- there have been some minor edits since this screenshot grab, but the most current version is always on my website.
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Happy Holidays from SPAN! ❄️🧠
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- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹🔥 New Publication 🔥 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social have a forthcoming book review in MIND 🥳 Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/FOSROA
- don't forget about this one either! 👀
- 🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc (This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
- Boosting! Don't forget about this 👀
- 🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the Philosophy & Neuroscience Collaborative Mentorship Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/mentorship (This is 1/2 announcements we will make over the next 1-2 weeks.)
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹highlights from today’s talk with Eamon Duede and Daniel Friedman 🔥
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- ⚙️ New Publication ⚙️ @okaydaniellle.bsky.social's new paper 'Computationalism, implementation, and the literal interpretation of computational models in neuroscience: distinctions with a difference' is forthcoming in Philosophy and The Mind Sciences. Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/DANCIA-3
- tis the * season *job market
- i have now reached the custom book embosser phase of my career
- The second SPAN program just dropped and its amazing!! Consider submitting a project proposal. 🥳
- 🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc (This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹If you would like to volunteer as a mentor for the SPAN Mentorship Program, you can fill out a form on our website. We cannot guarantee that volunteers will be paired with mentees, but we will consider you when pairings are made. Mentors suggested on an app do NOT need to fill out the form.
- idk kinda weirds me out that Quine was around when Britney Spears released Baby One More Time.
- the talk was really interesting but unfortunately it bakes no philosophic bread.
- SPAN just dropped their new mentorship program open to undergrads and grads! Apply with or without mentors! 🥳🥳🥳
- 🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the Philosophy & Neuroscience Collaborative Mentorship Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/mentorship (This is 1/2 announcements we will make over the next 1-2 weeks.)
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹SCOOP: The Computational Theory of Mind is in the Epstein Files.
- the journal review gods are working overtime today
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Ken Aizawa's excellent new book is now available, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
- new coaster set came today 💾
- I'm updating my AI poster to fill out the last few years (2022-2025). I have an idea of how it will go, but I thought it would be a good idea to get a wide range of input to make sure I cover as much as possible. Please comment (preferably with a source link) something you think is worth adding. 🥳
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence. 🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹November 19th: Dr. Federico Rodriguez-Porcel will be giving a talk titled: “From Borges to the Neurology Clinic: Navigating the Limits and Opportunities of Language” Register with the @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Are you at SFN? 🧠👀 Swing by our poster and say hello!
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹🌊 NEW PUBLICATION 🌊 : @dryan149.bsky.social's new paper "Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching" is out now in Topoi! Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹🤖 NEW PAPER 🤖 : @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's new paper 'AI empiricism: the only game in town?' is forthcoming in 'The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies' (Routledge). Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Heading to the Eastern APA? Stop by SPAN's session on Cognitive Ontology! 🧠
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Don't forget to submit your philosophy and psychology papers to SSPP 2026 in Atlanta! It's going to be a banger. southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Today, in the Psychology Department, CAIC Co-Director, Sarah Robins gave a wonderful talk on memory during the Seminar for Neurotrauma and Disease!
- 10/10 emoji use by Norbert Weiner in 1910 writing to his father about how the guy who supposedly discredited his views doesn’t do a very good job at it.
- very nice talk by Joe McCaffrey on functional localization— it’s an easy listen with tons of great information about the debate. m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmD...
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Delighted to be talking about mathematical phenomenology next week on zoom. It will be a fairly high level overview, and I'll be sandwiched between a whole bunch of other exciting talks on the same topic. Thanks for organizing @johanneskleiner.bsky.social !
- i, personally, identify as a hologram.
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹New post now up on THE FEEDBACK: Epistemic reduction of the concept of ‘decision’ by: Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) Read the post here: thefeedback.blog/2025/11/03/e...
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!
- I’m really looking forward to this next year! 🧠 ⚙️ 💭 🌀
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Another Philosophy & Neuroscience Salon hosted by @pessoabrain.bsky.social is coming up on November 5th! Link below 👇 If you'd like to have span partnership events emailed to you monthly, join our mailing list: philandneuro.com
- does this count as a conference photo? 👀 I really enjoyed our session on realism in neuroscience!
- brb updating my cv 👀 The ISPSM was a lot of fun and even more fun to be able to submit a meme that matched my talk!
- Oh, and for those who enjoy spitting their coffee out at memes, we have an absolute winner from @okaydaniellle.bsky.social 10/10, Danielle!
- Tomorrow :)
- This time with a better graphic and an actual date 😶 catch our symposium on realism in neuroscience at ISPSM👀 @ispsm.bsky.social
- Abstract sounds interesting 👀
- Just accepted: Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science – Peter Tan Abstract in alt text or read the paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky
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- Our website is now live! 🥳 Visit us online to find CAIC events, info about Purdue's new cognitive science major, and to see what we're up to! caic.centers.purdue.edu
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹APA member John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis) argues against the concept of "emergence" as an explanation for life, consciousness, and time. iai.tv/articles/eme...
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Was just about to post about this pet peeve in the AI lit, and then remembered I already have ...and yet the phrase lives on
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹Join us for another year celebrating ISPSM! Registration still open - and still free to all.
- 💫 Our conference #ISPSM25 is just around the corner (24-26 October). We hope to see you there! ✨ Visit our website for more information about the programme and to register: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...
- me: this slideshow is taking me forever to make. also me: googles ‘how to make letters into a glittery gif’
- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content. downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
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- Reposted by 🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹@evanwestra.bsky.social is heading to Princeton to discuss a paper titled 'Desire without Metarepresentation' at the Perspectives on Perspectives Workshop 🥳
- hear me out: uploading a preprint with matching merch on my website
