Philip Laughlin
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Congratulations to Dr. Evan Thompson, who was recently named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar! buff.ly/D0kniM3
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Evan Thompson, who was recently named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar! buff.ly/D0kniM3
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Hearing by Casey O’Callaghan: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7a7ee600
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hearing by Casey O’Callaghan: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7a7ee600
"[T]he Belgian philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh suggests that we now face a new absolutism. The terror we once felt from nature...now comes from the technology we’ve built and no longer fully understand."
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"[T]he Belgian philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh suggests that we now face a new absolutism. The terror we once felt from nature...now comes from the technology we’ve built and no longer fully understand."
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
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Tomorrow! Join us in-person or online!
📣Save the date for the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta!
🗓️ Friday 28 November, 6pm (London time)
📍 LSE campus and online
More: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
🗓️ Friday 28 November, 6pm (London time)
📍 LSE campus and online
More: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta
www.lse.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Tomorrow! Join us in-person or online!
"[S]plendid...impressively synthesizes the philosophy of science, history of neuroscience, and philosophy of mind....[THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED] is mandatory and its arguments must be reckoned with." -- Evan Thompson, MIND
doi.org/10.1093/mind...
doi.org/10.1093/mind...
The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience, by M. Chirimuuta
‘What’s in the brain that ink may character?’ asked Warren S. McCulloch (1964) (borrowing from Shakespeare) shortly before his death. Trained in philosophy
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November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"[S]plendid...impressively synthesizes the philosophy of science, history of neuroscience, and philosophy of mind....[THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED] is mandatory and its arguments must be reckoned with." -- Evan Thompson, MIND
doi.org/10.1093/mind...
doi.org/10.1093/mind...
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Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience, by M. Chirimuuta
‘What’s in the brain that ink may character?’ asked Warren S. McCulloch (1964) (borrowing from Shakespeare) shortly before his death. Trained in philosophy
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November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Happy World Linguistics Day to all who celebrate! Here is a link to some @mitpress.bsky.social books that you might enjoy:
mitpress.mit.edu/search-resul...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happy World Linguistics Day to all who celebrate! Here is a link to some @mitpress.bsky.social books that you might enjoy:
mitpress.mit.edu/search-resul...
mitpress.mit.edu/search-resul...
Mazviita Chirimuuta's Lakatos Award Lecture will be live streamed on Friday, November 28 from the London School of Economics: lse.zoom.us/j/8494972146...
Congratulations to Mazviita on this very prestigious award for her @mitpress.bsky.social book THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED!
Congratulations to Mazviita on this very prestigious award for her @mitpress.bsky.social book THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED!
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Mazviita Chirimuuta's Lakatos Award Lecture will be live streamed on Friday, November 28 from the London School of Economics: lse.zoom.us/j/8494972146...
Congratulations to Mazviita on this very prestigious award for her @mitpress.bsky.social book THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED!
Congratulations to Mazviita on this very prestigious award for her @mitpress.bsky.social book THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED!
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🏆 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
Congratulations! 👏
👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...
Congratulations! 👏
👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...
Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the 2025 Lakatos Award!
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted:…
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June 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🏆 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
Congratulations! 👏
👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...
Congratulations! 👏
👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...
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Happy World Linguistics Day! I write about #language in the key of narrative non-fiction; you might find my books interesting! A thread --
#lingsky #langsky #linguistics
#lingsky #langsky #linguistics
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day! I write about #language in the key of narrative non-fiction; you might find my books interesting! A thread --
#lingsky #langsky #linguistics
#lingsky #langsky #linguistics
"Greg Hickok creatively synthesizes a mass of diverse data into an elegant, sophisticated, and convincing theory, presented with clarity and grace." -- Steven Pinker, author of 'The Language Instinct' and 'The Sense of Style'
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mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
Wired for Words
The neural architecture of language has been a hotly debated topic in neurology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy since the early 1800s. I...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greg Hickok creatively synthesizes a mass of diverse data into an elegant, sophisticated, and convincing theory, presented with clarity and grace." -- Steven Pinker, author of 'The Language Instinct' and 'The Sense of Style'
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
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Enjoy 50% off individual subscriptions to all your favorite MIT Press journals until January 4th, 2026! No code needed at checkout:
Journals Holiday Sale | Journals Gateway | MIT Press
Journals Holiday Sale | Journals Gateway | MIT Press Find gifts for the intellectually curious Enjoy 50% off individual subscriptions to all your favorite MIT Press journals throughout January 4th,…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Enjoy 50% off individual subscriptions to all your favorite MIT Press journals until January 4th, 2026! No code needed at checkout:
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Good piece from @brendannyhan.bsky.social, definitely consistent with my anecdotal impressions from various No Kings events. On a slightly longer view, though, I'm a bit more bullish about protest momentum, as @madva.bsky.social and I argue here.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Good piece from @brendannyhan.bsky.social, definitely consistent with my anecdotal impressions from various No Kings events. On a slightly longer view, though, I'm a bit more bullish about protest momentum, as @madva.bsky.social and I argue here.
Come for the sociological analysis. Stay for the lesson in spelling and grammar.
"How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
"How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Come for the sociological analysis. Stay for the lesson in spelling and grammar.
"How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
"How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Interoception by Catherine Tallon-Baudry: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.84963756
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Interoception by Catherine Tallon-Baudry: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.84963756
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At last! Open Access version of the book on MIT's site. One for the syntax nerds. I argue we need to replace Merge, that there are no Phases, and that we need to rethink the basic theoretical typology of Islands. Feel free to download with abandon! 🐦🐦 #syntax direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Mereological Syntax: Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands
An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.Mereology is the study of part
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November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
At last! Open Access version of the book on MIT's site. One for the syntax nerds. I argue we need to replace Merge, that there are no Phases, and that we need to rethink the basic theoretical typology of Islands. Feel free to download with abandon! 🐦🐦 #syntax direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Oh MIT really does do *beautiful* books! Please order some
Our flash sale ends in a few hours! Last chance to grab a beautiful book for yourself or a friend at 40% off from a site that isn't Amazon. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/flash_sale
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Oh MIT really does do *beautiful* books! Please order some
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
No books at #psynom25 (at least not yet!) but the #OECS squishy brains are a big hit. As are the @mitpress.bsky.social pens, as per usual.
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
No books at #psynom25 (at least not yet!) but the #OECS squishy brains are a big hit. As are the @mitpress.bsky.social pens, as per usual.
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Happy to share this new entry on numerical cognition for the OECS. Thanks to @hbaum.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for making this happen! Apologies if your work isn’t cited! Had to limit cites!!! oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r...
Numerical Cognition
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November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Happy to share this new entry on numerical cognition for the OECS. Thanks to @hbaum.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for making this happen! Apologies if your work isn’t cited! Had to limit cites!!! oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r...
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Mark Thompson Show visit with @madva.bsky.social, first comment: "I am almost 89 years old. I am so worried about what kind of world my great grandchildren are going to grow up in. There has to be a solution to change all this." Feeling this, some ideas. @mitpress.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social
Trump Melts Down Over Reagan Ad & Kneecaps His Own Trade Deal with Canada 10/24/25
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Mark Thompson Show visit with @madva.bsky.social, first comment: "I am almost 89 years old. I am so worried about what kind of world my great grandchildren are going to grow up in. There has to be a solution to change all this." Feeling this, some ideas. @mitpress.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social
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Our holiday flash sale starts today!
Use the code FLASHSALE at The MIT Press Bookstore to enjoy 40% off a selection of books that exemplify the spirit of curiosity and inquiry at the heart of the MIT Press. The sale ends November 21st: mitpress.mit.edu/collections/...
Use the code FLASHSALE at The MIT Press Bookstore to enjoy 40% off a selection of books that exemplify the spirit of curiosity and inquiry at the heart of the MIT Press. The sale ends November 21st: mitpress.mit.edu/collections/...
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Our holiday flash sale starts today!
Use the code FLASHSALE at The MIT Press Bookstore to enjoy 40% off a selection of books that exemplify the spirit of curiosity and inquiry at the heart of the MIT Press. The sale ends November 21st: mitpress.mit.edu/collections/...
Use the code FLASHSALE at The MIT Press Bookstore to enjoy 40% off a selection of books that exemplify the spirit of curiosity and inquiry at the heart of the MIT Press. The sale ends November 21st: mitpress.mit.edu/collections/...
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I don’t care for the narrator, whom I didn’t have a say on (sorry, man, the pace is wrong), but here’s the first 30 minutes of the BYE BYE I LOVE YOU audiobook
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qCyE...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qCyE...
Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words - Michael Erard
YouTube video by Free Audiobooks
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November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I don’t care for the narrator, whom I didn’t have a say on (sorry, man, the pace is wrong), but here’s the first 30 minutes of the BYE BYE I LOVE YOU audiobook
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qCyE...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qCyE...