Mariel Goddu
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Mariel Goddu
@marielgoddu.bsky.social
Philosophy of learning, evolution, & development, but make it metaphysics.
It‘s not a point of view, it’s a point of *do*. Cognition is like digestion. Plant I > AI. Phil of Mind = Phil of Biology.
https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/mariel-goddu
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
capacities –– (see philpapers.org/archive/KRIC..., if you're interested :)
–– and we're on the lookout for case studies of closely related species with different capacities (developed via different cog dev/learning trajectories) to include in our follow up papers!
philpapers.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Wonderful! Please let me know, if you do! I'm an ex-cog dev psychologist now working in philosophy of mind & cog sci; Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social & I are developing an approach to 'cognitive ontology' in terms of homology. Our framework uses cognitive development to individuate cognitive
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Re: "evo-devo"- Since your participants are lab-reared, do you guys have data on the (behavioral) developmental trajectories of grasping/climbing skills in the two species?

I'm curious whether & how the physiological differences might observably affect learning/cognitive development
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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12. Leviathan
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11. Spooky Monads
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10. How to Do Things with (S)words
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9. Joint-carving
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8. The (Possible) Ghost of the Notorious R.B.M.

(*the [Ruth] Barcan [Marcus] Formula is the "spookiest" formula in modal logic)
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7. Jack-o'-lantern of Theseus
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6. Pumpkumulation of Capital
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5. Aristophanes' Third Gender
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4. Pomunkulus*
(*homunculus pumpkin)
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3. What is it like to be a bat?
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2. The Trolley Pumpkin
("Participants are invited to arrange victims to produce different moral tensions")
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1. Owl of Minerva
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