Wiktor Rorot

I'm very happy that this paper has just been published in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences! It's an improved version, thanks to the feedback of the anonymous reviewers! Available in open access here: doi.org/10.1007/s406...

The complete version of @phaueis.eurosky.social and my BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is now available. It includes 32 commentaries and our response. Please share #philsci #philsky #cogsci

Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!

Any folks at #CogSci2026 @cogscisociety.bsky.social, in person or online? While I didn't travel to Rio, our poster is now up on the Underline platform: underline.io/events/516/s... Looking forward to reading your comments! #cogsci #languageemergence

New on the Archive: Rorot, Wiktor (2026) Talking Cells: the unity of 'communication' from bacteria to brains. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30461/

Hi all We are starting to post the videos of the "Beyond Computationalism" event on Youtube. You can find them here www.youtube.com/@faridzahnoun1 #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...

We just preprinted the final version of our paper for this year's CogSci Conference: doi.org/10.31234/osf... It's a digital study on how researchers in language emergence think of linguistic structure - and how the existing theoretical accounts fail to catch up to this conceptual practice

We are super happy to announce the fifth edition of our Transatlantic Behavioural Neuroscience School, that will be held Aug 11-22nd in Poland! Join us to learn everything you need to build your behavioural setup with open source tools!

My project Theorizing the Mind has been funded by the National Science Center.

#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience @phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"The Riddle of Organismal Agency" is now available as a paperback version! Edited by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com, Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and Gregory Radick, the volume puts together reflections from #HistSci and #PhilSci on the topic of organismal agency. #HPBio www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...

School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2025 has started today with a talk by @phaueis.bsky.social!

Applications are still open!

We’re waiting for the applications to the School of Ideas in Neuroscience only until Monday!! Come hang out, it’s always fun

Applications are open for another week, do not miss out!!

We’ve just opened the applications for this year’s School of Ideas in Neuroscience which will happen September 8-13 in Warsaw, Poland! We have an exciting lineup of guests and all we need now is some participants, so consider joining us and sharing the invitation :) nenckiopenlab.org/the-school-o...

So exciting!! I wish I could comeeee

Last year we met in the beautiful Dolomites to talk about “naturalistic” behaviour - now the brilliant organizers have put together a preprint which summarizes those discussions. Very much recommended! It definitely changed how I think about behaviour

The open access version of A Drive to Survive is now available to download for free! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... (If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*) - also it has way less typos.

Really cool paper on how to think of actions involved in extended cognition (finally somebody putting philosophy of action to a good use): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exciting mail day! I received two new books with my contributions. In the volume on Conceptual Engineering, edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk, I co-authored a chapter with my PhD student @wikror.bsky.social on predictive understanding, using empirical evidence from scientific writing and peer review. 1/2

A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills. Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!

I realized that there was no story in English that would explain what happened to my institute, so I decided to write up this blog entry, which shows how low-quality AI systems fail to assess research quality: marcinmilkowski.pl/2024/11/20/w...

Many thanks to @mmilkowski.bsky.social and Przemysław Nowakowski for presenting their work in progress in our Digital Methods reading group today! 👉Check out the paper by @wikror.bsky.social and @mmilkowski.bsky.social highlighting the research conducted by Marcin’s group: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

This paper, along with several other fascinating contributions, has just been published in the book “Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues” edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Highly recommended! And you can still view freely the final version of our chapter on Psyarxiv :)

Coming out soon🤩: “The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections”, edited by ROTO members Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and @afabregastejeda.bsky.social together with Gregory Radick. www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio

We’re doing it again, come to Warsaw in July for a week filled with ideas and amazing guests!!

We are super happy to announce our School of Ideas in Neuroscience 2024! Come to Warsaw to discuss the most exciting theories and ideas with neuroscientists & philosophers! We provide beautiful surroundings, great atmosphere and a lot of time to think together! nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-id...

Our postdoc strike at Mount Sinai has now been going for a full week, which means a potential week of no wages. Please donate to our emergency fundraiser or share. Thank you for your support! t.co/Sxqyui9oXZ

We are happy to announce the second Workshop of Ideas in 2024! On April 19-21th in Warsaw, we will discuss the origins of order in behaviour. Is instinct a useful term in modern neuroscience? How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development? nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order

Join us for the hybrid next session of the "Philosophy of Cognitive Science" seminar on November 9th at 10:30 AM (Warsaw, CET). Our guest speaker will be Charles Rathkopf. We will discuss his fascinating paper draft, titled "Does AI vindicate functionalism." 1/2

Join us live at Nencki - or online via Meets - on our first School of Ideas Journal Club! The aim of our journal club is to discuss theoretical and philosophical papers related to neuroscience and cognitive sciences. Contact us to get the link!

We are super happy to announce our first Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! During this event, inspired by the spirit of our School of Ideas, we will discuss naturalistic behaviors: what do we fail to see when we head-fix our mouse? And when it's fine?