@Ericmandelbaum

Buddy Holly on the plane, focused on the next gig

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Joined February 2014
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Our response to commentators for our LoT BBS paper is finally done! philpapers.org/rec/QUITLO-4. We are super lucky and appreciative to have had such insightful, thoughtful commentators. Before highlighting a few of the commentaries I want to clarify: we didn't pick who was accepted!
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🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Baruch College is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in the Jewish Studies program! philjobs.org/job/show/31197 Home dept can be: Phil, Soc, Anthropology, Lit, and Modern Languages. Review of applications begins in a week. Apply now! (fyi: we don't need letters yet).
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My friends' game came out today and it looks amazing. @bfod is an artist and philosopher, just one that happens to be using video games as his medium at the moment. See, e.g., nytimes.com/2025/09/23/arts/… polygon.com/baby-steps-revie… ign.com/articles/baby-steps-…

When You Fall on Your Face, a Philosophical Designer Succeeds (Published 2025)

Bennett Foddy’s breakthrough gave players a hammer to climb a mountain of trash. In his newest video game, every step is an adventure.

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Bennett@bfod23 Sep 2025
Baby Steps, the game I've been working on for 6 years with @gabecuzzillo and @maxiboch, is out on PC and PS5! We've put a feature-length film's worth of stupid cutscenes in this thing, and I hope you like them. But if not, you can skip them.... OR CAN YOU???? RTs appreciated 🙏
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Nicolas Porot@NicolasPorot12 Sep 2025
Our entry (with @Ericmandelbaum ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out. doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.79…

The Language of Thought Hypothesis — OECS

The language of thought hypothesis is a thesis about the structure of mental representations. It is an example of the computational–representational theory of mind, according to which much of...

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AI just works
Aric Toler
@AricToler14 May 2025
I can't stop reading the Grok reply page. It's going schizo and can't stop talking about white genocide in South Africa. xitter.cf/grok/with_replies
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For his birthday my man on the left in the green cooked all the chicken and rice you see here for 450 people @CHIPSbrooklyn. Got his friends to help too
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Seen many soup kitchen lunches but nothing ever like this. It’s going to be the most glorious lunch today for 450 food insecure New Yorkers.
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Dude didn’t want to publicize it or anything. Just wanted to do something ridiculously nice on his birthday. What a mensch. Dude made my day too
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Eric Adams at his most psychedelic may take the top spot
paris martineau@parismartineau26 Sep 2024
never not thinking of eric adams 2011 pea on how to check your kid’s room for contraband
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Hard to pick a favorite Eric Adams clip, but this is hard to beat
Jake Wilkins
@JakeWilkns26 Sep 2024
Will always remember how Eric Adams’ pitch for why the New York City is so great is that any day you wake up, 9/11 could happen
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The incomparable @phschlenker_ac kicked off the new CUNY Cognitive Science season today and it was amazing. Room (and zoom) was packed with smart cool people. Best way to start the year. Come join us! gc.cuny.edu/philosophy/cogni…
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jordan wylie@jowylie26 Sep 2024
Extremely excited to share that I will be joining @Cornell as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Fall 2025! I’m just so thrilled to be joining such a lively department, and the thriving moral psych/philosophy community there.
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Nobody knows anything yet. Don't share anything from someone who says they do. Log off. You'll find out when there's something to find out.
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Great time to remember that misinformation is not a problem!
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I wrote a review of @De_dicto's seminal book on the perception/cognition border for Mind. Tl;dr: you should read the book. But also consider reading the review. Hard to imagine I'll ever have a harder or more meaningful review to write philpapers.org/rec/MANTBB

Eric Mandelbaum, _The Border Between Seeing and Thinking_, by Ned Block - PhilPapers

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Of course it contains criticisms/counterarguments. But I also get a chance to reflect on some broader questions like where the field of perception is going, what it takes to do top flight work in it, and why in god's name anyone bothers to write a book in cognitive science at all
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Nicolas Porot@NicolasPorot8 May 2024
How gullible are people? If you’ve been following Twitter recently (or um…The New Yorker?) you might have seen that lots of people think: not so much! In a forthcoming paper (philarchive.org/rec/PORBDC), @Ericmandelbaum and I argue for the opposite view:

Nicolas Porot & Eric Mandelbaum, Belief: Dumb, Cold, & Cynical - PhilArchive

philarchive.org
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Alon Hafri@AlonHafri17 Apr 2024
A phone in a basket looks very different from a knife in a cup. Would you ever confuse them? In a new paper @ Open Mind, @chazfirestone @michaelfbonner Barbara Landau and I show that you would — with implications for the relation between language & vision. osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jx…
a cartoon version of a phone in a basket and a knife in a cup

ALT a cartoon version of a phone in a basket and a knife in a cup

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👀 nytimes.com/2024/04/08/brief…
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Very happy to announce that I will soon join the MIT linguistics and philosophy department as an assistant professor!
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I'm delighted to announce the 2024 winner of the Stanton prize is…@tobigerstenberg! The @socphilpsych Stanton Prize is awarded to a young scholar who has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research & been active in the SPP. Please join me in congratulating Tobi!
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We are especially lucky that someone like Tobi--who’s research is so influential—is also just a deeply kind, warm, and fun member of our community. I hope you will all join me in celebrating Tobi and all of the other excellent work in cognitive science at this year’s SPP!
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The SPP is lucky to be filled with such interesting researchers. I saw all the nominations and all were deserving of this honor--it was a really stellar field. People are doing inspiring work! It makes the celebration of Tobi all that more impressive
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