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05.03.2026 13:28
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sure. more will be coming ;-) Enjoy the cherry blossom season in Japan!
Full programme is updated 🤠
My article in Mind now has an issue number
academic.oup.com/mind/article...
A 500-word summary, with diagrams, is available on the Imperfect Cognitions blog @imperfectcognitions.com
imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/08/rati...
It's behind a paywall. But here is the penultimate version.
philpapers.org/rec/NIEWRP
Just published: a book chapter introducing my new explanation of why rational people hold irrational beliefs.
doi.org/10.4324/9781...
Hosted by the Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) @warwick-mindaction.bsky.social
@philoswarwick.bsky.social and Funded by the Behaviour Spotlight Programme, Humanities Research Centre, WMA and Leverhulme Trust
@leverhulme.ac.uk.
Save the dates (12-13 March 2026) for the 'Self-Awareness and Intersubjectivity' Conference at Warwick, with a fantastic line of speakers: Henrike Moll, Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social, Matthew Boyle, Lucy O’Brien @lucyobrien.bsky.social, Naomi Eilan, Johannes Roessler, and Eliza Little.
A fascinating & damning exposé on Oliver Sacks, author of “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”.
It turns out, by his own admission in his private journals, that much of his work was akin to “fairy tales” — based on “lies”, “falsifications”, & “fabrications”.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
NEW ARTICLE: "Experiences of Derealization: A Naive Realist Account"
I explore how derealization - where one's perceived environment feels unreal - challenges naive realism. A mix of philosophy of mental health and philosophy of perception.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access.
Hosted by The Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) @warwick-mindaction.bsky.social and Funded by Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk.
Save the date (25 March 2026) for a workshop at Warwick on 'When knowledge isn't power', with an amazing line of speakers: Heather Widdows, Fiona MacCallum @fimaccallum.bsky.social, Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social, and Quassim Cassam.
This paper is finally assigned to an issue with Open Access. Hope you like it. 'Akratic Beliefs and Seemings'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 103(4), 994–1010. doi.org/10.1080/0004...
I have news. Wonderful news.
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
My article on Schopenhauer‘s alleged misanthropy is now available in early view - and it’s open access!
A dear dear friend is gone. There are no words.
His family have set up a memorial page to share tributes.
The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.
A new issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research is out, featuring my article on moral concerns about the corruptive effects of imagination in games/VR.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19331592...
You can read a short summary here:
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/imaginativ...
#philtech
Finally announced on the @springernature.com website my new book on #metaphors and their #embodied nature in shaping our #thinking, #feeling, #perception and more.
Very personal note: the book is dedicated to my dear colleague and Riccardo, who died 6 months after we signed the contract ❤️
Talking to a monk is fine, as long as one does not think that their opinion will be representative of the whole of the theology they are part of.
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In this week's Junkyard post, Julia Minarik offers reasons to think that "machine-made images have less content than images created by human hands."
Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Lisa with book
The start of the chapter Le renard et le hibou: confabulation, conspirations et regulation de soi
Back of the book explaining the project on human fables
Super happy to receive my first paper in French, with @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social and @matteomameli.bsky.social, on confabulation and conspiracy theories, in a book entitled “Les fables de l’homme”. Thanks David Simonin for leading the project and translating the paper. #philsky #philpsy
A book cover in pastel blue with cream-coloured skulls and bones. The text says “La zarigüeya de Schrödinger. Cómo viven y entienden la muerte los animales. Susana Monsó” in white lettering, surrounded by Chinese characters in black.
Obsessed with the cover of the Chinese edition of my book!!
Book cover of The centre cannot hold, young woman on a swing, image blurred
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14
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#books
Cover of the issue of Beeton’s where the novella appeared.
During this month in 1887, the public first learned of the investigative exploits of the amateur detective, Sherlock Holmes.
The first memoir of one of his cases, penned by his colleague Dr. John Watson, was published as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual.
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