DAN SPERBER IN ANTWERP, APRIL 23
Who: Dan Sperber (Paris)
When: April 23, 4pm
Where: Room B.002, Main Campus, Antwerp 2000. No Zoom, only in person!
There will be a reception after the lecture.
What: Ostensive Communication, Relevance Theory, and the Gricean Legacy
As the last stop of my Shanghai - Hangzhou - Wuhan - Beijing mini lecture tour in China, I will give a talk at Peking University tomorrow at 3pm. If you're around, come along!
LAST CALL: Deadline in a week
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
Cover design of my book on Musil (coming out in June/August). Racehorse is Kevin Lande's idea. What do we think? I'm not sure about the color..
I'm hiring again!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is 10 year old!! And what better way to celebrate than to come to Prague in May for the 14th Ernst Mach Workshop on aesthetic attention, where I will be keynoting (with Paloma Atencia Linares). More info: philevents.org/event/show/1...
Aaaand we're back!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
This is the King of Belgium, presenting me with the 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Prize, somewhat loftily also referred to by the press here as the Flemish Nobel Prize.
Awarded every 5 years, the first winner in 1965 was Ilya Prigogine. The latest in 2020 was Johan Wagemans. Quite a company to be in...
LAST CALL: Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia
Length: 3000 words.
Deadline: December 1, 2025.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
Giving a talk in the ever so beautiful Lugano at 4.30 today on the translucent mind. It's also on zoom: www.usi.ch/en/feeds/33307
Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia
Length: 3000 words.
Deadline: December 1, 2025.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
I'm still in shock that I won the FWO excellentieprijs, which they insist on calling the 'Flemish Nobelprize'. It's awarded every 5 years and I am apparently the youngest person ever to win it (at the tender age of 50). I am told that the award will be presented by the King of Belgium himself...
My first publication in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Varieties of aphantasia
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Mind & Language just published a symposium on my 2023 Mental Imagery book. With commentaries by Amy Kind, Christian Scholz and Neil Van Leeuwen. Mostly open access.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680017...
On my way to Toronto for the CPA. Toronto friends, come say hi!
In my humble opinion, The Phoenician Scheme is better than any of his films since Grand Budapest Hotel
Book symposium on my Mental Imagery book in Mind & Language with precis, comments byAmy Kind, Neil Van Leeuwen and Christian Scholz and my response. Much of it open access!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Symposium on my Mental Imagery book on the Brains Blog this week.
Yesterday: my faux-precis.
philosophyofbrains.com/2025/03/31/m...
Today: Blomkvist on aphantasia!
philosophyofbrains.com/2025/04/01/u...
13th Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture
Hanna Pickard
27 March, 4pm
Lange Sint-Annestraat 7, Antwerp
My 'Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction' in Japanese. Nice cover!
This one is wild...
Interview about my recently completed ERC project on the European Commission website (in 6 languages):
cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...
Got 580,000 Euros from the FWO for what I hope to be my next grand project on the Translucent Mind!
The audiobook of my Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction is now only 3.90 USD (until Jan 2).
Literally less than a coffee!!
www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
LAST CALL: Thirteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: Representational format
Length: 3000 words. Single spaced!
Deadline: December 15, 2024.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
More info: bencenanay.com
My 2016 book, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is now also freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
My 2013 book, Between Perception and Action is now freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Any fans of Robert Musil here? I have a 66,000 word book manuscript on the philosophy of Robert Musil that I'd love to get comments on. Email me!
