Some photos from last week's Perception, Memory, Imagination workshop here at NTU, co-organised with @whcsung.bsky.social - we're grateful to everyone who presented, participated, and helped out for making it a successful event! Thanks also to CoHASS for the funding to make it happen.

Memory & Language 2 workshop at the CPM. Always nice to be back in Grenoble. Grateful to the organisers and looking forward to number 3.

Fond memories of last week's Eurasian Memory Meeting in Tokyo! 🗼 A celebration of much of the exciting research happening in philosophy of memory

Great postdoc opportunity for those with research interests in phil of language. (Those with expertise in phil of mind can look out for a similar position coming up at Grenoble.) This will be an exciting project!

Cheers, Sérgio - I will! Hope to cross paths again soon!

Happy to announce the Perception, Memory, and Imagination workshop to take place here at NTU! Dates: April 9–10th. Details and registration here: event.ntu.edu.sg/2026-04-09-p...

I am hiring a second postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Foundations of Thermodynamics group! This will be a two-year position. Deadline: March 20, 2026. Please share with anyone who's interested. I'm happy to answer any questions 😄

See PhilJobs ad for more info: philjobs.org/job/show/30726

Supporting Impactful Research: MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant Awarded to Asst. Prof. James Openshaw Asst. Prof. Openshaw's principal interests are in philosophy of mind/cognitive science.

James Openshaw has been awarded an MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant! The project, 'Referential (dis)continuities in imagination and memory', will run for 3 years from March 2026 to Feb 2029.
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It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th

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We're excited to announce a few big updates to PhOMO

1. We have a new website and a logo! This revamp has been in the works for some time so we're happy to finally share it.

2. PhOMO will soon begin taking annual membership fees to defray costs of some activities, protect individuals [...]

Thrilled to announce that Kourken Michaelian’s and my ANR/DFG-funded project ‘SEER: The Semantics of Episodic Representations’ has received funding for 3 years. Stay tuned for project-related workshops and two postdoc positions (recruitment in spring 2026)!

Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026

Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!

Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.

Final Call: We are hiring for multiple positions (open rank and open area).

Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025.

See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Grief Utterances Organised by Philosophy, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University

Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

A free version is available here: rdcu.be/exUiD

Thanks again to the guest editors - and also to many who heard me present this in Munich, Shanghai, Taipei, Cardiff, and Birmingham.

Illusions of memory: what referential confabulation can tell us about remembering - Asian Journal of Philosophy Recent philosophy of memory tends to treat confabulation as a distinctive type of representational error, marked by reference failure, often via direct analogy with the traditional conception of senso...

Happy to share that my recent paper on confabulation is now published as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection in the Asian JP:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU!

Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!

PhOMO - Calls The Philosophy of Memory Organization

The deadline for applications to present at PhOMO's prospective session at the 2026 APA Central Division meeting (Chicago, Feb 18–21) is in 2 weeks. Please spread the word!

More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls

I'm very grateful to the brilliant guest editors, @linyingtung.bsky.social, Kirk Michaelian, Shin Sakuragi, Chris McCarroll, and André Sant'Anna!

New paper - 'Illusions of memory' - forthcoming in the Asian Journal of Philosophy, as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection. Penultimate draft up here:
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We are looking for early career researchers interested in organising PhOMO's next (4th) online conference, expected to take place in 2027. Please spread the word! To apply, see our website: www.phomo.org/calls

IPM 4.5 starting now!

PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

Thanks for contributing such a cool paper!

Most of all, thanks to the contributors for their excellent papers, clearly showing, I think, that this is a pressing and exciting area of research. I hope the papers prompt lots of further work!

This was very much a joint effort, so huge thanks to co-editors Kirk and Denis for their collaboration. We began discussing this in 2020-21, and held a conference on the topic in 2022. Great to see it finally out. Thanks as well to all who kindly reviewed.

Reference and remembering: editorial introduction - Synthese This topical collection brings together papers that address memory and aboutness. Focal points of the contributions concern relationships between episodic memory, reference (or singular thought), the ...

Reference and Remembering, a topical collection in Synthese, is now fully published. Here's our editorial introduction to the 15 contributions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences: a non-disjunctivist account including vicarious, oneiric and fictional remembering - Synthese The paper argues for a non-disjunctivist account of reference in episodic memory. Our account provides a uniform theory of reference for episodic memories that root in veridical and non-veridical expe...

The final contribution to the Reference and Remembering collection is now published! A great paper by @kristinaliefke.bsky.social and Markus Werning titled 'Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences': link.springer.com/article/10.1...