Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds Abstract. What enables me to know that others exist? Nathalie Duddington offers two distinctive, and underexplored, insights into the question. She focuses

Horrah - this is out. Thanks @aristotsoc.bsky.social for asking me to write it.

Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

Delusion In this brief entry, we offer an overview of classic and contemporary debates surrounding clinical delusions in philosophy and psychology. Researchers disagree about the nature of delusional states an...

I contributed an entry on delusion to this new encyclopaedia with @emas-b.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

All that supremacist stuff about autistics being inherently more honest than everyone else etc. was always going to end here.

£1.2M UKRI grant supports groundbreaking study into the psychology of belief

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award

Great honour to be awarded the very first prize for Public Communication of Philosophy by the British Philosophical Association! #philosophymatters #philsky

Pleasing news: Philosophy at Warwick doing well in QS rankings: warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

Looking forward to this ”When knowledge isn’t power” workshop Wednesday at @philoswarwick.bsky.social !

It is taking place during #BritishPhilosophyFortnight – for more information about events and why #PhilosophyMatters see link in next post. ⤵️

#PhilosophyMatters

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
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Rational People's Irrational Beliefs A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

A 500-word summary, with diagrams, is available on the Imperfect Cognitions blog @imperfectcognitions.com

imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/08/rati...

Chenwei Nie, Why Rational People Obstinately Hold onto Irrational Beliefs: A New Approach - PhilPapers Why does a normal person sometimes obstinately hold onto a belief against independent evidence? Existing approaches often assume that non-evidential factors make the person irrational—either by distor...

It's behind a paywall. But here is the penultimate version.

philpapers.org/rec/NIEWRP

Why rational people obstinately hold onto irrational beliefs | 12 | A Why does a normal person sometimes obstinately hold onto a belief against independent evidence? Existing approaches often assume that non-evidential factors

Just published: a book chapter introducing my new explanation of why rational people hold irrational beliefs.

doi.org/10.4324/9781...

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Self-Awareness and Intersubjectivity Everyone is invited to a two-day interdisciplinary conference on 'Self-Awareness and Intersubjectivity' in Philosophy Fortnight, with a fantastic line of speakers. Date: 12 March 2026, 1pm - Late aft...

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.

Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

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...

Experiences of derealization A naive realist account A major symptom of “Derealization/Depersonalization Disorder” is derealization. People who experience derealization report a sense of unreality when it comes to their surroundings, yet they still p...

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.

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Open access.

Hosted by The Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) @warwick-mindaction.bsky.social and Funded by Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk.

WMA Workshop: 'When knowledge isn't power'. This is a warm invitation to a mini-workshop on 'When knowledge isn't power' in Philosophy Fortnight. Hosted by The Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) and Funded by Leverhulme Trust. Organi...

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...

Clayton Littlejohn, Disinformation is for Degrading the Value of Information, not Confirming Falsehoods - PhilPapers According to a recent account of disinformation, disinformation is content that “generates ignorance” (Simion 2024a; 2024b). The view improves upon previous accounts that focused upon the potential fo...

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

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

How Not to Hate Humanity: Schopenhauer's Response to Misanthropy Abstract. Schopenhauer has a longstanding reputation for misanthropy. The reputation is warranted, but it is also potentially misleading. Privately, Schope

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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