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The Knowledge in Crisis Marathon Relay Team did the Vienna Marathon in 3 hours 30 minutes! Kati Farkas, Jonathan Kuntzen, Camilo Martinez and Matt Dougherty @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social

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Challenging Stereotypes About Young People Who Hear Voices Recent work on clinical communication has highlighted the possibility that vulnerable young people may experience epistemic injustice and have their sense of agency undermined in encounters with mental healthcare providers. In particular, five dimensions...

What are the harmful stereotypes associated with hearing voices? In this open-access chapter, members of the Voice Collective, Fiona Malpass, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies and I explore this issue using an Aesop-style fable link.springer.com/ch... #philsky #EpistemicInjustice

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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...

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Mental Disorders The debate on the criteria for mental disorder has powerfully intersected with discussions about the status of psychiatry as a science and its role as a legitimate medical field. In this entry, we rev...

I contributed an entry on mental disorders to this new encyclopedia with @matthewbroome.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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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/...

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Perspectival Realism Abstract. What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historic

Reading this remarkable book by @michelamassimi.bsky.social Only just realising what a big deal it is: novel and profoundly erudite accounts of perspective, phenomena, models... All 👌 Plus the style manages to balance gutsy and respectful to predecessors (something I often mess up). Go read it

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Yellow and green book on a desk next to a houseplant.

Yellow and green book on a desk next to a houseplant.

Very happy to say that Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, written by @suereviews.bsky.social and myself, is out now! It was a lot of fun trying to condense neurodiversity theory, research, practice, and politics into a single, brief book. Available in all the usual places!

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Last night’s brilliant award ceremony for @thebpa.bsky.social honoured Leonie Smith, @jonbebb.bsky.social and James Chamberlain, all for wonderful work with @philosophyinprison.bsky.social Congratulations all!!!!! #philosophymatters

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📢 Our 2026 #Philosophy #grant programmes are now open!

You can apply for #funding now, for your event, education programme or postgraduate study.

Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/philosophy-f...

#bursaries #studentships #postgraduate #philosophymatters

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Cover of Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus, my attempt to say something about Timaeus’ account of perception

Cover of Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus, my attempt to say something about Timaeus’ account of perception

Discovered by Amazon recommending my own books as something I might like to purchase, Cosmos and Perception now in paperback

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A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

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The Practical Self, and Practical Experience. Critical Notice of The Practical Self, by Anil Gomes. | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | Cambridge Core The Practical Self, and Practical Experience. Critical Notice of The Practical Self, by Anil Gomes.

Delighted to have this out - a response to Anil's wonderful book
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Latest papers: Craig French develops a new problem for naive realism: the problem of derealization in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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SCHUBERT - Impromptu n°3 (Horowitz)
SCHUBERT - Impromptu n°3 (Horowitz) YouTube video by Pianhoro

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So beautiful. And if you listen carefully a few minutes in you can hear the church bells ringing in the background.

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Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think

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Bach: Partita for keyboard No. 2 | Martha Argerich, piano
Bach: Partita for keyboard No. 2 | Martha Argerich, piano YouTube video by DW Classical Music

My classical music favourites CCXXV. --

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Bach: Partita for keyboard No. 2, played by Martha Argerich.

(So excited that we'll finally see her live on February 16th here in Vienna!)

#music #classicalmusic

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Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci

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#Academia in the age of #GenAI

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How we do things with concepts – review of Nicholas Shea’s Concepts at the Interface Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

As a little Christmas present, I am sharing my review Nick Shea's Concepts at the Interface www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
First 50 should be free/open access, if I understand it correctly. #phiksky

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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.

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The Disunity of Disease | Philosophy of Medicine

my paper "The Disunity of Disease" is now published in Philosophy of Medicine
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Oooh right - those were the days!!! Looking forward to reading the final version!

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Explaining Intentionality: replies to Critics Published in Australasian Philosophical Review (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2024)

The paper is followed by my responses to 11 critics in the same journal, 'Explaining Intentionality: replies to critics'
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On the Explanation of Intentionality It is a widespread assumption in contemporary philosophy of mind that a naturalistic explanation of intentionality must answer to what I will call the ‘question of aboutness’: what makes it the cas...

My paper 'On the Explanation of Intentionality' has just been published in the Australasian Philosophical Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Diversity Reading List Project is celebrating its 10-year anniversary!

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High quality texts in philosophy by authors from under-represented groups.

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Web: diversityreadinglist.org.

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Department of Philosophy at Warwick celebrates its 60th anniversary in Senate House @uolpress.bsky.social with speeches on why #philosophymatters by Qassim Cassam, Heather Widdows, @guylongworth.bsky.social and @mmmccabe.bsky.social

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RESEARCH!

Stephen Barker's book 'The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe How Motion is the Essence of Time and Physical Reality' is out soon with @Routledge_Phil.

#philosophy #time #motion #metaphysics #physics

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flyer that says "A Zoom Chat to Celebrate the Trailblazing Philosophical Artwork of Helen De Cruz. Creative Philosophy in Community. Tuesday, 24th June 11am-12.20 pm CDT. Everybody welcome. No background required. www.georgigardiner.com/helen

flyer that says "A Zoom Chat to Celebrate the Trailblazing Philosophical Artwork of Helen De Cruz. Creative Philosophy in Community. Tuesday, 24th June 11am-12.20 pm CDT. Everybody welcome. No background required. www.georgigardiner.com/helen

Georgi Gardiner is hosting an online event to celebrate the philosophical art of @helendecruz.net next Tuesday, 6/24, at 11 a.m. CT. All are welcome! Details at www.georgigardiner.com/helen.

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