Frances Egan
@francesegan.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Rutgers University; Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science. Canadian now living in south Texas
Happy that my book, Deflating Mental Representation, has been long-listed for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Nayef Al-Rodhan international prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/announc...
Announcing the 2026 Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize Longlist - Royal Institute of Philosophy
The longlist for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2026 has been announced. Find out more about the longlisted titles.
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Coming up on Monday #philsci
Frances Egan@francesegan.bsky.social · 3mo agoOnline book launch for Ken Aizawa's kenaizawa.bsky.social excellent new book May 18, 2026 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT. Commentaries by Uljana Feest, Gualtiero Piccinini, and Samuel Schindler. For the zoom link email ken.aizawa@gmail.com The book is available open access from CUP:
Online book launch for Ken Aizawa's kenaizawa.bsky.social excellent new book May 18, 2026 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT. Commentaries by Uljana Feest, Gualtiero Piccinini, and Samuel Schindler. For the zoom link email ken.aizawa@gmail.com The book is available open access from CUP:
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
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First review of Ken Aizawa's @kenaizawa.bsky.social excellent new book link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A science-first theory of confirmation - Metascience
Metascience -
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link.springer.com/article/10.1... First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation. #hps #philsci
A science-first theory of confirmation - Metascience
Metascience -
link.springer.com
On a morning walk at the ranch and wondering how close the oryx will let me get before their prey-animal flight-response kicks in. About 100 yards. (I'm zooming in, so it looks closer.) Unless they have just emerged from the trusty pick-up bearing alfalfa those 2-legged animals are very scary.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
"The president dropped his demand for a $200 million payment from Harvard, lowering the bar for a potential deal." The New York Times calling extortion a "deal."
Canada's PM Mark Carney at Davos: “The middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, we’re are on the menu."
The Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation this week. Comments by Mazviita Chirimuuta, Caitlin Mace & Adina Roskies, and Oron Shagrir. philosophyofbrains.com/2026/01/12/f...
Frankie Egan: Brains Blog precis of Deflating Mental Representation — The Brains Blog
Brains Blog precis of Deflating Mental Representation In the book I propose what I call a deflationary account of mental representation, characterized by three claims: (1…
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So... if the head of a country is acting illegally, other countries can go in and physically remove him and try him for his crimes in their own country? Tell me more...
my comments on Michael Kirchhoff's book *The Idealized Mind*, on the Brains Blog philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/03/s...
Frances Egan: Some Physical Systems (Literally) Compute — The Brains Blog
Some Physical Systems (Literally) ComputeFrances Egan Rutgers University In his ambitious new book, Michael Kirchhoff argues that computational models cannot be literally true …
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Ken Aizawa's excellent new book is now available, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
cambridge.org
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
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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Excellent paper by @zoedrayson.bsky.social... highly recommend! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What motivates mental fictionalism?
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...
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🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What motivates mental fictionalism?
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...
tandfonline.com
My brother, Sean Egan , and nephew Francis, opening the Toronto Stock Exchange this morning, on Global Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Recognizing Sean's work on breast cancer.
Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...
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