Ilir Isufi
@ilirisufi.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati working on intersections between philosophy of cognitive science & linguistic relativity. From the most beautiful city in Germany (Giessen).
Another video about one of UC Philosophy’s affiliates: Meet Takunda Matose, Assistant Professor in the Ethics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. See the longer version on YouTube if you want to hear more: youtu.be/3FGX7cn5OnA #Bioethics
One hour interview about my new book Intertwined Creatures. Watch at your own risk. (The main risk is hearing me say dumb shit.) youtu.be/j8rHowYx3HA
Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other | Dr. Anthony Chemero
YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast
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Does culture make emotion? "Each individual is born into a world of words, values, histories and affects, which participate in constituting our subjectivity, our cognitive and normative frame of reference, and our emotional landscape." #philsky #philtwit aeon.co/essays/who-a...
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A new paper from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup (and yours truly) on the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of the framework. Recommended reading for anyone interested in questions of classification and psychopathology! Here’s the journal article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Open access!
“A beautiful book by one of our most inventive and profound thinkers." — @alvanoe.bsky.social, author of Action in Perception "People are STRANGE" by Lambros Malafouris is available in paperback & #OpenAccess editions: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255390...
New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now. cup.columbia.edu/book/intertw...
Intertwined Creatures | Columbia University Press
In one common view, the mind is immaterial, internal, and invisible. From this perspective, the mind is inherently individual and isolated: It is unknowable ... | CUP
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If you think Chomsky gets burned in the Epstein files, wait until you read @tonychemero.bsky.social (2009) on the poverty of stimulus argument.
If you think Chomsky gets burned in the Epstein files, wait until you read @tonychemero.bsky.social (2009) on the poverty of stimulus argument.
Latest papers: Annemarie Kalis, August Christensen & Samuel Nikolai Langelaan argue that to understand the aims of folk psychology and to map out similarities and differences between various practices, we need thick descriptions doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
Here is an opinionated overview in press at Philosophy Compass. Critical 4E cognitive science, as we call this emerging research program, adopts the 4E frameworks and concepts but with a critical lens: questioning its hidden assumptions and leveraging its theoretical resources for social criticism.
Shen-yi Liao & Zoe Brinner, Critical 4E Cognitive Science - PhilPapers
According to 4E cognitive science, our cognitive capacities depend on, and have been transformed by, the environments we have made. Most early works of 4E cognitive science tend to focus on ...
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Interested in studying philosophy of science and public engagement with science? Check out Angela Potochnik’s interview about her work and philosophy at the University of Cincinnati!
Angela Potochnik, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Public Engagement w Science
Meet Angela Potochnik, Professor and Head of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Director of Center for Public Engagement with Science in our video series to get to know our Philosophy Department! #PhilosophyOfScience, #PublicEngagementWithScience, #ScienceCommunication, #CenterForPublicEngagemen
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We're hosting a PhD school in Odense, 7-9 January 2026 on Cognitive processes in social settings (will be in English!). Deadline for registration extended to Friday 19 December at noon. www.conferencemanager.dk/kognitivepro...
Kognitive processer i sociale sammenhænge
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Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...
2026 Conference
Call for Papers: Science and Technology in the Anthropocene April 2 – 3, 2026 A conference about human experience in a world with non-biological intelligent systems and the environmental prob…
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Apply to UC Philosophy's PhD program and check out the next video in our series where professors introduce themselves! Tony Chemero (@tonychemero.bsky.social), Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. Full video on YouTube:
Tony Chemero, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Cincinnati
Tony Chemero is a Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. #4ECognition, #EmbodiedCognition #Enactivism #ExtendedMind #EmbeddedCognition #SituatedCognition #RadicalEnactivism #EcologicalPsychology #dynamicalsystems #cognitivescience #philosophyofmind #PhilosophyOf
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“How science is changing” Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist! @ucpews.bsky.social #philsci buff.ly/uMkmXd8
How Science is Changing | Panel Discussion | Philosophy of Science Association/PEWS Event
An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion. Join scholars from institutions across North America as they discuss the ways in which science is changing in their fi...
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Another video in our series: Helen Meskhidze, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Physics @uofcincy speaking about philosophy of #Physics, #pedagogy, and why you should apply to grad school in Cincinnati! Link to full video: youtu.be/qvtuYnL33RM?...
Apply to Cincinnati's PhD in philosophy for your last chance to become my colleague! 🤠
The PhD program in philosophy at the University of Cincinnati is excited to invite new applications for the 2026-2027 academic year, please share! 🧵 (1/9)
We’re excited for Melinda Fagan from the University of Utah to give her talk “Explanatory particularism in scientific practice”! 📅 Monday 10/27 🕐 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM 📍 Clifton Court Hall 5280 This event is free and open to the public, we hope to see you there!
📢 New preprint (with Christian de Weerd) on AI Consciousness: philarchive.org/rec/DEWCXE #PhilMind
Christian R. de Weerd & Wanja Wiese, Computation + X: A Constraint-based Approach to Investigating Artificial Consciousness - PhilArchive
Can machines ever become conscious? A central debate in this context concerns the question whether consciousness requires biological states. Within this debate, there exists a fundamental dispute betw...
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Another video in our series: Sarah Stitzlein, Professor of Education and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at UC speaking about political philosophy, philosophy of education, John Dewey, pragmatism, and much more! Link to full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIff...
Sarah Stitzlein, Professor of Education and Affiliate Prof. of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati
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Latest papers: Anna Drożdżowicz and J.P. Grodniewicz illustrate how epistemic injustice can arise in psychotherapeutic encounters, and explain how this can threaten one’s ability to achieve self-understanding through psychotherapy in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
The Philosophy of Science Association makes experts on various topics available for conversation with graduate students anywhere with its "Office Hour" program. Other associations should consider doing this.
The PSA’s “Office Hour” Returns - Daily Nous
The Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) is continuing its excellent expert "office hour" series this semester---a program other academic associations should consider adopting. "The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting than is provided by our
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The “Overdiagnosis” Confusion “Overdiagnosis” is a blunt verdict offering blunt solutions www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-overdi...
The “Overdiagnosis” Confusion
“Overdiagnosis” is a blunt verdict offering blunt solutions
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Thank you to @ilirisufi.bsky.social for this mindful and generous review of our edited volume, Language as an Ecological Phenomenon! ❤️
1/3 Just published my review of Language as an Ecological Phenomenon. 🌿 The volume redefines ecolinguistics by emphasizing “languaging”—the dynamic, social process of creating meaning—instead of abstract theories of language: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Absolutely thrilled to see @samfellowes.bsky.social review my paper on self-diagnosis! So excited and grateful for the kind feedback. Made my day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAl...
Self-Diagnosis Reviewing the Literature - Part 3
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Part three of my attempt to review every paper published on self-diagnosis in psychiatry. Another four papers reviewed: #psychiatry #selfdiagnosis #psychology #STS #HPS
Watch this interview with Muhammad U. Faruque about his work on the intersections of Islamic and Western philosophy, cosmopolitanism, the self, and the environment at the University of Cincinnati. Link to full video: youtu.be/YW1L5euKz3Q #Self #Philosophy #EasternPhilosophy #Dialogue #Environment
Best way to avoid distresing news?? Turn off the portal, buckle up with an awesome book, freshly off the press, about what it means to live with mental distress and how to best to respond to it to lead a flourishing life; and learn that these can all be proper objects of scientific inquiry!
Interested in the discussion around medical vs. neurodiversity models? Check out PhD Student Ilir Isufi’s (@ilirisufi.bsky.social) brief open peer commentary in AJOB Neuroscience: www.tandfonline.com/... #philsky