Check out my piece on the Brahan Seer figure - from its roots in the Gaelic oral tradition all the way to a 21st century cultural icon. Expect folklore, prophecy, tragedy, and a bit of belly dancing.

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Alexander Mackenzie’s The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877), a lively account of the life and predictions of the Scottish Nostradamus: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/brahan-seer/

Applications are now open for our 2026 CIFAR Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Winter School, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪. Attendance is competitive & fully funded thx to generous support from @templetonworld.bsky.social. Apply by June 10: cifar.ca/next-generat...

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Follow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […]

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'Philosophers of Many Minds': A selection of our interviews with philosophers!! 🎙️🎙️ Now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6UZ...

Philosophers of Many Minds

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It turns out my piece made it all the way to the Top 10 of 2025, despite an admittedly late start to the game in... November. You should follow the crowd on this one and read it!

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Top 10 of this year's most read pieces — no.8: our post gathering, in hi-res, a selection of 74 key works by the era-defining Aubrey Beardsley: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... (Full Top 10 here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12...)

A look back out our five most popular episodes of 2025!! 🎉🎉 (in order of release)

Tickled to be acknowledged with an 'honourable' mention by the 2025 Monochrome Awards in photography.

Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

“The sphere is the most uniform of solid bodies since every point on its surface is equidistant from its centre. Because of this, and because of its ability to revolve on an axis without straying from...

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For the finale of season 7, we have a new audio essay out @manymindspod.bsky.social by @kensycoop.bsky.social! It's an exploration of names in the animal kingdom - what they are, who uses them, and why. In case you get hooked, we've put together a separate playlist of all our essays so far. Enjoy!

Many MInds – Complete Audio Essays

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American Canto...-nese man invites philosophers to apply to become the next great public intellectual. $1500, full room and board, and a three day workshop in essay writing, trade book proposal selling, and podcast production, in Tarrytown NY June 2026. marcsandersfoundation.org/philosophy-i...

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Perverse, grotesque, sensuous, inimitable — our latest post gathers, in high resolution, a selection of 74 key works by the era-defining English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872–98): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... And prints in our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…

Check out my guide to the visual universe of Aubrey Beardsley - the master of fin-de-siècle sensibility.

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley

Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.

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Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems | 9 | Neurocognitive Foundations

Cognitive scientists ascribe inferential processes to (neuro)cognitive systems to explain many of their capacities. Since these ascriptions have different

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Consider reading my new piece on the history and science of the nasogenital cure! Incidentally, that's not exactly what the theory was and not quite what the episode reveals. Bizarre tales sound rather less bizarre in context - possibly, our own tales in our own context, too.

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One woman’s nose and two men’s hubris and a bizarre tale of 19th century science gone wrong. This nasogenital theory tried to link nasal shape to sexual health and reveals how medicine can be shaped more by bias than fact buff.ly/TwZjyJ6

On train home after Method & Convergence 2025. I got so much food for my work! Slide is from @laukas.bsky.social nice ”PR talk” on synthetic phil… 🔥

Consider reading this funky piece of mine from 2018! Featuring cameos from Ben Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Stephen Jay Gould.

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Died #onthisday in 1815, Franz Mesmer, controversial proponent of "animal magnetism". More in our essay "Mesmerising Science" on how a craze for animal magnetism sessions in 18th-century Paris led to the modern clinical trial we know + love today: buff.ly/3330fkd #otd

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

A new project got a shout-out at the Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 - see the shot here.

Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

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Thanks for a great 2024, friends! We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were... (in chronological order) 🧵

My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!

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Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy

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A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills. Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!

Chuffed to be 'honourably mentioned' at the ND Photography Awards this year - in case anyone else might enjoy seeing the shot, here it is.

People: Portrait - honorable mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

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A (provocative) new chapter. If "cognition all the way down" holds up when things go right with capacities like perception, learning, memory, etc., it should also apply when things go awry. What could taking the idea of scale-free psychiatry seriously teach us about our own cognitive (dys)function?

Delusion and inference | 38 | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of

Delusions are commonly defined as beliefs based on incorrect inference. But the term ‘inference’ is used in different fields with a lot of variation, which has

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From Borch-Jacobsen, M. (2021). Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives. Reaktion Books.

From Shorter, E. (1992). From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. The Free Press.

New episode!! 📣📣 An essay by our Assistant Producer, @laukas.bsky.social. We often hear about placebo treatments as controls—points of comparison for "real" treatments. But placebos are much more than that. Is it time we harnessed their power? Listen: disi.org/rehabilitati...

Rehabilitating placebo - Many Minds podcast

Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.

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From Few, M. (2005). Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory 52(4), pp. 673–687.

From Carnwath, T., Smith, I. (2002). The Heroin Century. Routledge.

From Wuthnow, R. (2017). American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability. Princeton University Press.

From Weatherford, J. (2010). The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire. Crown Publishers.