This mammoth volume on introspection edited by Anna Giustina was published this month. share.google/z24yL1IKHIKG... Very honoured to have contributed a chapter on 'Introspection and Revelation' in the Epistemology of Introspection section share.google/qGgSVuq79vDe...

The Routledge Handbook of Introspection

Introspection is fundamental and seemingly indispensable to understanding the conscious human mind. It is essential both to acquire and refine our knowledge of ourselves and to develop a philosophical...

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There is a "Melbourne Philosophy of Mind Workshop" on next week organised by Michelle Liu @michelleybliu.bsky.social with talks by Michelle, Tim Bayne, Margot Strohminger, and myself. Should be fun, full details at the philevents link. #philsky philevents.org/event/show/1...

I have a new paper out on 'Polysemy and puzzles about pain', building on my previous work. The paper serves to illustrate that philosophical debates often go wrong because they ignore the fact that the terms under discussion are polysemous. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Polysemy and puzzles about pain

Recent philosophical literature on pain has seen much discussion of puzzles which directly relate to how we ordinarily talk and think about pain. Using tools from theoretical and experimental lingu...

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I have a new paper out, arguing for the importance of mental imagery for theorising harmful language (e.g. language containing misinformation, genetics, metaphors). I also suggest ways to counter the influence of the harmful imagery that language generates. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Can physical science explain consciousness? @michelleybliu.bsky.social explains the best argument for the conclusion "no". www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4lx...

The Best Argument Against Physicalism

YouTube video by Philip Goff Philosophy

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Some photos from last week's Perception, Memory, Imagination workshop here at NTU, co-organised with @whcsung.bsky.social - we're grateful to everyone who presented, participated, and helped out for making it a successful event! Thanks also to CoHASS for the funding to make it happen.

I have been in London on a British Academy Visiting Fellowship this semester. My visit will conclude with this event I am organising with Robyn Carston. Come and say hi if you are in London this Thursday. @britishacademy.bsky.social

My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

ASPP 2025 Melbourne

Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025

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I'm in London till the end of this year and will be hosting this workshop with Robyn Carston in December. Come and say hi! Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives - PhilEvents share.google/dYgWGjAebsH9...

From July till December this year, I will be taking up a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to work on word meaning and philosophical applications. @britishacademy.bsky.social I'm looking forward to living in London and reconnecting with colleagues in the UK and Europe!

Philosophy Smash with Henry is on Daily Nous! dailynous.com/2025/05/27/n... @saperep4c.bsky.social @ukri.org

New Philosophy Outreach Program: Philosophy Smash - Daily Nous

A philosopher at the University of Birmingham, Henry Taylor, has a new philosophy outreach program. Philosophy Smash with Henry! aims to introduce children to philosophical questions. In the following...

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"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide. zeteo.com/subscribe

A wonderful piece in the naturalistic section of philosophy compass, which I edit.

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My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

Listen to @michelleybliu.bsky.social's interview before, after, or while you read her new article on polysemy and philosophy.

Michelle Liu@michelleybliu.bsky.social · last yr.

My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

Polysemy and Philosophy

Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polys....

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This month, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @michelleybliu.bsky.social. They discuss representing music in visual forms, whether arguments have aesthetic properties, and the role of mental imagery in poetry and philosophy. Follow the show and listen on your favourite podcast platform!

Frame and relevance problems from the perspective of predictive processing - new paper led by @monash-m3cs.bsky.social's Tom Darling #philsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Solving the relevance problem with predictive processing

The frame or relevance problem is a classic problem in cognitive science and philosophy. We attempt to resolve this problem by appealing to predictive processing, a growing theory of cognition. As ...

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Excellent paper on dehumanization by my wonderful colleague Suzy Killmister.

Philosophers' Imprint@philimprint.bsky.social · 3y ago

Published today in Philosophers' Imprint Suzy Killmister, "A Metaphysics of Dehumanization" journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl... #philsky

The Western media will never be forgiven for their role in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-wester...

The Western media: drenched in Palestinian blood

You are more likely to read the truth about Israel's crimes in an Israeli newspaper than you are in a Western media outlet.

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Excellent paper on chatbots and assertion by my colleagues Iwan Williams and Tim Bayne

Iwan Williams@iwan-williams.bsky.social · 2y ago

My paper with Tim Bayne "Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion" is now up at Inquiry. Our question: can large language model powered chatbots make assertions (can they state, claim or affirm things)? [1/5] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An excellent crammer on Dan Dennett's philosophy, written by Tim Bayne in a lucid, lively style to rival Dennett's own. "What needs to go is not so much folk psychology... but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it." aeon.co/essays/as-re...

‘As real as it ever gets’: Dennett’s conception of the mind | Aeon Essays

Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought

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BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

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My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Knowing What It Is Like

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like

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Heading to Shanghai this week for my first philosophy conference in China. Looking forward to the Shanghai-Grenoble Philosophy of Memory Workshop 2 phil-mem.org/events/2024-...

Monash philosophy departmental workshop next week (12th & 13th), featuring many of my wonderful colleagues philevents.org/event/show/1.... If you are in Melbourne, come along.

Monash Philosophy Departmental Workshop

This is an in-person event only  Location: S109 Menzies Building, Clayton  Day 1, November 12th 10:30-11:30 Jenny Windt: A botanical metaphor for our wandering minds 11:30-12:30 Gene Flenady...

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