A new paper out (open access), co-authored with Chris McCarroll. We presented this at the first Eurasian Memory Meeting in Taipei (March 2024). Thanks to many for questions and comments. Nice to see it finally out. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What Memory Teaches: Experiential Knowledge, Imagination, and Accuracy in Remembering - Review of Philosophy and Psychology

This paper clarifies and then indicates a conflict between, on the one hand, influential and longstanding ideas in the epistemology of imagination and, on the other, an emerging view of the accuracy c...

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Brilliant few days hosting the first APSA conference. ~110 presentations and lots of exciting discussion. Grateful to all my colleagues for co-organising and making it happen. Looking forward to future events in the region!

Now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Becko, Nikola, and I began working on this in 2023. One of those ones that starts out aiming to be an Analysis paper but ends up much longer. We're grateful to many people for discussions of this over the last few years! philpapers.org/rec/ANDADF-3

As program committee chair, it's my pleasure to announce the program for the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference. We have a great selection of papers, and I'm very excited to see everyone in Singapore come July! Details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #philsci

Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek are giving a talk entitled "The Foundations of Utilitarianism and its Concept of the Good" at NTU on 14 May 2026. All are welcome! More details can be found on the poster below.

Pleased to announce this is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. I first presented it in 2024, and thanks to many conversations I'm happy with how it turned out. Grateful to the guest editors and reviewers for their input too! philpapers.org/rec/OPEGRL

James Openshaw, Generalised remembering - PhilPapers

Recollections of our personal past are often impressionistic, not so much for lack of detail but for a certain generality of subject matter. If you’ve made a journey many times, you ...

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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.

Memory & Language 2 workshop at the CPM. Always nice to be back in Grenoble. Grateful to the organisers and looking forward to number 3.

Fond memories of last week's Eurasian Memory Meeting in Tokyo! 🗼 A celebration of much of the exciting research happening in philosophy of memory

Great postdoc opportunity for those with research interests in phil of language. (Those with expertise in phil of mind can look out for a similar position coming up at Grenoble.) This will be an exciting project!

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Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!

Happy to announce the Perception, Memory, and Imagination workshop to take place here at NTU! Dates: April 9–10th. Details and registration here: event.ntu.edu.sg/2026-04-09-p...

I am hiring a second postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Foundations of Thermodynamics group! This will be a two-year position. Deadline: March 20, 2026. Please share with anyone who's interested. I'm happy to answer any questions 😄 See PhilJobs ad for more info: philjobs.org/job/show/30726

James Openshaw has been awarded an MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant! The project, 'Referential (dis)continuities in imagination and memory', will run for 3 years from March 2026 to Feb 2029. www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

Supporting Impactful Research: MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant Awarded to Asst. Prof. James Openshaw

Asst. Prof. Openshaw's principal interests are in philosophy of mind/cognitive science.

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It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th www.phomo.org/event-detail...

We're excited to announce a few big updates to PhOMO 1. We have a new website and a logo! This revamp has been in the works for some time so we're happy to finally share it. 2. PhOMO will soon begin taking annual membership fees to defray costs of some activities, protect individuals [...]

Thrilled to announce that Kourken Michaelian’s and my ANR/DFG-funded project ‘SEER: The Semantics of Episodic Representations’ has received funding for 3 years. Stay tuned for project-related workshops and two postdoc positions (recruitment in spring 2026)!

Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️ Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue June 10-12, 2026 Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us! Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.

Final Call: We are hiring for multiple positions (open rank and open area). Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025. See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026

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Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

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Organised by Philosophy, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University

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Happy to share that my recent paper on confabulation is now published as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection in the Asian JP: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Illusions of memory: what referential confabulation can tell us about remembering - Asian Journal of Philosophy

Recent philosophy of memory tends to treat confabulation as a distinctive type of representational error, marked by reference failure, often via direct analogy with the traditional conception of senso...

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We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU! Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338 Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!

The deadline for applications to present at PhOMO's prospective session at the 2026 APA Central Division meeting (Chicago, Feb 18–21) is in 2 weeks. Please spread the word! More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls

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The Philosophy of Memory Organization

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New paper - 'Illusions of memory' - forthcoming in the Asian Journal of Philosophy, as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection. Penultimate draft up here: philpapers.org/rec/OPEIOM

We are looking for early career researchers interested in organising PhOMO's next (4th) online conference, expected to take place in 2027. Please spread the word! To apply, see our website: www.phomo.org/calls

IPM 4.5 starting now!

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🚨Coming up soon on May 22–23: the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)! Amazing lineup of speakers, with each early-career talk followed by commentary. Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

Reference and Remembering, a topical collection in Synthese, is now fully published. Here's our editorial introduction to the 15 contributions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reference and remembering: editorial introduction - Synthese

This topical collection brings together papers that address memory and aboutness. Focal points of the contributions concern relationships between episodic memory, reference (or singular thought), the ...

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The final contribution to the Reference and Remembering collection is now published! A great paper by @kristinaliefke.bsky.social and Markus Werning titled 'Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences': link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences: a non-disjunctivist account including vicarious, oneiric and fictional remembering - Synthese

The paper argues for a non-disjunctivist account of reference in episodic memory. Our account provides a uniform theory of reference for episodic memories that root in veridical and non-veridical expe...

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