I am delighted to share that the thematic collection of Topoi that I edited with the brilliant Emily Hughes is now complete. Read 20 excellent articles, plus my editorial introduction, on the “Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration.” #philsky link.springer.com/collections/...

What is the relationship between narrative, imagination, and well-being? We'll explore this question in an interdisciplinary workshop (in-person only) at the Macquarie University Minds and Intelligences Research Centre on 25 September 2026. Join if you like! 1/2 events.humanitix.com/workshop-nar...

The Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences titled "Grief in the Digital Age," edited by @reginafabry.bsky.social and @marilynstendera.bsky.social, has now been published in full. 1/2 #philsky link.springer.com/journal/1109...

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is an international and interdisciplinary journal that published papers that address the philosophical and scientific ...

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DiverseGrief @diverse-grief.bsky.social is now live! Through this account, the wonderful @marilynstendera.bsky.social and I will share new insights into the diversity and variability of grief. Please follow, share, and engage! #philsky

I'm thrilled to announce that the Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on 'Grief and the Digital Age' that the wonderful @reginafabry.bsky.social and I have co-edited is now complete! You can find the 12 papers and our editorial intro here: link.springer.com/collections/...

2 more weeks to go! Please share this CfA with interested and suitable candidates (if you have not already done so)! #philsky

Regina Fabry@reginafabry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Applications are still open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University Sydney until 30 April 2026. #philsky www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Applications are still open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University Sydney until 30 April 2026. #philsky www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

I am delighted to share Markus Pantsar's (@markuspantsar.bsky.social) and my new contribution to the philosophy of AI. Out now in Synthese (Open Access)! #philsky 1/3 doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Why mental metaphors do not help us understand chatbot mistakes - Synthese

Synthese - The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their...

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A field-shaping article by the brilliant @sconinxphil.bsky.social and @loehrgui.bsky.social. Highly recommended! #philsky

Sabrina Coninx@sconinxphil.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 My colleague Guido Löhr and I are excited that our paper 'Rethinking Disruptive Technologies: Benefits, Harms, and Injustices of Human Niche Construction' has been published in 'Philosophy & Technology' - Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

This paper by @liao.shen-yi.org and Zoe Brinner is such a helpful, clear primer on the central concepts in 4E cognitive science! Use it as your crib sheet on concepts like affordances, scaffolding, or niche construction + a fantastic list of recent work on hostile environments!

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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Für @zeitonline.bsky.social habe ich einen Essay geschrieben über das, was wir gerade Backlash nennen und frage mich, ob es diesen wirklich gibt oder ob wir nicht seit langem etwas vor allem unter Aspekten der Gerechtigkeit diskutieren, obwohl es in Wirklichkeit essenziell für unsere Demokratie ist.

Gesellschaftlicher Backlash: Wovor wir Frauen wirklich Angst haben sollten

Was viele seit Beginn der Kanzlerschaft von Friedrich Merz als Backlash bezeichnen, ist gar keiner: Wir sind beim Feminismus nur nicht weit genug vorangekommen.

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You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...

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Macquarie University, Sydney – 11th and 12th of December 2025

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“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone” www.science.org/content/arti...

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow

Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

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Reminder that we are seeking submissions to a rad special issue! Send us your coolest papers that apply a feminist lens to the mind and to cognitive science! Deadline is January 15. #philsky hypatiaphilosophy.org/uncategorize...

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

How do chatbots based on Large Language Models impact our self-narrative practices? We will explore this question in a workshop titled "Self-Narration in the Age of Conversational Chatbots." The workshop will take place at Macquarie University on 21 November 2025. sites.google.com/view/human-c...

Human-Chatbot Self-Narration

21 November 2025 Michael Kirby Building 330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally's Walk (in-person only) Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University Organiser: Dr Regina Fabry Contact: regina.fabry@mq.edu.au

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Highly recommended!

Markus Pantsar@markuspantsar.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My book "Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic" is now available as a paperback -- and for a much cheaper price! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Academia still hates women. But we resist! Solidarity with all women in academia who face everyday sexism, erasure, harassment etc. and with all who were pushed out 💔❤️

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Some of the brightest lights I’ve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the “lucky” ones—in that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.

Ich bin einer der vielen lebenden Beweise dafür, dass man am Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer Abitur machen und an der Uni Mainz studieren, gar promovieren kann, ohne Queer-Feindlichkeit das Wort zu reden und rechte Hetze mit linkem Qualitätsjournalismus gleichzusetzen. 1/2

@hibiscusinsular.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Was lehren das Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer und die @unimainz.bsky.social eigentlich, wenn da Leute herauskommen, die die @taz.de nicht von NIUS unterscheiden können?

I am very happy so share that my most recent article on self-narration titled "Counter Self-Narration: A Creative-Imaginative Practice of Resistance" just got published in Topoi (Open Access). doi.org/10.1007/s112... #philsky 1/3

Counter Self-Narration: A Creative-Imaginative Practice of Resistance - Topoi

Topoi - Self-narration, many philosophers assume, is an important practice for self-understanding and meaning-making. However, self-narration does not occur in an ideologically neutral space, but...

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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

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Highly recommended: the most recent article by my brilliant friend, collaborator, and co-editor @marilynstendera.bsky.social about the impact of griefbots on the phenomenal experience of time in grief.

Marilyn Stendera@marilynstendera.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm pleased to share my latest paper, which has just been published (Open Access) in Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences. It explores how 'griefbots' - AI chatbots trained to impersonate the dead - might impact the temporal phenomenology of grief.

✨ PhD position available ✨ @loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇 Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Heewon Seo's contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration" has just been published (Open Access). Highly recommended! #philsky

Between De-narrativization and Story-Selling: From the Paradoxes of Self-narration to the Concept of Self-narrative Resistance - Topoi

Building on Hannah Arendt’s insights, storytelling is presented not merely as a literary form, but as a fundamental mode of human existence and meaning-making. However, as Yuval Harari and Byung-Chul ...

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Regina Fabry@reginafabry.bsky.social · last yr.

The first contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration," which I edit with the always brilliant Emily Joy Hughes, has just been published. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky 1/2

The first contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration," which I edit with the always brilliant Emily Joy Hughes, has just been published. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky 1/2

Now out Open Access: My new article on human-deathbot interactions! doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/3

The disruption of grief in the technological niche: The case of deathbots - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Recently, philosophical research on grief and the impact of technological resources on its structure and quality has gained momentum. Deathbots, chatbots based on generative Large Language Models that...

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When I started to work on the phenomenology and epistemology of grief a few years ago, I couldn't help but notice that a lot of philosophers of grief frequently cite grief memoirs. 1/2

If you could hold on to just a single memory, just one episode from your personal past, what would it be? Today at the Memory Palace, Chris McCarroll investigates this exciting question about personal memory. A highly recommended reading! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A Single Memory

Christopher Jude McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

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