What does it mean to sucessfully remember pain? Are we uniquely deficient in remembering pain? Find out about this in our blog post on the Heterogenity of Pain Memory and Pain Amnesia. 👇

The Memory Palace@philmemopalace.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What does it mean to say we remember pain? Today at The Memory Palace, Sabrina Coninx, Ying-Tung Lin, and Christopher McCarroll examine the many ways we can understand pain memory. A great read! #philsky #philscisky open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What does it mean to say we remember pain? Today at The Memory Palace, Sabrina Coninx, Ying-Tung Lin, and Christopher McCarroll examine the many ways we can understand pain memory. A great read! #philsky #philscisky open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

The Heterogeneity of Pain Memory and Pain Amnesia

Sabrina Coninx (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Ying-Tung Ling (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) Christopher McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

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🚨 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...

Rethinking Disruptive Technologies: Benefits, Harms, and Injustices of Human Niche Construction - Philosophy & Technology

Philosophy & Technology - Disruptive technologies are a key theme in economics, the philosophy of technology, and situated cognition - yet these debates remain largely disconnected. This paper...

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Two PhD positions on the diversity and variability of grief, among others, supervised by Regina Fabry. Amazing project and involved researchers, located in Sydney!

Regina Fabry@reginafabry.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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...

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...

The European Pain Federation EFIC and Grünenthal announce the opening of applications for the EFIC-Grünenthal Grant 2027! 🎉 This initiative supports clinical and human pain research by ECRs. Submit proposals by 7 Sept 2026. Find out more: europeanpainfederation.eu/efic-grunent...

Publication Alert: I much enjoyed to be part of this interdisciplinary team and to work a bit more out of my academic comfort zone on intentions and brain-computer-interfaces.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Moving intentions from brains to machines Opinion by Christian Beste, Heleen A. Slagter (@haslagter.bsky.social), Christian Herff (@cherff.bsky.social), Yukiyasu Kamitani (@ykamit.bsky.social), Sabrina Coninx (@sconinxphil.bsky.social), Richard van Wezel, & Christian Frings tinyurl.com/mr2ch69z

This is such a great paper: absolut must-read for everyone interested in women's pain and the question when we are justified to infer psychogenic diagnoses from the absence of a physiopathology!

Tiina Carita Rosenqvist@tcrosenqvist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our paper about women's pain and psychogenic diagnoses is now out: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

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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What an amazing line-up for everyone interested in philosophy of pain!

Institute of Philosophy of Mind & Cognition (IPMC), NYCU, Taiwan@nycu-ipmc.bsky.social · last yr.

COMPAIN Lectures: The Complexity of Pain and Its Normative Implications The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join the COMPAIN Lecture Series featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Join us this Thursday for an exciting talk by @sconinxphil.bsky.social! Event info: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... To join via Zoom, please register here: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/kon... Meeting details will be distributed via email. #ConSci

We've got some amazing speakers lined up and a broad range of topics. It's going to be a very stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion so please join us if you can!

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · last yr.

Our schedule for our next network seminar has now been finalised! Check out our website for the full list of awesome talks: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/10/netw... P.S. there's still time to register!

Paper Alter🚨 The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View: doi.org/10.1080/0004... This has been a long process of over five years of rewriting, rethinking, revising, and resubmitting. So happy that this is finally out there in the world.

The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View

In the philosophical literature, it is widely assumed that pains are unified and distinguished from other types of experiences by ‘what it is like’ to undergo them. While philosophers mostly argue ...

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Het was een geweldige interview voor Trouw over chronische pijn, het ontbreken van fysiologische oorzaken en de rol van sociale acceptatie. Het is ook mijn eerste Artikel in het Nederlands: www.trouw.nl/verdieping/d...

Door te accepteren dat pijn er nu eenmaal is kunnen we veel leed verzachten, denkt deze filosoof

De zoektocht naar lichamelijke oorzaken van chronische pijn doet vaak meer kwaad dan goed, stelt ‘pijnfilosoof’ Sabrina Coninx. Ze bepleit een pijnvriendelijke maatschappij, die het lijden op andere m...

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For all the pain researchers: There is an interesting Call for Papers on Chronic Pain and Social Justice (edited by @jadawlittle-phd.bsky.social). Check it out: kiej.georgetown.edu/special-issu...

Quite excited to be a speaker at the ISPSM conference this year. Submission is still open until the 01.05.2025 👇

ispsm@ispsm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨ Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025 See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details. #philsky

#philsky #philmind Ppease share widely!

ispsm@ispsm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨ Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025 See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details. #philsky

It has been great writing this piece with @peterstilwell.bsky.social about the mind-body divide and why it is often misleading to speak of 'physical' vs. 'psychological' pain.

Institute of Art and Ideas@iai.tv · 2y ago

“Pain challenges us to think beyond the body versus mind and physical versus psychological, showing instead how deeply intertwined these realms are.” | buff.ly/KpQPYoU Tap to read more from @sconinxphil.bsky.social and Peter Stilwell here. #philsky #medsky

My book Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science is now available for pre-order! Please consider pre-ordering and reviewing the book! So thrilled to share it with the world!!! www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-S...

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science: 9780367518110: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

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Check out this great collection of papers just coming out on 'Scaffolding Bad'. Especially excited about all the amazing work on narratives!

David Spurrett@doctorspurt.bsky.social · 2y ago

The introduction to the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi is out! (This is by me, Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton, the co-editors.) All but two of the papers are out too, and those last ones are in the production pipeline. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The introduction to the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi is out! (This is by me, Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton, the co-editors.) All but two of the papers are out too, and those last ones are in the production pipeline. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Introduction: Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm - Topoi

Topoi -

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The moral significance of #consciousness or #sentience in artificial systems is one of the topics we'll discuss at our workshop “Evaluating Artificial Consciousness”: eac-2025.sciencesconf.org 10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum

David Gunkel@davidgunkel.bsky.social · 2y ago

The problem with using #consciousness or #sentience for deciding moral status is that these properties have difficulties with definition & detection. Thus by using these properties, decisions about moral status are about power and #Ethics becomes #politics. bit.ly/Gunkel-PTR

Just a reminder, the deadline for abstracts for our special collecting in Adaptive Behaviour on "Prospects for the Science of Enaction" is two weeks away! #philsky #cogsci #philmind #philsci journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...