#PhiMiSci has launched a new special issue on Infant Consciousness, edited by C. Passos-Ferreira, S.B. Fink, and J. Frohlich. The first batch features three articles, covering topics including infant color consciousness, the marker method, and an argument for assessing fetal consciousness.

Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ

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Ever had a pain? Tell us about it and help in researching our understanding of pain. The survey takes about 15 minutes. www.soscisurvey.de/compain/

One of our new projects with the University of Cambridge, Exploring the Grey Zone: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Religious Delusions and Conspiracy Beliefs, is looking to hire a fixed term Research Associate in Psychiatry or Psychology: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

US fördert weiter psychedelische Forschung. Auch Deutschland sollte hier aktiver werden, denn es gibt noch viel zu tun. www.youtube.com/live/GoHoG9c...

Trump signs executive order encouraging psychedelic drug research

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Awesome workshop on neural correlates of consciousness! Join, in person or online: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

I am very proud of the special issue on „Structuralism in the Science of Consciousness“ that @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I edited for @phimisci.bsky.social. The topic has been stewing in the consciousness community for years, but this SI is the first to bring together different perspectives.

#PhiMiSci has released a Call for Papers, inviting submissions for a book symposium on Frances Egan’s new book, „Deflating Mental Representation“. The symposium will be edited by Ken Aizawa, and the submission period runs from November 15, 2025, to April 15, 2026. For more information, see here:

#PhiMiSci recently published a new article: „Attention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory framework“ by C. Dicey Jennings & C. Montemayor explores the role of attention in #AI and argues that we should understand these systems as collective agents.

Wonderful that these two young researchers are being honored. Congratulations! A privilege to know them: Lea was my student aid, while Adrian finished his PhD under my supervision. Outstanding enthusiasm, diligence, and shrewdness in both. Cudos, Lea & Adrian! dailynous.com/2025/11/26/k...

Kind & Nickel Awarded Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Daily Nous

The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for Phil...

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Join us today at 12 CET for the talk by Hadeel Naeem on #AI and the complexity of #pain, the newest entry in our #COMPAIN lecture series: compain.weebly.com

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COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and ​Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)

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Join us all for the ongoing COMPAIN lecture series on the complexity of pain. Today’s speaker is Saulius Genusias. The whole series and link to the ZOOM link can be found here: compain.weebly.com (supported by #BMFTR and #NSTC)

COMPAIN PROJECT

COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and ​Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)

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Wichtiger Artikel, der auch eindrücklich zeigt, wie verwundbar Befristungen das dt. Wissenschaftssystem machen: Befristetes Personal kann man ohne Kündigungsschutz loswerden & so Wissenschaft empfindlich schwächen. Für Resilienz braucht’s dringend mehr unbefristete Stellen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Jan-Martin Wiarda@jmwiarda.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Deutschlands Hochschulen im Stresstest: Wenn Populismus auf Wissenschaftsfinanzierung trifft Das Wissenschaftssystem ist weniger geschützt, als viele glauben. Programme könnten durch einfache Haushaltsbeschlüsse gestrichen werden. Justus Henke im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...

Have a contemplative UNESCO WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY, everyone.

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.

A press release by Aarhus University on our paper on the multiple generator hypothesis (Kirkeby-Hinrup, Fink, & Overgaard 2025) neurocampus.au.dk/display/arti...

Daily Neuron comments on The Multiple Generator Hypothesis

In a recent paper published in Neuroscience of Consciousness, researchers Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Sascha B. Fink, and Morten S. Overgaard propose a paradigm-shifting alternative. They reject the old ass...

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Our article on the multiple generator hypothesis for consciousness has been talke about at „The Daily Neuron“. Have a look: dailyneuron.com/multiple-gen...

The Multiple Generator Hypothesis Could Revolutionize Our Search for Consciousness - Daily Neuron

The multiple generator hypothesis challenges the idea that only one theory of consciousness can be right, suggesting multiple pathways exist in the brain.

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Join the „Philosophy of AI“ Conference in Amsterdam (23-24. October 2025): www.pt-ai.org/2025/ And join the associated Society for Philosophy of AI while you are at it.

@philpsy.bsky.social Adrian Kind just won the Open Access Prize by the OLH. What a great achievement! Congratulations, Adrian! And all of you: Check out his other work. dailynous.com/2025/09/25/p...

Philosopher Wins Open Access Award - Daily Nous

Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access Award. The award is given by Open Library of ...

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What if there is no unified theory of consciousness? What if there is just a motley crew of multiple generators? Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Morten Overgaard and I investigate what this would mean for consciousness studies. (Thanks to both of you!) academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness

Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou

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I just quit academia.edu. Even trying to get such a permission – together with AI-screening of my uploaded articles being ON per default – is a no go. All of my newer stuff is open access anyway and I will move it to philpapers.org.

Dr. Nick Posegay@nposegay.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Forbes reports that Germany established a psilocybin access programme. That is quite big news for psychedelic research and therapy in Europe.

Germany Approves EU’s First Psilocybin Access Program

Germany has given the green light for two medical facilities to offer psilocybin to adults with treatment-resistant depression.

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Lovely that this little programmatic article is now out in #Gastronomica! Many thanks to Brandon Ashby and all member of project SENSOR (Derek Brown, Jack Lyons, & Fiona @macpherson.bsky.social ). Watch out for more on #SensoryEngineering! Bon appétit!

What a great conference of the Consciousness Research Network (CORN) in Bangkok! The whole team at Chulalongkorn (under the lead of Chaipat Chunharas and Kanit Mitinunwong Sirichan) were such excellent hosts and organisers. Thank you to all participants for the great discussions and all the fun!

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We would like to invite submissions of abstracts to be presented at the 5th Meeting of CoRN to be held August 6-8 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Please submit an abstract no longer than 1800 ch...

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Thank you, Adrian, for posting this. Beside our editors and advisors, we are grateful to all authors that have trusted us with their manuscripts.

Adrian Kind@philpsy.bsky.social · last yr.

The Diamond OAJ ournal @phimisci.bsky.social received metrics for the first time. Sure metrics are not the whole story, but its amazing to see them directly behind Philosophy of Science, and ahead of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science SJR Value! Lets keep pushing OA Philosophy! #philsky

Das PHILOSOPHIE MAGAZIN hat dieses kurze Interview publiziert über unser COMPAIN Schmerzprojekt. Humor wurde leider rauseditiert, aber ich danke Nils Althaus (dem Interviewer) herzlich für das tolle Gespräch! www.philomag.de/artikel/sasc...

Sascha Fink: „Nicht Schmerz ist das Interessante, sondern schmerzinduziertes Leiden”

Der Erlanger Philosoph Sascha Fink fordert eine neue Sprache für Schmerz, einen neuen Fokus auf Leid und neue Ställe für Schweine.

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The programme of the upcoming workshop on conscious AI is up: emw.flu.cas.cz #consci

Really great resource for all people interested in illusions: www.illusionsindex.org

Ohne Transparenz regiert sich’s leichter — besonders ins eigene Tascherl. Deswegen: Halten wir’s a bisserl schwerer. Ist eh noch undurchsichtig genug.

abgeordnetenwatch@abgeordnetenwatch.de · last yr.

Die Union will offenbar das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) abschaffen, meldet @fragdenstaat.de. Dahinter stecke Philipp Amthor – der wg. seiner früheren Tätigkeit für Augustus Intelligence selbst unter IFG-Anfragen von uns & FragDenStaat zu leiden hatte 🧵 fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...