Tomas Marvan 🇪🇺

@tmarvan.bsky.social

NCCs & theories of consciousness, philosophy in neurobiology Senior research fellow & head of the Dept. of Analytic Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague https://sites.google.com/view/tommarvan/homepage

My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

1. This is a well-argued critique that highlights the weaknesses in Mudrik et al.’s reconceptualization. But we don’t need to retain two separate notions of consciousness (P/A) to preserve the essence of Block’s distinction. We don't need to accept AC as a self-standing kind of consciousness.

(PDF) Against Access Consciousness

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Ian Phillips@ianbphillips.bsky.social · 4w ago

My reply to @liadmudrik.bsky.social et al.'s proposal that we should reengineer @neddo.bsky.social's famous phenomenal/access distinction.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Russia’s Political Persecution of a Philosopher: Further Details (guest post)

Earlier this week, it was reported that Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats was placed under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched. What is going on there, and why? In the following guest post, Elizaveta Shcherbakova (Humboldt University of Berlin), who used to work at the Institute of Philosophy alongside Dr. Mesyats, but who has now left Russia, explains. “The danger… is very real,” she wrote in an email. “the charges, bogus though they are, carry a sentence of up to ten years in a Russian penal colony.” She is hoping that “even a little clarity and attention from abroad could help my former colleagues.” Russia’s Political Persecution of a Philosopher by Elizaveta Shcherbakovba I am writing to make you aware of a deeply troubling case of political persecution in Russia involving a scholar in our field, targeted for practicing that field with integrity. The purpose of this note is, first and foremost, to make the case known to the community. I will close with some suggestions about possible steps to take, should people wish to do so. The case concerns the Russian scholar of ancient philosophy Svetlana Mesyats, whom some of you may know. Svetlana has been a visiting scholar at Karlsruhe and Freiburg and, most recently, held a postdoctoral position with the TIDA (Text and Idea of Aristotle’s Science of Living Things) project at Tübingen. She works on Plotinus and Neoplatonism, and is a member of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies; she also works on Aristotle, especially the Parva Naturalia, and on Theophrastus. The case also concerns her colleagues working on ancient philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I will divide this memo into sections, in order to give a manageable overview of the case. What Happened I have learned that on the 19th of May, 2026, the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences was raided by officers reportedly from the Centre for Combating Extremism, which effectively functions as Russian state’s secret police. Svetlana, along with around ten others, all of them participants in a project dedicated to, among other things, preparing.. The post Russia’s Political Persecution of a Philosopher: Further Details (guest post) first appeared on Daily Nous.

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