Tomorrow!

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

As part of the Bochum–Grenoble–Taipei Memory Colloquium, Francesco Fanti Rovetta (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will give a talk titled “Ruminative Remembering and the Flexibility of Scenario Construction” on Tuesday, April 14, 18:15–19:45 Taipei time (UTC+08:00).

As part of the Humanities AI Seminar series, Katsunori Miyahara (Hokkaido University) will give a talk titled “The Problem of Artificial Agency” on April 9 (Thu), 15:30–17:20 Taipei time (UTC+08:00). Join us at Guangfu Campus (HC103), Yangming Campus (YX502), or via Google Meet (QR code on poster).

As part of IPMC 2026 Spring Seminar in Philosophy, Faith Liao (Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities Taipei Medical University) will give a talk titled “Human Flourishing: (RE)humanising Medical Education in Practice” on Friday, March 27, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC+08:00).

As part of IPMC 2026 Spring Seminar in Philosophy, Timo Speith (Department of Philosophy, University of Bayreuth) will give a talk titled “Positive AI Ethics: A Constructive Approach to Ethically Desirable AI” on Friday, March 13, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC+08:00).

Happy horse year! 🐴

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.

[COMPAIN lecture series] Time: Nov. 27, 12:00-13:30 CET and 19:00-20:30 (Taiwan time) Speaker: Hadeel Naeem (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) Title: Pain, epistemic injustice, and AI

[COMPAIN lecture series] “Pain and the Life-World: Somatization and Psychologization” by Saulius Geniusas on 20 November 2025 (12:00-13:30 CET and 19:00-20:30 CST) Zoom link: uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/2720643197...

As part of IPMC 2025 Fall Seminar in Philosophy, Kate Vredenburgh (Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics) will give a talk titled “AI, work, and skills” on Friday, Nov 14, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC +08:00).

Join our workshop this Friday!

Yiying Peng (Department of Philosophy, Western University) will give a talk titled “An Aristotelian response to the gamer’s dilemma” on Friday, Nov 7, 10:00-12:00 Taipei time.

陳以森 I-Sen Chen (Soochow University) will give a talk titled “The indispensability of representation to machine learning” on Friday, Oct 31, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.

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.

The promise of AI is everywhere, but what can AI do for us today that we cannot do better ourselves? This workshop confronts expectations versus reality—and the future of AI in academia and beyond……

Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; thomasmetzinger.com) will give a talk titled “Introduction into the Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) research program” on Friday, Oct 17, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.

Hio Ngou Chio (Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) will give a talk titled “Thought experiment: Fiction & modal friction” on Friday, Oct 3, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time

Call for papers: #PhiMiSci is inviting submissions for a Special Issue on Social Perception, understood as the perception of socially relevant properties in others. It is edited by Géraldine Carranante and Joulia Smortchkova. Estimated publication date: 2nd quarter of 2027 Deadline: July 1st, 2026.

Claire Chang (Taipei Medical University) will give a talk titled “Investigating memory in the brain through movies and spoken narratives” on Friday, Sep 12, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC +08:00). Details: phil.nycu.edu.tw/en/ipmc-autu...

@lindsaybrainard.bsky.social‬ has written a beautiful short paper about the harms to a student who uses AI for a creative assignment. Since it is around 4000 words however, I fear that no student considering cheating will read it. philpapers.org/rec/BRASAF-4

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

New call for papers: think.taylorandfranc... Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! What a lovely way to honour our editorial board member Helen De Cruz who was a philosopher, a musician, an artist, and a fiction writer! #philsky

The first paper in our topical collection of papers from the first Eurasian Memory Meeting (phil-mem.org/events/2024-eu…) is now out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Miyazono & Tooming: A preservation/generation distinction about memory

I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the workshop Accuracy in Perception and Memory. It will be held online from 25-27/03/2025. More information, including registration, can be found here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Tomorrow: Mark Sinclair’s talk “Habit, memory, time”

Join us for the talk “Who wants to live forever: A critical analysis of human-deathbot interactions” by Regina Fabry next Monday (12/9) at 15:30 (Taiwan time)!

Next week in the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium: Mark Sinclair (Queen's University Belfast) Habit, memory, time 12:15-13:45 CET/19:15-20:45 Taiwan, 12 December 2024 phil-mem.org/seminars/boc...

This week in the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium: Oryan Zacks (Tel Aviv U) Constructing mental constructions: The evolution of imagination through episodic-like memory 12:15-13:45 CET/19:15-20:45 Taiwan, 28 November 2024 phil-mem.org/seminars/boc...

Our first talk this season of the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium: Hakwan Lau (Institute for Basic Science, Korea) Subjective perceptual experience requires procedural memory 12:15-13:45 CEST/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Time, 17 Oct 2024 phil-mem.org/seminars/boc... @hakwan.bsky.social

Join us for "From Pains to Suffering: A Neurophilosophical Perspective" by Dr. Sascha Fink on Sept 5, 2024, 10:10-12:00 at NYCU (ZhuXing building Room 206). Register: forms.gle/W2ELeK7a97Bw... @sfink.bsky.social #COMPAIN

Starting this Friday!

I dearly hope Helen lives long and well — in part, but only in part, to bring the philosophical vision described here to full fruition helendecruz.substack.com/p/a-manifest...

Evan Thompson’s talk series in Taiwan this June! phil.nycu.edu.tw/post-0213/ @evanthompson.bsky.social

Today at The Memory Palace: John Sutton on tensions between specialization and interdisciplinarity.

If you are working on neuroethics or agency, please have a look at our latest call for papers for a symposium on Joshua May’s book „Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science“, which #PhiMiSci will host in 2025, edited by Carolyn Dicey Jennings: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

#PhiMiSci expresses profound sadness at the passing of Daniel Dennett, a great philosopher and also an esteemed member of our advisory board. His intellect, wit and humor will be greatly missed.

A new article has been published #OpenAccess on #PhiMiSci as part of our current special issue on remembering and imagining: "Remembering trauma in epistemology" from Matthew Frise, in which he explores some surprising effects of psychological trauma on memory: doi.org/10.33735/phi...

We are happy to announce the launch of The Memory Palace! The Memory Palace is a space for sharing scholarly work in and around the philosophy of memory. Subscribe at thememorypalacephil.substack.com to receive an email each Tuesday as a new post debuts. (1/5)

#PhiMiSci just published the next article of its actual special issue on successful and unsuccessful remembering and imagining: „Successfully remembering a belief and the problem of forgotten evidence“ by Shin Sakuragi. Please have a look here: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...