philpapers.org/rec/MITPSA-4 forthcoming paper on touch and peripersonal space!

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#philsky 30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy ::

This evening! #philsky

Raquel Krempel discusses her work aiming to better understand aphantasic experience. This draws on studies she conducted (w/ collaborators) that compared aphantasics and controls when they were asked to describe their experiences trying to imagine and trying to remember something.

✦•┈๑⋅⋯ ⋯⋅๑┈•✦•┈๑⋅⋯ ⋯⋅๑┈•✦ The ​Royal Institute of Philosophy Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025 Perception Under Threat Frédérique de Vignemont Thursday 20 November 8.30pm (UK time) Live on YouTube with audience questions Everyone is welcome! ✦•┈๑⋅⋯ ⋯⋅๑┈•✦•┈๑⋅⋯ ⋯⋅๑┈•✦

“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.” —Simone de Beauvoir In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇

‘November always seems to me the Norway of the year.’ ~ Emily Dickinson. Autumn, Konstantin Gorbatov, 1910.

🎈Book launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by Jonathan Webber Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30 Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!

Synopsis of my forthcoming book on visual experience, horizons, spatial perception, phenomenology, and much more! www.academia.edu/142898251/A_...

Updated website with upcoming talks. www.jonathanmitchell.co.uk

Early Phenomenology.

"Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. In order to write... the first essential condition is that reality should no longer be taken for granted; only then can one both perceive it and make others do so." ~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life / La Force de l'age

I’m fully biased as one of the organisers, but EPSSE is a wonderful space for nerding out about emotions! AND we get to go to Paris this year ✨ CFP open until 7 January - send us your feels 😌😉😒😣🤬😱🤭🫠😶 #philosophy #philsky

Stealing some time this morning to read my brilliant colleague @sarahafisher.bsky.social’s paper on how LLMs bullshit (and also why they do not have to do so!) 💫 #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Some of you may be interested in this post by Ori Freiman on chatbot regulation for Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

amzn.eu/d/8kTB7Oh Ever wondered what Emotions are? #philosophy - look no further!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=95cu... Favourite Dylan song (of the moment)

Morning bakes!

Monday’s Sourdough

3-year postdoc on the philosophy of multisensory perception with Błażej Skrzypulec at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, project 'Ontology of multisensory unification'. Details of the position and project description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833 #PhilJobs

I thoroughly enjoyed discussing the philosophical ideas of James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre at How The Light Gets In a couple of months ago. And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production. #philsky iai.tv/video/sartre...

Sourdough Sunday….

Philosophy has long ignored the senses, missing their complexity, role in our everyday lives, and their impact on our consciousness and reality, argues @barrycsmith.bsky.social Watch his talk here: https://buff.ly/3V8RKjJ #philosophy #consciousness

Ever wondered what Husserl and the other phenomenologists mean by 'horizons', especially in visual experience? Then look no further! Also: If anyone wants a quick precis of the book I'm working on then this article pretty much does that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"All that is real in human #history becomes irrational in the process of time." ✒ #FriedrichEngels, German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with #KarlMarx, was #BOTD 28 November 1820. #Politics #Philosophy

Interesting version where Dylan changes quite a few of the lyrics! youtu.be/zRrWVDZCfTQ?...

The Andromeda galaxy captured by the Hubble Space telescope

Not one for Monday night….

La Rouchefoucauld residence

Call for Abstracts: 5th Biennial Conference of the Network for Phenomenological Research - Phenomenological Realism Now and Then 28-29 July 2025, Okayama University, Japan Organisers: Genki Uemura & Alessandro Salice www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/cfa-5th-bien... #philosophy #phenomenology

Hi bluesky 👋 We're still getting our butterflies in a row over here, but watch this space. We'll be bringing you phenomenology news from around the world here soon! 🦋

Is there a phenomenology starter pack available??

Stunning image of Venus Credits: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech

Take a look at more of my work over at www.jonathanmitchell.co.uk

Dark Wholemeal Sourdough

First article share on here: Sartre on Perception and Imagination, and why they exclude each other… doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

This is the sort of thing I’m thinking about at the moment (other than getting older): academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

And the famous spiral staircase !

La Rochefoucauld Library!

Latest sourdough!