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...

😊 So proud this is out now: "Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social! www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

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.

This is wrenching. So many people going mad, talking to mirrors all the way down.

#PhiMiSci published a new article in its special issue on structuralism: “Action Unity of Consciousness” by E. Schechter. It deals with the consequences of the split-brain phenomenon for the unity of consciousness and proposes a new kind of unity relation that may persist after split-brain surgery.

What is the origin of the term “phenomenology”? It famously occurs in Husserl and Hegel but their projects are clearly different. Where did the word come from? Were they both drawing on a common source? A thread...

Has anyone in #philsky published in SpringerBriefs? I’m considering it for a project and would really appreciate hearing about your experiences.

New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness

A new article in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism was published: "Methodological Structuralism and the two-Factor Approach: Implications for consciousness science and AI" by Lukas Kob discusses the potential benefits of methodological structuralism for the neurosciences of consciousness.

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.

#PhiMiSci has recently launched a new special issue on "Structuralism and the Science of Consciousness". It opens with a new paper by David Rosenthal titled "Objective foundations for the study of mental qualities". Have a look!

LAST REMINDER! ⏰ Our call for papers is approaching its final deadline! Don't miss your chance to submit your work. One month left! Submission: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph... @gualtiero.bsky.social @loehrgui.bsky.social @philosophyofai.bsky.social @wanjawiese.bsky.social #philsky

Here's your chance to download not only my book 'Slime Mould and Philosophy' , but download ALL the books in Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology series from the 20th to the 25th of July for FREE! I highly recommend Jan Baedke's (2025) book 'The Organism'. cup.org/4kEgivL #ISHPSSB #philosophy

Another Call for Papers from #PhiMiSci: We welcome submissions for a special issue titled “Centering Experience in Mental Health: Bridging Psychiatry and Consciousness Science”, edited by C. Caporuscio, R. McAlpine, K. Jerotic, S. Dohnany, V. Joris, and R. Beaute. Deadline: February 1, 2026.

Philosopher interested in artificial consciousness ? Appreciating excellent diamond open access journals? Submit! Special issue on artificial consciousness edited by @wanjawiese.bsky.social, Christian de Weerd and myself Deadline: January 2026 philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

#PhiMiSci has released a Call for Papers for a special issue titled "Evaluating Artificial Consciousness". It will discuss the problem of artificial consciousness from various perspectives and is edited by Wanja Wiese, François Kammerer, and Christian de Weerd. Submission deadline: January 15, 2026.

#PhiMiSci has published a full book symposium on Joshua May’s "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science". Edited by Carolyn Dicey Jennings, it features five contributions, along with a précis and a response to the commentators by Joshua May. Now fully #OpenAccess on the #PhiMiSci website.

#PhiMiSci published a new article: "The information-processing perspective on representation" by Manolo Martínez. The paper introduces a novel framework for theorizing about representations in cognitive science. Take a look!

the long-awaited video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the ASSC conference in NYC in june 2023 has been released: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DH.... i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at x.com/davidchalmer....

Deadline for Abstracts: 6 July! 👇

My co-editor-in-chief @wanjawiese.bsky.social just pointed out that *Philosophy and the Mind Sciences* is considered to be a top quartile philosophy journal by Scimago, 90th percentile by Scopus 🎉

I'm presenting a poster at @assc28.bsky.social Here's a teaser. See you in Poster Session 4, Time: 08/July/2025: 4:30pm-5:30pm #PhilMind #Consciousness

#PhiMiSci has announced a Call for Papers for a new Special Issue on infant consciousness, edited by Claudia Passos Ferreira, Sascha Benjamin Fink, and Joel Frohlich. The submission deadline is October 15th, 2025, and the estimated publication date is Q2, 2026. We look forward to your submissions!

#PhilMind #PhilTech #Consciousness

Zoom link for Evaluating Artificial Consciousness (10-11 June, hybrid): us02web.zoom.us/j/8458680683... artificialconsciousness.philosophy-cognition.com

Hard to explain how good this paper is. Completely shakes up the idea that culture changes visual perception. This is a must read paper. From @dorsaamir.bsky.social & @chazfirestone.bsky.social philpapers.org/archive/AMII... #psych #meta

#PhiMiSci has launched a new "Commentaries" section. The first piece is by J. Galiano-Landeira, responding to Michael Newall’s “What is it like to be a tetrachromat?” It connects Newall’s analysis of tetrachromatic color perception with reflections on the question of AI phenomenal consciousness.

What constitutes intelligent behaviour? This question is explored by N. Poth, T. A. Tjøstheim, and A. Stephens in their new article "Rethinking intelligent behaviour through the lens of accurate prediction: Adaptive control in uncertain environments". Now available #OpenAccess on #PhiMiSci.

Out today!

New paper (Open Access): Conscious perception as augmented reality. #Philosophy #PhilMind #PhilTech #PhilPerception www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#PhiMiSci has recently published a new article in its special issue on dreaming and mind wandering: "When life is but a dream: Does transliminality predict continuity of thought across the sleep-wake cycle?" by J. R. Ortega, M. E. Rosen, and J. W. Schooler: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Habemus website: wanja-wiese.de

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These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

A Teaser: Jan Baedke’s Element book on “The Organism” at @cambridgeup.bsky.social will be available in print & Open Access on July 8th! It discusses philosophical, historical and social dimensions of the organism concept. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci

#PhiMiSci has published a new article as part of our ongoing special issue on dreaming and mind wandering: "Why do we remember our dreams so well? Implications of dream recollection on the imagination vs. hallucination debate" by Ludwig Crespin and Melanie G. Rosen. Take a look!

This year's Mathematical Consciousness Science conference, Models of Consciousness 6 (#MoC6) will take place in Sapporo, Japan. 👉 You're cordially invited to join us! Kudos to this year's main organizer, Robert Prentner! amcs-community.org/events/moc6-... #consci

With immense pleasure, here is our #TICS opinion paper on "mind blanking"! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social **Where is my mind?** A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Jenny Windt, @antoinelutz.bsky.social and @ademertzi.bsky.social

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

When we advised the UK government about 🐙🦑🦀🦞🦐 sentience in 2021, we also highlighted the worst welfare risks they face and what it would take to address them. Not much has changed yet, so we've published an updated review (open access) with all the latest evidence: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 New preprint! How do we know what is real? so... "Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological & Computational Model of the Sense of Reality" is out! The result of 4 years of incredible teamwork👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Next Tuesday (29.04) I’ll have the honor of delivering a @cogist.bsky.social talk about Dan Dennett’s controversial views on consciousness. You can register at the link below (if you are in Europe, please note that the talk will be actually at 16:00 CEST) cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...

#PhiMiSci is looking for new Editors! If you appreciate our work and would like to join our team as either Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor of a fully cost-free #OpenAccess journal, apply by April 22nd, 2025. You can find the application details here: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...