On a morning walk at the ranch and wondering how close the oryx will let me get before their prey-animal flight-response kicks in. About 100 yards. (I'm zooming in, so it looks closer.) Unless they have just emerged from the trusty pick-up bearing alfalfa those 2-legged animals are very scary.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Spanish daggers in bloom

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"We're all Canadian now" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

"The president dropped his demand for a $200 million payment from Harvard, lowering the bar for a potential deal." The New York Times calling extortion a "deal."

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

Canada's PM Mark Carney at Davos: “The middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, we’re are on the menu."

The Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation this week. Comments by Mazviita Chirimuuta, Caitlin Mace & Adina Roskies, and Oron Shagrir. philosophyofbrains.com/2026/01/12/f...

So... if the head of a country is acting illegally, other countries can go in and physically remove him and try him for his crimes in their own country? Tell me more...

excellent new book by Ken Aizawa bsky.app/profile/kena...

It is out in hard copy! #philsci #hps

my comments on Michael Kirchhoff's book *The Idealized Mind*, on the Brains Blog philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/03/s...

I'm talking about belief tomorrow www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ka4...

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... #hps #philsci

accuracy-first epiceries

some unexpected visitors this morning

Ken Aizawa's excellent new book is now available, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... and a précis of the book here: philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD

Excellent paper by @zoedrayson.bsky.social... highly recommend! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My brother, Sean Egan , and nephew Francis, opening the Toronto Stock Exchange this morning, on Global Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Recognizing Sean's work on breast cancer.

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

RIP Brian Cantwell Smith. His work should be much better known. www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l

RIP. Very sad… his work should be much better known. www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l

Academic conferences should do "Authors-Meet-Haters" sessions

the weather at the top of the Col du Tourmalet today was very similar to the 2010 Tour de France, when we were there

Thanks to Carrie Figdor for having me on her New Books in Philosophy podcast to talk about my book! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

New paper is out! This one is in analytic metaphysics of mind--I'm branching out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For anyone interested in the minds and social lives of wild animals, and in the moral and practical problems involved in trying to preserve their natural habitat. Available from Amazon and Apple books. www.amazon.com/Gift-Oryx-Ca...

San Antonio

Next was an excellent discussion on representations in minds and brains on the Brain Inspired podcast with Luis Favela, @edouardmachery.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, Rosa Cao, and John Krakauer. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LM... (7/10)

Wishing Mark Carney success in tonight’s debate, in French, with trumpian Pierre Poilievre 🇨🇦

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

My book is available for pre-order today! 20% off till the end of the month (and longer, ask me for a code). I genuinely hoped (and expressed to my publisher) the book to be affordable and Routledge did not disappoint ❤ Ask your libraries to order a copy. www.routledge.com/Reclaiming-t...

Very happy that my paper on generic memory has just been published (open access). #philosophy #philsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations to my brilliant graduate student, Andrew Rubner, for landing a TT job at UNC (among several others). He is deferring his start date at UNC to Fall 2026 to complete another year of his Bersoff postdoc at NYU. It was a pleasure being his supervisor!

Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)

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Excellent new paper by neuroscientists Olivia Guest and Andrea Martin, with an incisive discussion of the ‘cognitive map’ idea. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/

My book Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science is now available for pre-order! Please consider pre-ordering and reviewing the book! So thrilled to share it with the world!!! www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-S...

Just arrived! Official release on March 11... available for purchase or free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160...

Trump's tariffs are intended to destroy Canada's economy. No other rationale makes sense. The first move in his attempt at annexation?

😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com

Revised and expanded version of my 2021 Jean Nicod lectures, to be published March 11, MIT Press (open access)

"An engagingly written piece of narrative philosophy, one that draws inspiration from Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. Matthews tells the compelling story of the close relationship that he and his wife manage to develop with their herd of scimitar-horned oryx ... " -- J. Baird Callicott