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.

#PhiMiSci has released a Call for Papers, inviting submissions for a book symposium on Frances Egan’s new book, „Deflating Mental Representation“. The symposium will be edited by Ken Aizawa, and the submission period runs from November 15, 2025, to April 15, 2026. For more information, see here:

#PhiMiSci recently published a new article: „Attention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory framework“ by C. Dicey Jennings & C. Montemayor explores the role of attention in #AI and argues that we should understand these systems as collective agents.

Wonderful that these two young researchers are being honored. Congratulations! A privilege to know them: Lea was my student aid, while Adrian finished his PhD under my supervision. Outstanding enthusiasm, diligence, and shrewdness in both. Cudos, Lea & Adrian! dailynous.com/2025/11/26/k...

Join us today at 12 CET for the talk by Hadeel Naeem on #AI and the complexity of #pain, the newest entry in our #COMPAIN lecture series: compain.weebly.com

Join us all for the ongoing COMPAIN lecture series on the complexity of pain. Today’s speaker is Saulius Genusias. The whole series and link to the ZOOM link can be found here: compain.weebly.com (supported by #BMFTR and #NSTC)

Wichtiger Artikel, der auch eindrücklich zeigt, wie verwundbar Befristungen das dt. Wissenschaftssystem machen: Befristetes Personal kann man ohne Kündigungsschutz loswerden & so Wissenschaft empfindlich schwächen. Für Resilienz braucht’s dringend mehr unbefristete Stellen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Have a contemplative UNESCO WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY, everyone.

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.

A press release by Aarhus University on our paper on the multiple generator hypothesis (Kirkeby-Hinrup, Fink, & Overgaard 2025) neurocampus.au.dk/display/arti...

Our article on the multiple generator hypothesis for consciousness has been talke about at „The Daily Neuron“. Have a look: dailyneuron.com/multiple-gen...

Join the „Philosophy of AI“ Conference in Amsterdam (23-24. October 2025): www.pt-ai.org/2025/ And join the associated Society for Philosophy of AI while you are at it.

@philpsy.bsky.social Adrian Kind just won the Open Access Prize by the OLH. What a great achievement! Congratulations, Adrian! And all of you: Check out his other work. dailynous.com/2025/09/25/p...

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...

I just quit academia.edu. Even trying to get such a permission – together with AI-screening of my uploaded articles being ON per default – is a no go. All of my newer stuff is open access anyway and I will move it to philpapers.org.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Forbes reports that Germany established a psilocybin access programme. That is quite big news for psychedelic research and therapy in Europe.

Lovely that this little programmatic article is now out in #Gastronomica! Many thanks to Brandon Ashby and all member of project SENSOR (Derek Brown, Jack Lyons, & Fiona @macpherson.bsky.social ). Watch out for more on #SensoryEngineering! Bon appétit!

What a great conference of the Consciousness Research Network (CORN) in Bangkok! The whole team at Chulalongkorn (under the lead of Chaipat Chunharas and Kanit Mitinunwong Sirichan) were such excellent hosts and organisers. Thank you to all participants for the great discussions and all the fun!

Thank you, Adrian, for posting this. Beside our editors and advisors, we are grateful to all authors that have trusted us with their manuscripts.

Das PHILOSOPHIE MAGAZIN hat dieses kurze Interview publiziert über unser COMPAIN Schmerzprojekt. Humor wurde leider rauseditiert, aber ich danke Nils Althaus (dem Interviewer) herzlich für das tolle Gespräch! www.philomag.de/artikel/sasc...

The programme of the upcoming workshop on conscious AI is up: emw.flu.cas.cz #consci

Really great resource for all people interested in illusions: www.illusionsindex.org

Ohne Transparenz regiert sich’s leichter — besonders ins eigene Tascherl. Deswegen: Halten wir’s a bisserl schwerer. Ist eh noch undurchsichtig genug.

Wissenschaftliche Artikel hinter Paywalls und wir haben keinen Zugriff? Ein ziemlicher Skandal, denn schließlich haben wir für diese Forschung ja mit unseren Steuergeldern bezahlt! Bei MAITHINK X decken wir heute auf, wie milliardenschwere Verlage die Wissenschaft im Würgegriff haben! Schaut rein! 🧐

#PhiMiSci announced a Call for Papers for the special issue "Philosophy and Chemosenses", edited by G. Martina & B. Young. It aims to stimulate research on perception, experience, and cognition in the chemosenses, covering established and under-explored questions. Submission deadline: Sept 1, 2025.

#PhiMiSci just announced a Call for Abstracts for a book symposium on “The Brain Abstracted. Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” by Mazviita Chirimuuta, which offers a novel philosophical study of the brain sciences. Deadline: 15th of April 2025.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports www.reuters.com/technology/a...

As a philosopher, I stand with the Maltese entry to #Eurovision: We should hear Conte’s song “KANT”, no matter how BBC announcers feel. #DivaNOTdown #conte #KantBringMeDown www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. The 2025 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. mpe-project.info/the-mpe-proj...

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

CDU Anfrage zielt auf #Greenpeace, #Foodwatch, #PeTA, #BUND und #OmasgegenRechts. Man munkelt “Schattenstrukturen”. Ziel ist es, Förderungen in Frage zu stellen. — klar, die Gefahr für die Demokratie kommt ja von Omas gegen Rechts, etc…. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...

Zu den Urnen! Gegen den Rechtsruck.

Das Centre for Philosophy and AI Research sucht eine Teamassistenz. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 28.02.2025. Wir freuen uns über jede Bewerbung. www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamass...

If you want to forego commercial science platforms, consider „The Lens“ instead of „Scopus“. (I would be grateful if universities were to make the shift as well when considering promotions.) Our journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social ) is indexed there as well.

Why do we dream? 🤔Are they just random neural firings, or do they serve a deeper function? M3CS researcher & lecturer, Dr Manuela Kirberg, joins 'The Briefing' to unpack the science & philosophy of dreaming. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jo3...

This is such a funny complaint from them lmao

A happy Chinese New Year to everyone. May the year of the snake be great for us all.

After quite some effort, our journal „Philosophy and the Mind Sciences“ (@phimisci.bsky.social) is finally index in SCOPUS. SCOPUS is a for-profit-index by Elsevier. Still, we made this step in the hope that it makes the journal attractive to all those that rely on this index for promotions.

Congratulations to Andrew for this. Andrew has now both won the Sanders prize for philosophy of mind AND for metaphysics — both with single authored papers. Excellent work! dailynous.com/2024/12/19/l...

Since we have deactivated our X account, PhiMiSci will repost messages regarding previously published articles that have not been advertised on Bluesky yet.

So happy that “What is Precision Psychotherapy?” a paper I co-authored with @sfink.bsky.social and Henrik Walter has been accepted by the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy! Here you can look at the pre-review preprint. Reach out for the more recent version. philpapers.org/rec/KINWIP-2

What are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) in Erlangen is again offering 3 payed #Visiting #Fellowships for 1-3 months. Any topic in #philosophy or #ethics of #AI is welcome. Deadline is the 15th of January. More here: www.pair.fau.eu/visit-pair/

In den vergangenen Tagen haben führende Liberale massiv bestritten, dass der Begriff „D-Day“ gefallen sei - und @DIEZEIT und @SZ bezichtigt, „Märchen“ zu erzählen. Die Redaktionen müssten „Beweise“ präsentieren. Das Papier, das uns vorliegt, ist ein solcher Beweis.

The PAIR Centre at Erlangen welcomes two new researchers: Brandon Ashby and Hadeel Naeem. In addition to working on the philosophy of AI, Dr. Ashby will join project SENSOR and Dr. Naeem project COMPAIN. We are looking forward to how their research will shape PAIR. www.pair.fau.eu/2024/11/28/p...

Morgen erscheint die billige Taschenbuchausgabe:

Happy to see Bluesky taking off. Here's an attempt at a Philosophy of AI starter pack: go.bsky.app/8pf4odt

Full speed ahead towards the end of my career! 🫣😉

Hey #philsky give a follow to @emas-b.bsky.social, who is a force of nature! Expert in belief, imagination, delusion and bias, and head of research for philosophy at Birmingham. Her handbook on philosophy of delusion is out now! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...