Just arrived!! Sharing Thoughts in the flesh at last. 💫🥹🥳

Thought Sharing in Action (TSA) is one of 59 projects selected by the Leonardo Grant scheme in 2025. We aim to approach sharing and communication in I-You interactions from a fresh, empirically informed angle. An associated 12-month postdoc will be called soon! www.redleonardo.es/beneficiario...

"Is there a shareability requirement on successful communication, disagreement or the transmission of knowledge? More generally, how should we understand the communication and coordination of our thoughts in exchanges with others?" #philsky

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out. doi.org/10.21428/e27...

Really excited to be co-editing this transdisciplinary research topic at the interface of collective human trauma and Earth systems Change. Please share! And get in touch to discuss ideas if you are thinking of submitting something. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

I'm in London till the end of this year and will be hosting this workshop with Robyn Carston in December. Come and say hi! Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives - PhilEvents share.google/dYgWGjAebsH9...

Honoured to be included in this volume, continuing my longstanding campaign to reanimate semantic holism.

Well yes! Sharing Thoughts is now published!! @oupphilosophy.bsky.social With amazing fresh pieces from C Peacocke, I Dickie, G Longworth, F Recanati, J Pollock, M García-Carpintero, S Sawyer, S Prosser, L and F Schroeter, A Onofri, JL Bermúdez, R Goodman, A Gray. academic.oup.com/book/60759

Thinking Together, freshly published version. academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...

Can you be aware of nothing while you are asleep? I wrote a new piece on dreamless sleep experiences for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/can-you-be-a.... I also talk about some of the exciting findings from @tecferrer.bsky.social's research. Supported by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

The @logos-group.bsky.social staying at Logos, of course (pic with @martajorba.bsky.social and Daphne Bernués). Happy memories of #ESPP2025 from Warsaw. Congratulations to @mmilkowski.bsky.social and his fabulous team for an unforgettable conference!

Really great symposium led by Emily Sullivan, with Michael Franke (@meanwhileina.bsky.social) and Bojana Grujičić on "LLMs and Human Reasoning" #ESPP2025 IFiS PAN, Warsaw

@cameronbuckner.bsky.social delivers his keynote on reasoning LLMs during #ESPP2025

Here's a guest piece (credits to @vtgvzdk.bsky.social ) which draws on a report we wrote together for the Czech media (it may yet come out) regarding the results of a national representative survey we did on the issue of how #philosophy is perceived by the public. dailynous.com/2025/09/03/h...

Actors, videogame players and VR users often experience *imaginative contagion* - imaginatively adopted attitudes persist into daily life. My paper explains why this occurs and answers the concern that it may result in our acquiring immoral attitudes. doi.org/10.1111/phpr.70056 #philsky Thread:

Mark your calendar! I'm organizing a symposium on laws of appearance with @neddo.bsky.social (Ned Block) and EJ Green. October 26 from 4:15 - 6:15 pm (CEST) @ispsm.bsky.social

How do people with depersonalization (DP) see themselves? Our new study in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social used a reverse correlation method to show that more severe DP symptoms are linked to highly detailed - but strikingly inaccurate - mental images of the self-face in memory.

Check out this wonderful handbook edited by Gualtiero Piccinini on "Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind"— forthcoming on September 18! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Published now in an issue of @journalphp.bsky.social: "On the rationality of thought-insertion judgments." Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

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

Enmig d’un final de curs intens, contenta de rebre aquest guardó! ✨ bsky.app/profile/upf....

Got an excited text from Jag Williams (my utterly phenomenal grad) about our Dennett paper - his very first paper, and first author-paper, is coming out soon! AAHHHH. So incredibly proud of him! Thanks to @lisabortolotti.com @ @journalphp.bsky.social #Philsky

Surprising new result: Participants with vmPFC lesions *do not* show the usual effect where moral judgments impact intuitions about whether a behavior was performed intentionally

Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU

I’ve been awarded one of the 60 Leonardo Grants 2025 for the project "Thought Sharing in Action: A Naturalistic Approach." Very grateful and delighted, and eager to explore this new path of research. More on this soon! www.redleonardo.es/noticias/adj...

Gill Eapen interviewed me on some of my recent work -- integrating psych and neuro, classical vs nonclassical LOT, egalitarian composition and realization, and knowing that as knowing how -- for the podcast Scientific Sense. Links below.

As someone thinking a lot about the way we can seem to share thoughts, feelings, existential dispensations, hunches with our favorite artists — something we have a sense of when it seems an artwork is about us, when it ‘gets’ us—I can’t wait to check this volume out.

In case you need a distraction from... *gestures broadly at everything* here's a cool 🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨: Philosopher of medicine Cristian Saborido and I tackle the question of whether animals engage in medical practices. Spoiler alert: we think they very much do👇🧵 1/20

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mental Representation by Manolo Martínez: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.b3e7ef9b

Cover and all! Available now to pre-order. #SharingThoughts global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Latest from @mthsvlnt.bsky.social: Asymmetries between 'you' and 'I' The paper presents the Asymmetry Argument to argue that first-person thoughts can't be shareable without undermining their role in motivating action. A must-read, and open access! ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...

What does it mean to relive past experiences? How should the feeling of episodic memory be studied? Francesca Righetti is at The Memory Palace with some thoughts on how to use phenomenology to move forward on these questions. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

Next Tuesday (12:15 CET) I will be presenting a development of this material to cover cases of intersubjective remembering. Also closely related to the themes of the Sharing Thoughts book. Very grateful to the organisers of the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium! phil-mem.org/seminars/boc...

"The mental tyranny of AI writing" is the most successful blog post I've had. If you haven't read it, I would be thrilled if you could! meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

SO excited about this new paper by @talboger.bsky.social! How does your mind separate the *content* of an image from the *manner* in which it is depicted? And how can we study this using tools from perception research? Find out in Tal's new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper 👇

Great to see the first papers out in the Special Issue on themes from the philosophy of José Luis Bermúdez, now live in the journal Theoria.👇👇👇 Co-edited with @mthsvlnt.bsky.social & Valentí Simpson. All open access. More on the way!

📄 NEW PRE-PRINT! 📄 How do we acquire beliefs? According to one intuitive view, we can entertain thoughts, and then choose to accept them as beliefs or reject them. philpapers.org/rec/PIOBWW (🧵1/10)

If you're interested in the nature of belief, evidence-resistance, etc., you should read this very cool new paper by Federico Bongiorno. philpapers.org/rec/BONESA-2...

Preprint time: “Shannon invariants: A scalable approach to information decomposition” arxiv.org/abs/2504.15779 Studying information in complex systems is challenging due to difficulties in defining multivariate metrics and ensuring their scalability. This framework addressed both challenges!

Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought reasoning is already a big thing. That is, CoT models can "reason" not only with chains of text self-prompting, but also by producing images, audio, and more, and engaging with the stimuli they self-produce in a variety of ways. arxiv.org/abs/2503.12605

Reference and Remembering, a topical collection in Synthese, is now fully published. Here's our editorial introduction to the 15 contributions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?" will be presented at #ICLR2025! It's also the first paper of my first PhD student, congrats @maximemeloux.bsky.social ! 🎉 blog: melouxm.github.io/MI-identifia... An explanatory thread 🧵:

Best books on the senses? Bianca, you forgot one. #Philsky www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...