This last year turned out quite fruitful for my 'wider-audience articles' writing. Here's my latest essay, this time responding to an interesting call in SPAM magazine on the 'dreamification' of the internet. www.spamzine.co.uk/post/essay-s...

This book is finally out. You'll find there our chapter on "Frames of discovery and the format of cognitive representation" by yours truly and Dimitri Coelho Mollo. Thanks to @gualtiero.bsky.social for the amazing editirial work!

I had kept my academia.edu page active for convenience, but the new Terms of Use are rapacious — they can use all your content for AI. (See below) Sorry! NO. Please share and consider.

Ruth Millikan: Reply to Alison Spring         Styles of Rationality was written 20 years ago, well prior to any thoughts of   (unicepts of) unicepts.  The question of Hurley and Nudds’ book Rational Animals? was whether non-human animals were rational in any sense.  I would have to think through…

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.

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity. We See Things They’ll Never See by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday is out now. Learn more about this pathbreaking book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Group photo after my talk in Córdoba on "The Puzzle of Aspect Selection: Seeing-as and the Subject's Motivational Structure" — a team of amazing people. Thanks to Mariela Aguilera for hosting me!

New publication alert! In this paper co-authored by me & Francesco Marchi, we argue that many instances of perceptual learning should be construed as habit-like rather than skill-like. Find the preprint on PhilPapers: philpapers.org/rec/VERHFO?f...

Check out the latest entries in the SI of Phil Studies I'm coediting with Federica I. Malfatti: link.springer.com/collections/...

I wrote about poetry and philosophy (again): Under the Net ksetiya.substack.com/p/analogy

Próxima sexta no Recife!

The Kant car is right, you know

Happening this Thursday, in Santiago (Chile) I'll give two talks on the same day.

On Christopher Marlowe www.harvardmagazine.com/books-litera...

Happening next week in Córdoba

How much does the environment we’re raised in change how we see the world? Wonderful piece in @sciam.bsky.social by @norabradford.bsky.social, ft. an interview with @dorsaamir.bsky.social about our work on the 'cultural byproduct hypothesis'. www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

Positive and Negative Aesthetics | By Michael R. Spicher aestheticsresearch.com/2022/10/30/p... #aesthetics #philosophy #philsky

When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind? In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

This Friday in Montevideo

I'll give two talks in Córdoba (Argentina) on September 1-3, the first one on necessary laws of appearance and the second one on how our motivational structure affects experience-as. Drop a message to the group Cartografías Cognitivas if you want to join! #cartografiascognitivas #córdoba

From ancient Greece to the Arabic golden age, scholars have been driven by their curiosity to investigate astronomy, history, philosophy, and sundry other disciplines. Is there a structure to that curiosity? Are astronomers as likely to also be historians or to also be philosophers?

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

We should be launching large-scale projects to save the biosphere. Instead rich idiots are putting all of our resources into propping up stochastic parrots. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

Some interesting new Cambridge Elements out this week - this one on E. E. Constance Jones by Gary Ostertag looks especially worth grabbing:

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

Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Authors: Lara Maister @laramaister.bsky.social, Anna Ciaunica @annaciaunica.bsky.social

I am really looking forward to reading this book - this Element is free online from 9th June 2025 - 23rd June 2025

Here's the preprint of my forth. paper on "Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception" on Mind&Language. My claim, inspired by Kantian schematism, is that perception unfolds with distinctive rhythms: philpapers.org/rec/VERLCA-3...

Congrats to Mazviita Chirimuuta 🥳 Richly deserved, it's truly an outstanding book!

Today is Liberation Day in Italy! On the 7th of November, I'll give a public speech at Bochum's Library, title: "Die Geheimnisse der Anderen: Der Kampf gegen den Faschismus in Italien vor und nach 1943." I'll talk about the fight against fascism and presents snippets of my book-in-progress.

Now published in Philosophy of Science. This paper analyzes industrial distraction, a common technique where industry actors fund and share research that is accurate, often high-quality, but nonetheless misleading on important matters of fact. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Zuzanna Rucińska junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/3/...

Shot w/my Leica camera #dlux7 #leica #leicacamera

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Alfredo Vernazzani @alfredovernazzani.bsky.social junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/1/...

I have a review essay in Jacobin about @mattpolprof.bsky.social excellent new book THE POLITICAL THEORY OF LIBERAL SOCIALISM. Here, I try to say something about the relevance of the tradition for our present moment. jacobin.com/2025/02/libe...

Not a new publication, but I've just read Lauer's "What Is It to Know Someone?" and thought of sharing this excellent paper! philpapers.org/rec/LAUWII

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

Interview about my recently completed ERC project on the European Commission website (in 6 languages): cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

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Now more than ever it is important to keep antifascism and memory alive! This Sunday, we will commemorate the 21 Italian soldiers (IMI) forgotten by history, who had been killed in an Allied bombing of the Forced Labour camp where they were kept prisoners by the Wehrmacht, in 1945.

This is a good starting point for thinking about moral responsibility of scientists too, not just intellectuals. I have qs though about the equation of speaking truth to power to critique. These two can come apart presumably

a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability. arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740

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