Our online talk series "Inferences & Capacities" continues in June with Susanna Schellenberg's talk on "Perspectives, Schemas, and Capacities" @sschellenberg.bsky.social Check out the poster for instructions on how to register! #philosophy #philbluesky #inferences&capacities

New paper out. In open access! #Kant #Philsky #Philosophy verifiche.padovauniversitypress.it/2025/2/4

Online Now: Machine understanding

AI and the Degradation of the Human Capacity for Friendship (guest post by @gracehelton.bsky.social) Part Two of a two-part series by Grace Helton (guest blogger) schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/05/ai-a...

ChatGPT Is Not Your Friend: guest post by Grace Helton at The Splintered Mind schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/05/chat...

Still funny, after all these years.

We are proud to announce a new SI on Phil Studies on "Relationalism and Its Discontents," find below the CfP — open until November 2027. link.springer.com/collections/... #philosophy #philosophyofperception #relationalism #philosophicalstudies #cfp #philbluesky

Excellent new paper by Beck and O’Callaghan on the perception-cognition border in terms of capacities employed. I'm sympathetic to their view: cognitive capacities can be employed in perception, and some capacities are both perceptual and cognitive, so the perception-cognition border is fuzzy.

We are happy to announce the second talk of our series "Inferences & Capacities"! #philbluesky #philosophy #talk #inferences

Horrah - this is out. Thanks @aristotsoc.bsky.social for asking me to write it. Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

First talk of our series! #philbluesky #philosophy #philosophersonbluesky

We are proud to announce our new talk series on "Inferences & Capacities" co-organized by me, Mariela Aguilera, and Matías Osta-Vélez! Find below the 2026 lineup and info on how to register. #philosophy #philosophySky

There are no such things as sharks, say scientists. #philosophy #marineBiology #PoMB apple.news/A7ELqyaTTS5a...

My paper is finally out on Phil Studies. "Animating Scientific Understanding" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #philosophy #understanding

New on the Archive: Vernazzani, Alfredo (2026) Animating Scientific Understanding. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28411/

A great new podcast with Kareem Khalifa from UCLA, who will join Pitt, HPS in Fall 2027! We talk about scientific understanding and of the role of misunderstanding in scientific progress. #philsci

I have been away from Mastodon for a while, not finding the time to be active here. In any case here goes the final version of a paper on content and meaning in LLMs, co-authored with @raphaelmilliere. It lived a long preprint life, but is now published in an outstanding special issue of the […]

@alfredovernazzani.bsky.social presents a new account of how we represent perceptual objects in terms of 'compresent' properties. #naiverealism2.0

New paper alert, forth. in Philosophical Studies "Animating Scientific Understanding" philpapers.org/rec/VERASU-2 #philosophy #philosophysky

On February 25 at 18:00, I will give my Fellow Lecture on “Urban Aesthetics and Well-Being” at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg. The talk will also stream live on Zoom. Participation is free — let me know if you want to attend! #philosophy #philosophysky

📣 Letter with the latest updates on EPSA2027 *and* EPSA2029, changes in the steering committee, the proceedings for EPSA25, and more... #philsci

Join us in Dortmund! #philbluesky #philosophy #philosophersonbluesky

@alfredovernazzani.bsky.social is exactly right. They think that any order the President gives is lawful. Just start with killing people at sea off Venezuela. Even GOP senators have questioned the legality of this, and an admiral resigned. #NewNurembergTrials

Certain characters from a Dostoevsky novel and some ideas from psychoanalysis make an appearance as well. If this sounds interesting, here’s the preprint: philpapers.org/rec/HUBUAX (Open access version coming soon—thanks @unicologne.bsky.social ) #philsky #philosophypapers #academicsky 5/5

New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0

Do bees see nothing? Primates with damage to the visual cortex have no conscious visual experience, but display adaptive visual behaviour (a phenomenon called blindsight). Here I team up with two primate researchers to ask if bee vision could be similar to blindsight. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

“Kant and Environmental Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative of Sustainability” Zachary Vereb www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Some pics of my public speech on the history of antifascism in Italy before and after 1943. I talked about the Arditi del popolo, my grandfather, and the many secrets of the past that still shape our present lives.

@dryan149.bsky.social and I have published a paper on how we should all be a little less like Holden Caufield (i.e. obsessed with the idea of authenticity) and a bit more like María Lugones (i.e. celebrating our multiple facets)

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

Is enemyship just inverted friendship? Or is it a sui generis category. Check out "Enemies" by Rebecca Roman Hanrahan & Walter Ott. They explore conceptual, taxonomical, and normative questions about having enemies. Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/apa....

This absolutely breaks your heart in just under three minutes, then leaves you to get on with your day like nothing has happened

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

Our paper on perceptual habits has now been published open access. You can download it here: #philsky #philosophy

Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like…

Happening next week in Bochum! I'll speak about the story of Italian anti-fascism, and present snippets from my book-in-progress on my trips to uncover the history of my family. All are welcome!

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... #consciousness 🧠🧪

Fantastic commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's BBS paper by @renrutmailliw.bsky.social, @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & Hinze Hogendoorn. Hits lots of nails on the head. As @neddo.bsky.social & I also argue: postdiction doesn't prove consciousness is slow! 1/3

Online Now: How miscommunication can improve collective performance in social insects

Tomorrow (October 29th) at 7:00 pm EDT, join the @ganativeplants.bsky.social's virtual event with @jaapderoode.bsky.social, where he will discuss his book, Doctors by Nature, and how animals discover and harness medicine in nature. Register for this free event here: gnps.org/calendar-eve...

And now the call is out! The local organising committee is working very hard to make it a success, so please come #philsci

Highlight from our symposium on laws of appearance today. Lots of participants and hectic discussion on my proposed laws of appearance! Photo credit to @remisramos.bsky.social #ispsm25

Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to impose meaningful consequences on the Israeli government, including appropriate sanctions, enforcement of ICJ and ICC rulings and warrants, and withholding of arms. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org

Hey everyone, a reminder to submit to our special issue on smell, taste and flavour! Deadline 1st November! philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

The symposium on "Laws of Appearance: Between Contingency and Necessity" will take place this Sunday at ISPSM 25, online - GMT Time 15:15 - 17:15. Panelists: Ned Block Alfredo Vernazzani EJ Green If you'd like to participate, please contact me for the link! #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy

I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...