@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...

"Easy Practical Knowledge" by Timothy R. Kearl and J. Adam Carter #openaccess #onlinefirst #newarticle #philosophy #philsky doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

My paper "Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception" has been published open access today on Mind & Language. You can download it from here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #perception

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis. Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

@alfredovernazzani.bsky.social joining us in our Brazilian Philosophy of Mind Research Group to talk about laws of appearance!

Don't miss this workshop on Scientific Understanding organized by @danielkostic.bsky.social , @mmilkowski.bsky.social and Anna Michalska. You can submit an abstract by January 2026. Fibd out more infos here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Jane Goodall, who died Wednesday at 91, was not just a pioneering scientist, but also an expert at wielding the power of fame, Michelle Nijhuis writes.

If you're not outraged about #AI, you're not paying attention: #Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism. Book tickets for this free public lecture by Professor Alice Crary at University College Dublin: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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...