Is the #mind just a metaphor? Dive into our new book symposium with this thread for #vol39issue3! Start with Kathleen Murphy-Hollies and Lisa Bortolotti's editorial doi.org/10.1080/0951...#mind#vol39issue3!ree access #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy 1/9

I am extremely grateful to @lisabortolotti.com and @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social for organising this symposium and to the fantastic contributors: Craig Bourne, Emily Caddick Bourne, Tamás Demeter, @zoedrayson.bsky.social, László Kocsis, Krisztián Pete, M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez, and Kendall L. Walton

What are Dennett's powerful ideas? Discover it in this new thread on #vol39issue3. Let's start with an editorial by Felipe De Brigard on #AI and the breakdown of the intentional stance, free access here: doi.org/10.1080/0951...#vol39issue3.#AI#philsky #philpsy 1/16

Very exciting new issue published today! It contains a special issue on the philosophy of Daniel Dennett (Dennett's Powerful Ideas) and a symposium on Adam Toon's book, "Mind as Metaphor" #vol39issue3 Enjoy! www.tandfonline.com/...#vol39issue3

Our editor in chief was awarded the 2026 BPA prize for Public Communication of Philosophy. Congratulations Lisa! bpa.ac.uk/prizes2026/ #philsky #philosophyforeveryone #philosophymatters

Latest papers: Melina Tsapos addresses the gap in a unified explanation of what motivates conspiracy belief by introducing a framework that incorporates multiple dimensions of conspiracy belief in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Craig French develops a new problem for naive realism: the problem of derealization in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

New publication! ✨ Why does the growing everyday use of psychotherapy terms feel both empowering and troubling? Because two practices are at play: mental health-speak, which empowers, and therapy-speak, which distorts. w/ @almagro.bsky.social in @journalphp.bsky.social 🔓 tinyurl.com/24bhx4e9

Philosophy of Psychiatry call for papers

🧠☸️ ​Sonia de Jager explores how meditation and "bardos" (transitions) mirror entropic brain "edging" equilibrium. By relaxing a "self-model," we don't just find peace but reorganise our cognitive priors to survive an uncertain world #philsky ​ #Neuroscience #Buddhism #EntropicBrain #Meditation

New publication! ✨ Why does the growing everyday use of psychotherapy terms feel both empowering and troubling? Because two practices are at play: mental health-speak, which empowers, and therapy-speak, which distorts. w/ @almagro.bsky.social 👇👇

Really grateful for a thoughtful and thorough review of my book by Seiara Imanova @seiaraimanova.bsky.social, just out in Philosophical Psychology! @journalphp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MENEA...

(I also had the great fortune to serve a journal that rose from the ashes to become a clear role model in value-centered, quality-first, community-building journalistic practices -- @journalphp.bsky.social. Please follow them, too, by the way)

Likely to interest to everyone who was at the @gamesbeyond.bsky.social Metamodern Games Conference.

Latest papers: Hüseyin Beyköylü, Jon Vervaeke & Daniel Meling provides conceptual tools for understanding self-transcendent experiences, contributing to a comprehensive science of human flourishing doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Our Associate Editor Kengo Miyazono wins prestigious JSPS prize for Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies of Rationality and Irrationality. Congratulations Kengo! #philsky #philpsy

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Journal metrics: impact factor, cite score, and downloads on the rise, processing time shrinking, and an acceptance rate that does not make you lose the will to submit. #philsky #philpsy

Want to read some books? We have free book reviews for you! Follow this thread... #newbooks #philosophy #vol39issue1 #vol39issue2 1/10

Hey, #vol39issue2 is out now, with 19 papers. Follow this thread to know more... leadership styles, parenting, norms, self-diagnosis, AI, groups, values, judgements, imagination, belief, perception, natural kinds, pain, critical thinking, addiction... something for everyone! #philsky #philpsy 1/20

Latest papers: Inés Abalo-Rodríguez, Rebeca Pardo-Cebrián, Sandra Doval, Chrysanthi Blithikioti & Laura Arévalo-Saiz examine the dominance of neuro-reductionist models in psychiatry and introduce behaviour analysis as a compelling alternative doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Our year in open access - December: Bas de Boer & Ciano Aydin on The necessity of objectification: Sartre and Lacan on online body shaming doi.org/10.1080/0951... Jason Branford & Jordan A. Conrad with Log in, lie down: ethics and the digital turn in psychotherapy doi.org/10.1080/0951... 1/2

Latest papers: Anna Wehofsits argues that the common notion of a simple trade-off between the prudential benefits and ethical costs of positive illusions overlooks the ethical significance that they can have in time of adversity in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Jason Branford & Jordan A. Conrad explores eleven ethical challenges to digital mental health interventions that arise across the lifecycle of their development, deployment, and regulation in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

I'm delighted that @journalphp.bsky.social is the home of this paper, born out of the long-standing & extremely fruitful collaboration between @keithfrankish.com & Daniel Dennett. Open access! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy (soon to appear in our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas)

With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Bas de Boer & Ciano Aydin argue that online body shaming is grounded in a mismatch between the way one self-objectifies and the way in which one is objectified by another in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Our year in open access - November: Florian Cova & Angela Gaia Abatista with From self-transcendent emotions to transcendent experiences: an exploratory study in the continuity between everyday and mystical experiences 1/3

Latest papers: Nicolás Sebastián Sánchez argues that Dennett’s views on the intentional stance shift eschews the role of the rationalists assumption in deterring what the system represents doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Julian Kiverstein, Hüseyin Beyköylü & Michiel van Elk defend a causal plauralist theory that suggests multiple valid explanations can be offered of the causal influence of set and setting on the psychedelic experience doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Our year in open access - October: Roger Christan Schriner on Understanding sensory qualities: fictionalism versus limited illusionism doi.org/10.1080/0951... Peter Slezak with Who is the spectator in Cartesian Theater? doi.org/10.1080/0951... 1/4

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Dan LLoyd addresses Dennett’s “center of narrative gravity” working toward a positive account that explicates the double metaphor via the analysis of the nature of narrative doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Our year in open access - September: Mina Caraccio, et al. with Psychedelics beyond medicine: treatment, enhancement, hype, consent, and the limits of medicalization doi.org/10.1080/0951... 1/3

Latest papers: Francesco Abbate & Rocco Gaudenzi propose a two-dimensional framework for classifying artificial cognitive abilities doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Annemarie Kalis, August Christensen & Samuel Nikolai Langelaan argue that to understand the aims of folk psychology and to map out similarities and differences between various practices, we need thick descriptions doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Allan Køster & Emily Hughes purpose that the concept of consolation is a necessary part of the existential register needed to respond to human suffering in situations that cannot be changed or helped doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy

Our year in open access - August: Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera on Beyond minimalism: why objectivity matters for metaethical moral realism doi.org/10.1080/0951... Agata Machcewicz-Grad on Local fictionalism and the integrity of a subject doi.org/10.1080/0951... 1/3

Latest papers: Arnon Levy interrogates the idea that the mind approximates Bayesian inference, asking what is means to claim that the mind approximates one computation by executing another doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Our year in open access - July: Florian Cova & Federico Seragnoli on The role of self-transcendent emotions in psychedelic experiences: a two-process proposal doi.org/10.1080/0951... 1/5

Latest papers: Katherine Puddifoot describes how people are unjustly prevented from effectively managing their fear and anxiety in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Agustin Vicente & John Collins argue that polysemy does not undermine ambiguity tests doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: Bruno Mölder argues that there is still no satisfactory response to the cognitive collapse objection to mental fictionalism doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Our year in #openaccess - June: Giulia Lorenzi on Knowing how to listen: musical professionals listening to music doi.org/10.1080/0951... Eric Schwitzgebel & Sophie R. Nelson with When counting conscious subjects, the result needn’t always be a determinate whole number doi.org/10.1080/0951...#openaccess1/5

Latest papers: Leonard Dung & François Kammerer argue that illusionism has substantial and non-trivial implications for non-human consciousness research in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Latest papers: John Anderson P-Duarte & Estefanía Losada Nieto explore joint attention theory as a compelling framework for explaining successful narrative exchanges in clinical contexts in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Our year in open access - May: Bouke de Vries with Mommy’s favorite: should parents try to love their children equally? doi.org/10.1080/0951... Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes on Pantheism: one and all doi.org/10.1080/0951... 1/3

Latest papers: Florian Cova & Angela Gaia Abatista present the results of an exploratory study, the goal of which was to identify ordinary experiences that might share the key characteristics of mystical experiences in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy