I contributed an entry on delusion to this new encyclopaedia with @emas-b.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

All that supremacist stuff about autistics being inherently more honest than everyone else etc. was always going to end here.

£1.2M UKRI grant supports groundbreaking study into the psychology of belief www.gla.ac.uk/.../news/hea...

Great honour to be awarded the very first prize for Public Communication of Philosophy by the British Philosophical Association! #philosophymatters #philsky

Pleasing news: Philosophy at Warwick doing well in QS rankings: warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

Looking forward to this ”When knowledge isn’t power” workshop Wednesday at @philoswarwick.bsky.social ! It is taking place during #BritishPhilosophyFortnight – for more information about events and why #PhilosophyMatters see link in next post. ⤵️

Full programme is updated 🤠

My article in Mind now has an issue number academic.oup.com/mind/article...

Just published: a book chapter introducing my new explanation of why rational people hold irrational beliefs. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Save the dates (12-13 March 2026) for the 'Self-Awareness and Intersubjectivity' Conference at Warwick, with a fantastic line of speakers: Henrike Moll, Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social, Matthew Boyle, Lucy O’Brien @lucyobrien.bsky.social, Naomi Eilan, Johannes Roessler, and Eliza Little.

A fascinating & damning exposé on Oliver Sacks, author of “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”. It turns out, by his own admission in his private journals, that much of his work was akin to “fairy tales” — based on “lies”, “falsifications”, & “fabrications”. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NEW ARTICLE: "Experiences of Derealization: A Naive Realist Account" I explore how derealization - where one's perceived environment feels unreal - challenges naive realism. A mix of philosophy of mental health and philosophy of perception. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Open access.

Save the date (25 March 2026) for a workshop at Warwick on 'When knowledge isn't power', with an amazing line of speakers: Heather Widdows, Fiona MacCallum @fimaccallum.bsky.social, Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social, and Quassim Cassam.

This paper is finally assigned to an issue with Open Access. Hope you like it. 'Akratic Beliefs and Seemings'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 103(4), 994–1010. doi.org/10.1080/0004...

I have news. Wonderful news. New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief. philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF

My article on Schopenhauer‘s alleged misanthropy is now available in early view - and it’s open access!

A dear dear friend is gone. There are no words. His family have set up a memorial page to share tributes.

The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.

A new issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research is out, featuring my article on moral concerns about the corruptive effects of imagination in games/VR. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19331592... You can read a short summary here: newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/imaginativ... #philtech

Finally announced on the @springernature.com website my new book on #metaphors and their #embodied nature in shaping our #thinking, #feeling, #perception and more. Very personal note: the book is dedicated to my dear colleague and Riccardo, who died 6 months after we signed the contract ❤️

Talking to a monk is fine, as long as one does not think that their opinion will be representative of the whole of the theology they are part of. 1/

In this week's Junkyard post, Julia Minarik offers reasons to think that "machine-made images have less content than images created by human hands."

Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know

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

Super happy to receive my first paper in French, with @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social and @matteomameli.bsky.social, on confabulation and conspiracy theories, in a book entitled “Les fables de l’homme”. Thanks David Simonin for leading the project and translating the paper. #philsky #philpsy

Obsessed with the cover of the Chinese edition of my book!!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 💙📚 #booksky #books

During this month in 1887, the public first learned of the investigative exploits of the amateur detective, Sherlock Holmes. The first memoir of one of his cases, penned by his colleague Dr. John Watson, was published as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual. #BookSky

#philsky #philpsy

My invited op-ed on the subject of "AI psychosis" at @bmj.com Have a read: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.

My new article on lived experience research. I criticise Bhaskar as a philosophical foundation. I argue that seeing psychiatric diagnoses as idealised and abstract models leads to a pluralistic relationship between lived experience and diagnoses #philsci #hps #philpsy #sts #livedexperience

Sex Beyond "Yes" in the Washington Post! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

MindGrad Deadline Extension: The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October! Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp... #philsky #philconf #philosophy @philoswarwick.bsky.social

This paper is now assigned to an issue. The dark side of clarity. Southern Journal of Philosophy. 63(3): 429-443. doi.org/10.1111/sjp....

I got off academia dot edu 5 or so years ago, when I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me - I found out when a very senior member of the profession replied to one. It's only gone further and further done this path since, as far as I can tell.

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

Knowledge as a Capacity: Ryle and Cook Wilson. Draft: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil...

My new article, "Calling Trauma, Elite Capture, and Hermeneutical Injustice," is out in Phil Quarterly! It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵

Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊

Great to be at the conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy in Turin! I talked about attributions of responsibility and implications of blame in mental health interactions #philsky #agencyprojects

📣 New publication! 📣 My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓 @philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social

This week, Chenwei Nie (University of Warwick) introduces his new approach to the issue of "Why do rational people obstinately hold onto irrational beliefs?" This is a section from the upcoming publication 'Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Normativity' (Routledge). #philsky imperfectcognitions....

@emilyherring.bsky.social might like to know the epigraph to this paper.

I am on tour from the end of this week. I will be at the Urbino Summer School in Epistemology from 25 to 27 August and at the SIFA conference in Turin from 28 to 29 August. Six (different) talks in five days! Wish me luck. (Really pretty posters!)

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I've had the privilege of writing a chapter for the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine with Dr Ellie Byrne and Dr Ian James Kidd! 🙌 Check out our chapter on 'Epistemic Injustice in Medical Contexts' here 👉https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_92-1