Only a few days left to apply for these postdoc fellowships with our project. And happy holiday season/university break to all who celebrate and who are done grading! 😉✨

The December newsletter for the IAPT has been sent - with news of plenty of talks, CFPs, and new books! If you’re not subscribed, you can find it here: us14.campaign-archive.com?u=cce10949f2... If you want your talk/workshop/conference including on future issues, let me know!

LAST CALL: Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia Length: 3000 words. Deadline: December 1, 2025. Prize money: 3,000 Euros.

Heading to Warwick for a workshop on temporal experience, and appropriately enough it feels like I lived here so recently and yet such a long time ago (no doubt exacerbated by the fact that I never lived here with my son). Looking forward to a fun day of talks (if the weather lets me arrive…)!

Philosophy jobs at @UofGlasgow: one will last until mid-2029, the other until mid-2030. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

12-month Psychology lectureship in a very friendly team at York St John - we're looking for qual methods, and would be especially great if you can teach health psychology from a qual perspective. Please share: tinyurl.com/ysjpsych

New paper 🎉 All about the genesis of the Specious Present in Kelly’s (/Clay’s) work. I suggest that it didn’t serve the purpose for him (vis-a-vis the perception of motion) that is often implied. There’s also a lesson for contemporary debates re. temporal experience jhaponline.org/article/view...

Coming up at Warwick University: Workshop on temporal experience, 14th Nov 2025

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...

Escaping the books for a couple of days and enjoying being based in the NW of England once again.

Happy to receive this in the post this morning!

Out now 🎉 ‘The Folk Concept of Time’, written with @ruthjlee.bsky.social for the new Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time.

There's still one month left to send in your submissions for MindGrad 2026! #philsky #philmind #philconf

Call for papers for a conference I'm hosting in London in May 2026 - Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #philsky

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA (2026) We request submissions of high-quality abstracts (500 words max.) for our group meeting at the Central APA in Chicago, IL, February 18–21, 2026. Deadline: 25th August 2025. www.philtimesociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Today will be my final day enjoying this view from my office in Edinburgh - I sure will miss it! (But I’m even more excited to get started on some new research elsewhere…)

MindGrad 2026 Call for Papers now open! 2026 is a special year, marking the 20th edition of the MindGrad series of conferences. Submission link: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp... #philsky #philmind #philconf

International Association for Philosophy of Time, 10th annual conference, 7th–9th July, 2025. @cptmilano.bsky.social bit.ly/iaptusach

🔔 HeaR Workshop: Perceiving Time /May 27-28, 2025, University of Turin. Explore how we perceive time and experience temporal events beyond the present moment. Keynotes speakers: Arstila, Di Bona, Dolev, Jeong, Nudds & Torrengo. ➡️ Program & details: hear.unito.it/activities

🚨PhD Call for applications – The Human Mind and its Explanations (HuME). Language, Brain and Reasoning 📍IUSS Pavia, University of Milan, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa 🗓️ Deadline: June 9th, 2025 – 1:00 p.m. (CEST) 8 fully funded 3-year PhD scholarships now open! 🔗 Apply: iusspavia.it/.../apply

#YorkFestivalOfIdeas 2025 will be featuring an event #AboutTime exploring different aspects of #time, from #physics, to #art, and #philosophy! If you're in the area, on Sat 14th June, I will be delivering the opening talk "How Philosophers Think about Time" #YorkFesitvalOfIdeas #PhilosophyOfTime

British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Award. Deadline: 31 May. #philsky british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/po...

Now out - Discounting past experience and the utility of memory: an empirical study We investigate the utility people assign to experiential memories and quantitatively compare the relative subjective weightings given to ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ experiences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On my way to the SPA AGM, and I’ve already managed to pour coffee all over the paper I was reading. A great start to the day. Luckily, the talks promise to markedly improve the day.