It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th www.phomo.org/event-detail...

The mirror as a site for learning and memory. Antonella Tramacere (Roma Tre University) is at The Memory Palace today, adding layers of nuance to how we think about what's reflected when we look in the mirror. A wonderfully rich way to wrap up our 2025 posts. See you in 2026! #philsky #philscisky

🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc (This is 2/2 announcements we will make)

10 more days to submit extended abstracts for IPM5 philevents.org/event/show/1... Avoid FOMO; join PhOMO! #philsky #philscisky

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag @eduede.bsky.social and Daniel Friedman will present their paper "How (Not) to Attribute LLM Mental States" 🤖🧠

Kathy Puddifoot (Durham) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing Mnemonic Injustice and the ways that the structure and use of our memory systems can wrong others around us. A provocative read; highly recommend! #philsky #philscisky

🚨 Call for Papers! Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026 Apply by 30 November! Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9 #philsky

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️ Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue June 10-12, 2026 Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us! Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

Juan Diego Bogotá (Jyväskylä) is at The Palace today, asking how groups share knowledge of their collective past and whether it warrants the title "collective memory." Juan has translated his thought-provoking post, so it's available simultaneously on the Palacio. Enjoy! #philsky #philscisky

#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience @phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

Discover how greater gender parity and the growth of female leadership across Latin America created the conditions for a successful social movement, in this illuminating case study from Somebody Should Do Something www.amba-bga.com/insights/voi...

Next week in San Diego!

🔥 New Publication: @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social has a book chapter titled "Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence" forthcoming in 'Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations' Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE

Katja Crone (TU Dortmund) is at The Memory Palace today, talking about the special case of memories for patterns of personal experience. These generic memories play a significant role in our lives, and so should play a larger role in our study of memory, too. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

The Memory Palace takes a big step forward with our translation project today. Check out our El Palacio de la Memoria section, featuring the efforts of the MemoriEs project - and come back regularly (or subscribe) to see more that we’ve got lined up to debut in the weeks ahead! #philscisky #philsky

Squinting at this image? You’re trying to identify objects in the blur, much as psychologists do when they approach research objects. Uljana Feest develops this view of psychology in her recent book, and she's talking about how it shapes implicit memory at The Memory Palace today. Enjoy! #philscisky

This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠

“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

The Memory Palace is back for a new season! Starting with a great post on controversial commemoration from Ten-Herng Lai. Take a look!

The Memory Palace wraps up our season with a post from Dylan Trigg (CEU), arguing for a return to the richer, historical notion of nostalgia. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Highlights from the most recent SSPP meeting are up at the Brains Blog this week. I started things off with some thoughts about the distinctive virtues of the SSPP model for an interdisciplinary conference. Thoughts? Objections? Let’s get our hands on some ketamine and hash it out!

This week we are very happy to co-host a series of posts with the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, featuring work from this year's annual meeting!  Check out posts each day of the week on the blog.

What does it mean to relive past experiences? How should the feeling of episodic memory be studied? Francesca Righetti is at The Memory Palace with some thoughts on how to use phenomenology to move forward on these questions. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

Episodic remembering comes with a complex phenomenology. How can we account for it? Which methodology is best suited to study it? Today, Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum) shares some very interesting ideas about these questions. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

How much of our self-knowledge comes from memory? Ben Winokur (University of Macau) is at The Memory Palace today on the complicated process by which self-knowledge requires belief in one's own memory. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Catching my breath after an amazing 3 days at #EngramsandEnsembles2025 Bit terrifying to close out such a stellar meeting, but absolutely worth it for the conversations afterward. thanks @tjryan.bsky.social for one hell of an engram!

PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

Day 28 (breakthrough): The brain's memory "engram" - a tremendous cumultative brain research accomplishment that unfolded across a century, including multiple Nobel prizes. Also a terrific test case for the question: How does progress in (neuro)science happen? #ElusiveCures30

Radical Enactivism purports to explain remembering without reliance on the age-old memory trace. Dan Hutto is at The Memory Palace today, arguing for Radical Enactivism’s advantage in characterizing memory from mice to large language models. Take a look!

Very excited for this Engrams and Ensembles meeting next week in Dublin!

You get to keep one memory from your personal past. This is the provocative premise from which Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) begins his post at The Memory Palace today. A great read! #philsky #philscisky

The philosophy of memory is growing in Japan! Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology) is at The Memory Palace today discussing recent and upcoming events, and the unique ways of this community is expanding the topics under consideration. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

When it comes to episodic memory, what distinguishes us from other animals? @cameronbuckner.bsky.social and Hunter Gentry are at The Memory Palace today, with a novel proposal (hint: it's not mental time travel!). Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Many of ethical dimensions of memory modification depend on the value framework from which you view the issue. Mona Jahangiri (Göttingen) is at The Memory Palace today, using Mullā Ṣadrā's work in Islamic Philosophy to explore issues surrounding memory, identity, and trauma. #philsky #philscisky

The world's first heavyweight wrestling champion also wrote a book on memory, advocating for forgetting as much as possible, to allow ourselves to understand our intrinsic nature. Check out @dranseika.bsky.social post on George Hackenschmidt at The Memory Palace today! #philsky #philscisky

The quest to naturalize memory offers a limited conception of our capacities to retain the past. What if we saw memory as a social kind instead? Alison Springle explores this question at The Memory Palace today. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Revisiting memories, alone and with others, changes the horizon of associated experience. Daniel Gyollai (Copenhagen) is at The Memory Palace today, offering a thought-provoking Husserlian perspective on perspectives. Enjoy! #philsky #philscisky

So...my new book is now apparently out ( global.oup.com/academic/pro...)! I haven't seen a physical copy, but others apparently have... so that's cool. The book provides an account of why humans think in the distinctive ways we do—with nods towards AI, etc.

Sometimes, remembering how you once felt feels as foreign as imagining how it would feel to be someone else. Megan Entwistle (WUSTL) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing this puzzle of perspectival forgetting. A great read! #philsky #philscisky

How does our sense of memory errors change if we adopt a teleosemantic view? Krystyna Bielecka (University of Bialystok) is at The Memory Palace today applying her recent book on misrepresentation to problems of memory error. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

If you didn’t already have FOMO, for PhOMO, you will after reading @openshaw.bsky.social post The Memory Palace today. A great overview of the philosophy of memory organization and its recent initiatives and developments. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

Severance features a set of people who have opted to mentally sever their work selves from the rest of their lives. What about grief and trauma makes this seem like the right choice? Em Walsh (UCF) explores this question at The Memory Palace today, with characteristic care and subtlety. Enjoy!

The Memory Palace doing what we can to share the love of philosophy of memory more widely. ❤️❤️❤️ ¡Besos! #philsky #philscisky

The Memory Palace is back! We’re starting with a fantastic post from Alberto Guerrero-Velazquez on a recent conference and the consequences of restricting philosophy of memory to English. A great read and a great project! #philsky #philscisky

We will feature this article in the January session of the International Memory Reading Group:

Finishing off The Memory Palace 2024 series with a post from Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin, reflecting on the past, present, and future of their impressive and influential Centre for Philosophy of Memory in Grenoble. Enjoy, and we'll see you in the new year! #philsky #philscisky