Just started -- but it's been brewing for a while, as both @ledaberio.bsky.social and I have been much inspired by recent very cool work by many others, especially @thebusyowl.bsky.social, Elizabeth Schechter, and Daniela Dover

🚨New Paper!🚨 Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't! We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On my way to Skilled Social Interactions in the Age of AI Workshop at the University of Florida to present new work by @lizbowen.bsky.social and I: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/FUTURE-EVENTS/

New discount code for my book! Just in time for the holidayzzz!

Consider proposing a commentary to the American Journal of Bioethics on the forthcoming paper Megan Delehanty and I wrote on the harms of AI psychotherapy chatbots!

"There’s really barely any evidence that shows that [AI therapy chatbots] are in fact effective...We do not have longitudinal studies that look at people with diagnosis of mental disorders who did not have any other kind of help, who used these chatbots, and can say that they benefited from these.”

"Plus, many studies are being conducted by the companies who are trying to sell their product, which is a “research integrity and conflict of interest issue,” Tekin notes."

“Most of the studies, however, aren’t without limitations. So far, much of the current research on AI chatbots for mental health support has been non-randomized, non-controlled, and small in sample size, says Şerife Tekin"

I talked to Prevention about the use of AI chatbots for psychotherapy. www.prevention.com/health/menta...

Emerged from my plague and made it to campus to be greeted by apples and this lovely recognition from my students, who declared me the exceptional teacher of the month. I love their comments, especially the part about my gusto 😂

Thank you for having me @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social! The most engaging community I could have hoped for!

After a super invigorating workshop in Wageningen I am now in Dublin for a talk and a dissertation defense. www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...

Check out this great post by @lisabortolotti.com on the expertise in mental health workshop that took place in June Radboud University where I provided an overview of my book. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-...

Check out this great post by @lisabortolotti.com on the expertise in mental health workshop that took place in June Radboud University where I provided an overview of my book. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-...

Super excited to be in Wageningen for @rachelankeny.bsky.social Rachel Allyson Ankeny’s Inaugural Lecture and the workshop leading to it.

Just finished the busiest, all hands on deck teaching week of the year. It went so well, felt super connected to all the 180 first year med students and taught Bioethics in the way I like doing it: lots of philosophy of science, films, first person stories, and lectures by brilliant colleagues.

My two co-authors Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva talking about our soon-to-be-a-real-thing book _Somebody Should Do Something_ on The Philosopher's Zone podcast @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Alex Madva, co-author of "Someone should do something: how anyone can help create social change", most clearly articulated the connection between the problems raised by previous speakers & the tension between individual & structural frameworks www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/la-... #ClimateAction

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

Still waiting to hear about the part in our approved proposal for Purdue's new hub for philosophy of cognitive science (the Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center) that would require all CAIC events to serve this specific refreshment

Hammer Down, CAIC'ed up.

Soft-launching Purdue's new hub for philosophy of cognitive science (the Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center) with the following overly-aggressive meme, as is recommended by the university media handbook

We are doing a special issue on "Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry" in Philosophical Psychology! Details below. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2026! Please share widely. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Thanks to Carrie Figdor for having me on her New Books in Philosophy podcast to talk about my book! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

New interview in the Salon on the self. www.salon.com/2025/05/26/t...

A new book by my friend and colleague Liz Bowen and her coeditors for all your syllabus needs! Discount code: AAFLYG6 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Back from Europe, so energized by seeing the great work on philosophy of psychiatry and medical humanities over there! Special thanks to my amazing hosts @literarti.bsky.social and @who-knows-what.bsky.social in Durham and Nijmegen and get to spend time with movers and shakers @lisabortolotti.com

Loved getting the chance to speak at this conference and learn more about current research in epidemic injustice in psychiatry, lived experience expertise, and potential futures for the field that improve both its ethical and epistemic outputs.

We have received such amazing abstracts in reaction to our CFP for our "Who knows what in mental health care?" conference! We'll be discussing the role of lived experience, experiential knowledge and epistemic injustice in psychiatry. Can't wait! June 10-11 @ Radboud University - more info soon.

Last talk of day 1 of our conference 'Who knows what in mental health care?', by Julian Kiverstein. "Giving authority to the medicalized language of the DSM is exclusory to the vocabulary of lived experience" "Phenomenology can be a tool for communicating experiences that are hard to describe"

We have heard some amazing talks at our first conference day! First, the great dr. Serife Tekin @thebusyowl.bsky.social on the neglect of the self in psychiatry, and her Multitudinous Self Model. Next, Roy Dings and Derek Strijbos on how lived experience changes our responsiveness profile.

What a way to end the conference on expertise in mental health! Ian James Kidd discusses the hermeneutical frustrations in depression which can be understood phenomenologically and cautions against the use of the #epistemicinjustice framework in this context #philsky #philpsy

Very interesting talks by Mahony and Chevalier, & by Stephen Gadsby, on lived experience and participatory research in the context of anorexia nervosa: to what extent does the pursuit of thinness or the anorexia diagnosis become part of the person's identity? #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky

We were so happy to have the inspiring @lisabortolotti.com give a keynote at our conference today! Great to see how a combination of expertise-through-experience, philosophy and empirical study has resulted in concrete and substantial recommendations for avoiding epistemic injustice.

Tomorrow in Durham! www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Rethinking psychiatry: Upstate’s Şerife Tekin champions the human side of mental health | Upstate News | SUNY Upstate www.upstate.edu/news/article...

Happening today in Montreal! It is a hybrid event. www.lecre.umontreal.ca/en/event/aut...

On my way to Dallas for the Ian Hacking’s Philosophical Legacy Conference! values.utdallas.edu/2025/04/21/p...

Got this in the mail today, very excited to dig in #philsci #philsky @thebusyowl.bsky.social

Chatted with Amber Smith of the Informed Patient podcast. AI's use in mental health care offers promise and risk | The Informed Patient Podcast | SUNY Upstate www.upstate.edu/informed/202...

Here's my latest conversation, this time with Şerife Tekin PhD, @thebusyowl.bsky.social. We discuss her new book Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science (Routledge) which is out in April 2025. youtu.be/j6qb384btQo

Best way to avoid distresing news?? Turn off the portal, buckle up with an awesome book, freshly off the press, about what it means to live with mental distress and how to best to respond to it to lead a flourishing life; and learn that these can all be proper objects of scientific inquiry!

I am super happy to report that we received a SUNY grant to establish AI Center for Health Equity, Analytics and Diagnostics. I will move and shake the “Equity” part. www.upstate.edu/news/article...

My book is available for pre-order today! 20% off till the end of the month (and longer, ask me for a code). I genuinely hoped (and expressed to my publisher) the book to be affordable and Routledge did not disappoint ❤ Ask your libraries to order a copy. www.routledge.com/Reclaiming-t...

My book is available for pre-order today! 20% off till the end of the month (and longer, ask me for a code). I genuinely hoped (and expressed to my publisher) the book to be affordable and Routledge did not disappoint ❤ Ask your libraries to order a copy. www.routledge.com/Reclaiming-t...

Grateful for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and my critics (John Doris, Luc Faucher, and Tad Zawidzki) for a wonderful Author Meets Critics for my book. Cannot wait for it to drop next week!

I was interviewed by Salon, on AI Therapy. www.salon.com/2025/03/30/s...

A wonderful set of topics and speakers #philsci #philsky

Submit abstracts for a conference on Ian Hacking's Philosophical Legacy values.utdallas.edu/2024/12/27/2...

I was interviewed for a documentary on AI psychotherapy chatbots. I love the title. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_0...