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Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience (2)
This blog post is by Zsuzsanna Chappell. Zsuzsanna is an independent scholar and research associate at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics. She...
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Reichenau Summer School: Dealing with Uncertainty
In today's post I report on the Summer School in Reichenau which I had the pleasure to attend on 25th and 26th August 2023. The theme was Belief, meaning, knowledge: how we deal with uncertainty....
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Remembering requires no reliability
This post is by Changsheng Lai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). Changsheng LaiYou believe that you locked the door before you left your house, but do you really remember that? Your belief about the...
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Silence
This post is by Dan Degerman, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, soon to join the new project EPIC (Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare), funded by a Wellcome Discovery...
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Introspection in the Disordered Mind and the Superintrospectionitis Thesis
This blog post is by Alexandre Billon who presents his argument in a paper recently published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. This paper is a commentary on Kammerer and Frankish's article on...
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Is OCD Epistemically Irrational?
Today’s post is by Pablo Hubacher Haerle on his recent paper “Is OCD Epistemically Irrational?” (Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 2023). Pablo Hubacher Haerle is a PhD student at the University of...
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Addressing Autistic Mental Health from the First Person
Today's post is by Themistoklis Pantazakos and Gert-Jan Vanaken. Themistoklis (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Psychiatry at The American College of Greece and an Honorary Research...
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On the Origin of Conspiracy Theories
The blog post today is by Patrick Brooks (Rutgers University) on his recent paper, "On the origin of conspiracy theories" (Philosophical Studies, 2023).Patrick BrooksIn the last, say, 20 years or so, a...
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The case of poor postpartum mental health: a consequence of an evolutionary...
Today's post is by Orli Dahan (Tel-Hai College) on her recent paper, "The case of poor postpartum mental health: a consequence of an evolutionary mismatch–not of an evolutionary trade-off" (Biology...
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Receptive Publics
Today's post is by Joshua Habgood-Coote and Nadja El Kassar on their recent paper, Receptive Publics (Ergo, forthcoming). Joshua Habgood-Coote is a research fellow at the school of philosophy,...
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The Sense of Existence
Today's post is by Alexandre Billon (Université de Lille) on his recent paper, "The Sense of Existence" (Ergo 2023).Alexandre BillonThings we perceive typically seem to be real to us. Unlike Bigfoot...
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The Know-How of Virtue
This post is by Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, on her recent paper 'The Know-How of Virtue', published open-access in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Kathleen Murphy-HolliesHow can we be good people who...
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Concept Revision, Concept Application and the Role of Intuitions in Gettier...
Today's post is by Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw) on his recent paper, Concept Revision, Concept Application and the Role of Intuitions in Gettier Cases (Episteme, 2022).Krzysztof...
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Why Human Nature Matters
We celebrate Darwin Day (12th February) with a post by Matteo Mameli (King’s College London) on his new monograph, Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics (Bloomsbury 2024). In the book,...
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Symbolic Belief in Social Cognition
The post today is by Evan Westra (Purdue University) on his recent paper "Symbolic Belief in Social Cognition" (Philosophical Perspectives, 2023). Evan WestraIf you go up to an ordinary person on the...
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Anorexia Nervosa and Delusions – What Can We Learn?
Today’s post is from Kyle De Young and Lindsay Rettler on their recent paper, “Causal Connections between Anorexia Nervosa and Delusional Beliefs” (published in Review of Psychology and Philosophy in...
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Loneliness as a closure of the affordance space: The case of COVID-19 pandemic
This post is by Susana Ramírez-Vizcaya, who is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She works in embodied cognitive...
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The Psychology of Pseudoscience
Stefaan Blancke is a philosopher of science at the department of Philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a member of the Tilburg Center for Moral Philosophy, Epistemology and Philosophy...
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Stakes of knowing the truth: the case of a “miracle” treatment against Covid-19
Tiffany Morisseau is a researcher in Cognitive Psychology at the Laboratory of Applied Psychology and Ergonomics (LaPEA, University of Paris). Her current research projects mainly focus on the question...
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Disentangling the relationship between conspiratorial beliefs and cognitive...
This post is by Biljana Gjoneska, who is is a national representative and research associate from the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Here, she discusses her paper in the Psychology of...
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Trust Responsibly
This post is by Jakob Ohlhorst, who is a postdoc fellow on the Extreme Beliefs project at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. This post is about his recent book, Trust Responsibly (Routledge), which is...
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Addressing Epistemic Injustice: Perspectives from Health Law and Bioethics
This post is by Lisa Bortolotti who reports on a symposium was organised by Mark Flear to explore interdisciplinary perspectives (law, philosophy of psychiatry, bioethics, sociology, and more) on...
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Philosophy of Mental Disorder: An Ability-Based Approach
This post is by Sanja Dembić. Sanja is a research associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a member of the “Human Abilities” Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Here, she discusses...
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Experiences of Loss conference report
In this post, Kathleen reports from the 'Experiences of Loss' Conference which took place on the 26th and 27th October 2023, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The conference was organised and ran by...
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What does it mean for a robot to be cultured?
This post is by Henry Taylor, who is a philosopher at the University of Birmingham. He is interested in in the philosophy of mind. His main areas of research in the area are attention, consciousness,...
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