Imperfect Cognitions

This post is by Nathália de Ávila (University of Cologne).Nathália de ÁvilaWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts. It is on this ample nourishment that they multiply so enormously. […] The spirits won’t starve, but we will perish.(Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenská)In 2025, the journal Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

This week's post is by Floriane Brunet (Service de pédopsychiatrie, CH de Saint Nazaire) and Christophe Gauld (Service de Psychopathologie du Développement de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant – Hospices Civils de Lyon). Floriane Brunet Christophe GauldToday, growing attention is being directed toward self-diagnostic practices among teenagers, a trend that may

In this blog post, Lisa Bortolotti presents a special issue of Philosophical Psychology on Daniel Dennett's philosophy.Daniel DennettIt is difficult to think of a philosopher whose influence has been so pervasive as Daniel Dennett's. This is amply demonstrated by the fact that the terms he coined, the metaphors he created, and the thought experiments he devised have become instant classics, are

This post is by Martina Rosola. Martina is a researcher in Philosophy of Language. Her main interest is the role of language in systems of injustice and how it can serve to either perpetuate or dismantle them. Within this perspective, she specialized in gender-fair language.Martina RosolaEvaluating gender-fair strategies in ItalianDo you want to avoid the masculine generic and struggle to

This post is by Grace Lockrobin, Co-director of Thoughtful.Resources for Philosophy for ChildrenOver the past few years, the charity established in 1992 as SAPERE, has undergone a metamorphosis. Our members and stakeholders agreed that we needed a new name that captures our commitment to the kind of dialogue that takes ideas seriously and treats interlocutors sensitively. In short, thoughtful

This week's post is by Enara Garcia, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark.  Enara Garcia In recent years, psychotherapy has become a central cultural reference point for understanding ourselves and regulating our distress. Yet the more therapy saturates public discourse, the more urgent it becomes to ask

This week's post is by Shao-Pu Kang, an assistant professor at National Tsing-Hua University, Graduate Institute of Philosophy, his recent publication Against an Epistemic Argument for Mineness in Review of Philosophy and Psychology.   Shao-Pu Kang Suppose you see a sunrise. You are thrilled, feel a chill in the air, hear your inner voice saying “that’s magnificent,” imagine

This post is by Víctor Fernández Castro (University of Granada) and Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo (University of Granada). It is based on their chapter “Embodied, embedded, enactive, extended… and exclusionary? Toward an inclusive E-Cognition for cognitive diversity,” published in Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition, which explores how 4E approaches can be made more inclusive of neurodiversity.

This post is by Pablo Andrés López Silva (University of Valparaíso) and Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo (University of Granada). It draws on their paper “A Roadmap to 4E Mental Health,” published in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, where they develop a 4E (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) framework for understanding mental health and psychopathology.       &

This post is by Michael Cholbi and Paolo Stellino. Michael Cholbi is Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimension and Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Paolo Stellino is a researcher at the NOVA University of Lisbon, and author of Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and

This weeks post is by Dr. Lena Wimmer, University of Würzburg. Presenting her recent paper Why Disinformation, Fake News, and Conspiracy Theories are not Fiction: A View From Philosophical Aesthetics and Literary Studies published in Review of Philosophy and PsychologyLena Wimmer  Not just in everyday conversations, but also in academic discussions, unreliable information –

 Today’s post is by Brady Wagoner, Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University, Denmark. He published a recent article in Current Opinion in Psychology, together with Maja Sødinge Jørgensen and Kirstine Pahuus, titled “Conspiracy theories through the lens of collective memory”.  Brady Wagoner In psychology, conspiracy theories are often treated as

This post is by Anna Mameli, who attends secondary school and volunteers for The Philosophy Garden as part of her Duke of Edinburgh silver award. Anna reports on a paper recently published in a special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie on philosophy in the public sphere.Conceptual plumbing, an installation at the Philosophy MuseumWhat are employers looking for? What do you need to

This weeks post is by Marta Jorba (Pompeu Fabra University), Valentina Petrolini (University of Bologna), and Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele). Presenting their recent paper open access 'Person-first and identity-first approaches to Autism: metaphysical and linguistic implications' in Synthese.Marta Jorba“I am not a ‘person with autism’. I am an autistic person”.

This week, we welcome Daniel Vespermann (Heidelberg University) and Sanna Karoliina Tirkkonen (University of Helsinki) to present their recent paper Existential injustice in phenomenological psychopathology in Philosophical Psychology. Sanna Karoliina Tirkkonen In our paper “Existential injustice in phenomenological psychopathology”, we discuss a particular type of affective

This week's post is by Alexander Edlich, and Alfred Archer and is based on their paper Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice. Alexander Edlich's work focuses on ethics, social philosophy, and moral responsibility. He is the author of The Scope of Moral Protest: Beyond Blame and Responsibility (Springer, 2025) and research papers in different areas of ethics and social

Todays post is by Manuel Almagro (University of Valencia) and Carme Isern-Mas (University of the Balearic Islands), presenting their recent paper 'Blunting concepts: The double-edged effect of popularizing psychotherapy language' (Philosophical Psychology).Manuel AlmagroIn the last week, a friend might have described a harmful and impactful past experience as “traumatic”, talked about their “OCD”

This weeks post is by Kristina Šekrst, a researcher and engineer working at the crossroads of logic, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. She is sharing an introduction to her new book The Illusion Engine: The Quest for Machine Consciousness (Springer Nature, 2025).Kristina ŠekrstThe Illusion Engine began with a simple question: how could machines ever think? It quickly