Imperfect Cognitions

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

Today's post is by Helene Cæcilie Mørck, co-written with her fellow authors, in which they address their latest article, For a Choreography of Emotions: Spatiotemporal Phenomenology, published in Psychopathology on July 28, 2025. Helene Cæcilie Mørck Helene Cæcilie Mørck I draw on my twenty years as a choreographer, as well as my lifelong lived experience with altered states

 This post is by Annalisa Coliva, Chancellor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and editor-in-chief of the Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy.What does it mean to be a woman? Philosophers, feminists, and activists have debated this for decades, often clashing over whether “woman” should be defined biologically, socially, or politically. In recent work (Coliva

This post is by Daria Cybulska (Poland/UK), who is the Director of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK, leading programmes and advocacy for knowledge equity and information literacy. Daria is a trustee at Global Dialogue, a platform for human rights philanthropy, and in 2023/24 was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, investigating Central Asia’s online civil society and its resilience responses

This post is by David Simonin, director of the project entitled "Homo Fabulator: the performativity of illusory representations" (HomoFab), and editor of a new book (in French) on the power of stories. The book is called Les Fables de l'Homme (Human Fables) (Éditions Kimé 2025).Book cover for Human Fables (2025)What if our illusions shaped reality more reliably than the truth? In the age of

This post is by Orestis Palermos who is the author of Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics and the Law (Routledge 2025).Book cover of Cyborg RightsFor most of human history, the privacy and integrity of the mind—its freedom from intrusion and manipulation—has been taken for granted. Dark practices such as torture, brainwashing, or aggressive propaganda have always existed. Yet in times of

This post is by Elly Vintiadis who recently guest-edited a special issue of Philosophical Psychology on psychedelic-assisted therapy and wrote a free access introduction to the special issue entitled The Promises and Perils of the Psychedlic Turn in Psychiatry.Elly VintiadisPsychedelic substances have been part of human culture for centuries, used in ritual, healing and spiritual contexts to