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Lisa Bortolotti
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Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology. More at: lisabortolotti.com

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Lisa Bortolotti is an Italian philosopher who is currently professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her work is in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences, including philosophy of psychology and philosophy of psychiatry, as well as bioethics and medical ethics. She was educated at the University of Bologna, King's College London, University of Oxford and the Australian National University, and worked briefly at the University of Manchester before beginning at Birmingham, where she has been a lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and now professor. .. more

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In Birmingham? Interested in human-robot relations? Join us for a film screening and philosophical discussion this March! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/ex-ma... #philsky #philosophymatters #philosophyforeveryone
Ex Machina: Film screening and panel discussion - University of Birmingham
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 1d
Latest papers: Giovanni Mariotti investigates the neurophysiological basis of autonomously induced mystical states of consciousness, with a focus on speculative mysticism doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 2d
Latest papers: Krzysztof Poslajko presents a plausible exposition of the broadly fictionalism intuitions that are often expressed in legal theory and economics regarding the attributions of mental states to corporations doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A corporate building

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 3d
CFP for a special issue of Argumenta, guest edited by @lisabortolotti.com & @lalumera.bsky.social:

THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE?

Deadline 30th of September.
THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE? - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy
The notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ...
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Imperfect Cognitions @imperfectcognitions.com · 4d
Todays post is by Daria Cybulska, Director of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK. Presenting an exploration of the role of emotion in conspiracy theory. What role does emotion play in driving tendency towards conspiratorial thinking?

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Daria Cybulska

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 5d
#skeetmyview Woke up in Narnia this morning ❄️⛄️🌨️
Snowy garden

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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 5d
Really grateful for a thoughtful and thorough review of my book by Seiara Imanova @seiaraimanova.bsky.social, just out in Philosophical Psychology! @journalphp.bsky.social
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Remembering the human in psychiatry: balancing science and humanism
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Laura D'Olimpio @lauradol4.bsky.social · 5d
My book, The Necessity of Aesthetic #Education, is now available as an affordable paperback!
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 5d
Latest papers: Kris Goffin & Alfred Archer argue that the use of AI applications to recognise people’s emotions risks bringing about tow forms of affective harm in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A person speaking with a chatbot

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 6d
"Many of the activities that give shape and significance to our lives depend on the capacity to remain committed to what we’ve chosen, even when justifications falter." Paul Katsafanas introduces @journalphp.bsky.social's special issue on #Devotion www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphp20/3... #philsky
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 6d
Leda Berio with What’s my motivation? Reputational motives, virtue signaling, and self-directed mindshaping
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Francesco Marchi on self-deception and automatic belief
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 6d
Our year in open access - January:

Jelle de Boer on Costly signaling in human sciences doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Arieh Schwartz with Are epistemic memory and episodic simulation different in kind?
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 7d
Latest papers: Sonia de Jager explores how psychedelic mystical experiences, frames as evolved allostatic adaptation, can be analysed as information exchanges between systems in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
Someone having a mystical experience

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 7d
Latest papers: Laura Danón aims to clarify which cognitive abilities should be considered critical to being a Popperian animal doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A New Caledonian crow

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 8d
Latest papers: Manuel Almagro & Carme Isern-Mas examine the tension of the increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations from a practice-focused approach to meaning doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
Two people talking

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 10d
Latest papers: Peter Slezak suggests that Dennett’ analysis of the “Cartesian Theater” metaphor must be modified to avoid two significant mistakes in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A cinema seat

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 10d
Latest papers: Marek Gurba argues that the strategy of one authors who argue that our numerical identity over time is irrelevant to practical issues is implausible doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A person’s silhouette with a question mark

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 11d
Happy new year to all our readers, reviewers, and authors!
2026 in gold on a green background

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Imperfect Cognitions @imperfectcognitions.com · 11d
Todays post is by David Simonin, director of "Homo Fabulator: the performativity of illusory representations", and editor of a new book (in French) on the power of stories. He asks, what if our illusions shaped reality more reliably than the truth?

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David Simonin

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 11d
Latest papers: Adriano Angelucci & Alberto Prini argue that an objection to the use of energy defaults, while motivated by shareable concerns, appears to rest on an overly demanding view of intellectual autonomy doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A person holding a placard that says ‘there is no planet b’

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 11d
On the #projectEPIC blog Parinika Arora discusses #epistemicinjustice in Indian mental healthcare across generations epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/06/betw... #philsky
Epistemic Injustice in Indian Mental Healthcare Across Generations
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 12d
"Public #philosophy stimulates & challenges, making participants better at those tasks that are inescapable for epistemic agents, such as evaluating competing explanations & managing disagreement in social contexts." #Philsky #edusky shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 12d
Cont. #ayearinreview #philsky #philosophyforeveryone Coauthored with Anna Ichino and @matteomameli.bsky.social, an open-access paper on philosophy for and by everyone with illustrations from Philosophy Museum in Milan and the Philosophy Garden shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-... Out today!
The trolley problem - an installation at the Philosophy Museum Conceptual plumbing - an installation at the Philosophy Museum Inside out,” artwork by Fabrizio Dusi. Donated to the Philosophy Museum. Jessica Sutherland and Kathleen Murphy-Hollies present the videos from the Philosophy Garden.

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 12d
Latest papers: José Carlos Camillo analyses recent empirical findings about memory traces and argues that although many of them favour Causalism and seem inconsistent with Simulationism, memory traces also provide data that are inconsistent with Causalism doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A person thinking. They have clouds around their head

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 13d
Latest papers: Monique Wonderly addresses devotion’s relationship to emotional attachment doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
Love hearts

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 15d
Latest papers: Mark S. Schwartz & David H. Saiia examines a key challenge of engaging in proposer ethical decision making, specifically the potential for moral rationalisation doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A handshake

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 16d
Latest papers: Qiantong Wu proposes a response to the Cassetter Theory based on an enactivist interpretation of dreaming experiences doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A person sleeping

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Imperfect Cognitions @imperfectcognitions.com · 17d
This week, Orestis Palermos introduces his new book Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics and the Law (Routledge 2025). He investigates the possible legal implications of the exteneded mind technologies, what happens when memories can be hacked?

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Cyborg Rights
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 17d
Latest papers: Marta Calbi & Chiara Cappelletto focus on the bodily habit of face mask-wearing in everyday life to test at what extent material artefacts exert a retroactive effect on bodily Self-consciousness, interwined as it is with face awareness doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A person wearing a face mask