Chenwei Nie
@chenweinie.com
leverhulme early career fellow @ university of warwick.
philosophy of psychiatry • philosophy of mind • epistemology
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/nie/
philosophy of psychiatry • philosophy of mind • epistemology
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/nie/
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Chenwei Nie
@chenweinie.com
· May 15
Why do we sometimes believe something against the evidence?
My recent paper in AJP proposes a new explanation, suggesting that it may be 'caused' by harmful #seemings.
↪️ doi.org/10.1080/0004...
#Philsky
My recent paper in AJP proposes a new explanation, suggesting that it may be 'caused' by harmful #seemings.
↪️ doi.org/10.1080/0004...
#Philsky
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A new issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research is out, featuring my article on moral concerns about the corruptive effects of imagination in games/VR.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19331592...
You can read a short summary here:
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/imaginativ...
#philtech
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19331592...
You can read a short summary here:
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/imaginativ...
#philtech
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A new issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research is out, featuring my article on moral concerns about the corruptive effects of imagination in games/VR.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19331592...
You can read a short summary here:
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/imaginativ...
#philtech
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19331592...
You can read a short summary here:
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/imaginativ...
#philtech
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Finally announced on the @springernature.com website my new book on #metaphors and their #embodied nature in shaping our #thinking, #feeling, #perception and more.
Very personal note: the book is dedicated to my dear colleague and Riccardo, who died 6 months after we signed the contract ❤️
Very personal note: the book is dedicated to my dear colleague and Riccardo, who died 6 months after we signed the contract ❤️
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Finally announced on the @springernature.com website my new book on #metaphors and their #embodied nature in shaping our #thinking, #feeling, #perception and more.
Very personal note: the book is dedicated to my dear colleague and Riccardo, who died 6 months after we signed the contract ❤️
Very personal note: the book is dedicated to my dear colleague and Riccardo, who died 6 months after we signed the contract ❤️
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Talking to a monk is fine, as long as one does not think that their opinion will be representative of the whole of the theology they are part of.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Talking to a monk is fine, as long as one does not think that their opinion will be representative of the whole of the theology they are part of.
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In this week's Junkyard post, Julia Minarik offers reasons to think that "machine-made images have less content than images created by human hands."
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Julia Minarik junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...
The Text-Conditioned Image — The Junkyard
A post by Julia Minarik And someday there will be a more complete machine. One’s thoughts or feelings during life – or while the machine is recording – will be like an alphabet with which the image ...
junkyardofthemind.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In this week's Junkyard post, Julia Minarik offers reasons to think that "machine-made images have less content than images created by human hands."
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Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know
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The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan
| Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
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Super happy to receive my first paper in French, with @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social and @matteomameli.bsky.social, on confabulation and conspiracy theories, in a book entitled “Les fables de l’homme”. Thanks David Simonin for leading the project and translating the paper. #philsky #philpsy
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Super happy to receive my first paper in French, with @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social and @matteomameli.bsky.social, on confabulation and conspiracy theories, in a book entitled “Les fables de l’homme”. Thanks David Simonin for leading the project and translating the paper. #philsky #philpsy
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Obsessed with the cover of the Chinese edition of my book!!
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Obsessed with the cover of the Chinese edition of my book!!
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During this month in 1887, the public first learned of the investigative exploits of the amateur detective, Sherlock Holmes.
The first memoir of one of his cases, penned by his colleague Dr. John Watson, was published as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual.
#BookSky
The first memoir of one of his cases, penned by his colleague Dr. John Watson, was published as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual.
#BookSky
November 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
During this month in 1887, the public first learned of the investigative exploits of the amateur detective, Sherlock Holmes.
The first memoir of one of his cases, penned by his colleague Dr. John Watson, was published as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual.
#BookSky
The first memoir of one of his cases, penned by his colleague Dr. John Watson, was published as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual.
#BookSky
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In July-September 2025 we had over 90000 downloads which is more than double the downloads in the same quarter of 2022. Hopefully we continue to publish the papers you want to read!
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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My invited op-ed on the subject of "AI psychosis" at @bmj.com
Have a read:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Have a read:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Can AI chatbots validate delusional thinking?
The extent to which AI chatbots have a causal role in delusions and delusion-like beliefs remains unclear, writes Joseph M Pierre
Reports of people having delusions that were seemingly fuelled by ge...
www.bmj.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My invited op-ed on the subject of "AI psychosis" at @bmj.com
Have a read:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Have a read:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
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My new article on lived experience research. I criticise Bhaskar as a philosophical foundation. I argue that seeing psychiatric diagnoses as idealised and abstract models leads to a pluralistic relationship between lived experience and diagnoses #philsci #hps #philpsy #sts #livedexperience
Project MUSE - The Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnoses in Lived Experience Research
muse.jhu.edu
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My new article on lived experience research. I criticise Bhaskar as a philosophical foundation. I argue that seeing psychiatric diagnoses as idealised and abstract models leads to a pluralistic relationship between lived experience and diagnoses #philsci #hps #philpsy #sts #livedexperience
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MindGrad Deadline Extension:
The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October!
Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...
#philsky #philconf #philosophy
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October!
Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...
#philsky #philconf #philosophy
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
MindGrad Deadline Extension:
The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October!
Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...
#philsky #philconf #philosophy
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October!
Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...
#philsky #philconf #philosophy
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
This paper is now assigned to an issue. The dark side of clarity. Southern Journal of Philosophy. 63(3): 429-443. doi.org/10.1111/sjp....
October 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This paper is now assigned to an issue. The dark side of clarity. Southern Journal of Philosophy. 63(3): 429-443. doi.org/10.1111/sjp....
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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I got off academia dot edu 5 or so years ago, when I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me - I found out when a very senior member of the profession replied to one. It's only gone further and further done this path since, as far as I can tell.
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I got off academia dot edu 5 or so years ago, when I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me - I found out when a very senior member of the profession replied to one. It's only gone further and further done this path since, as far as I can tell.
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Thinking Together, freshly published version. academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...
Thinking Together
AbstractWhat would it be for one person to think with another? How should we understand the idea of people thinking together and so sharing their thinking
academic.oup.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thinking Together, freshly published version. academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...
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Knowledge as a Capacity: Ryle and Cook Wilson. Draft: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil...
warwick.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Knowledge as a Capacity: Ryle and Cook Wilson. Draft: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil...
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My new article, "Calling Trauma, Elite Capture, and Hermeneutical Injustice," is out in Phil Quarterly!
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
September 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My new article, "Calling Trauma, Elite Capture, and Hermeneutical Injustice," is out in Phil Quarterly!
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
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Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊
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Great to be at the conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy in Turin! I talked about attributions of responsibility and implications of blame in mental health interactions #philsky #agencyprojects
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Great to be at the conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy in Turin! I talked about attributions of responsibility and implications of blame in mental health interactions #philsky #agencyprojects
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📣 New publication! 📣
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
Schopenhauer’s worst of all possible worlds
Few are persuaded by Schopenhauer’s argument that ours is the worst of all possible worlds. In this paper, I propose and defend an alternative reading of Schopenhauer’s argument. According to my re...
www.tandfonline.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
📣 New publication! 📣
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social