Frances Egan
@francesegan.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Rutgers University; Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science. Now living in south Texas
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accuracy-first epiceries
Trump on Mamdani: "We had some interesting conversation and some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have. But a big thing on cost. The new word is 'affordability.' Another word is just 'groceries.' It's sort of an old fashioned word but it's very accurate."
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
accuracy-first epiceries
some unexpected visitors this morning
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
some unexpected visitors this morning
Ken Aizawa's excellent new book is now available, open access:
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www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
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November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ken Aizawa's excellent new book is now available, open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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...
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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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🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What motivates mental fictionalism?
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My brother, Sean Egan , and nephew Francis, opening the Toronto Stock Exchange this morning, on Global Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Recognizing Sean's work on breast cancer.
October 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
My brother, Sean Egan , and nephew Francis, opening the Toronto Stock Exchange this morning, on Global Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Recognizing Sean's work on breast cancer.
Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...
RIP Brian Cantwell Smith. His work should be much better known.
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
Brian Cantwell Smith : "The philosophy of computation: meaning, mechanism, mystery"
Dailymotion video by Alexandre Monnin
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September 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
RIP Brian Cantwell Smith. His work should be much better known.
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
RIP. Very sad… his work should be much better known.
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
Brian Cantwell Smith : "The philosophy of computation: meaning, mechanism, mystery"
Dailymotion video by Alexandre Monnin
www.dailymotion.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
RIP. Very sad… his work should be much better known.
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l
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Academic conferences should do "Authors-Meet-Haters" sessions
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Academic conferences should do "Authors-Meet-Haters" sessions
the weather at the top of the Col du Tourmalet today was very similar to the 2010 Tour de France, when we were there
July 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
the weather at the top of the Col du Tourmalet today was very similar to the 2010 Tour de France, when we were there
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Thanks to Carrie Figdor for having me on her New Books in Philosophy podcast to talk about my book!
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Şerife Tekin,
Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 06/10/2025 · 1h 4m
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July 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thanks to Carrie Figdor for having me on her New Books in Philosophy podcast to talk about my book!
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New paper is out! This one is in analytic metaphysics of mind--I'm branching out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The multiple action account of filling a role - Philosophical Studies
Philosophical Studies - Functionalism, the doctrine that tokens realize types in virtue of filling a functional role, remains a dominant view in the metaphysics of mind and of science. At the heart...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
New paper is out! This one is in analytic metaphysics of mind--I'm branching out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
For anyone interested in the minds and social lives of wild animals, and in the moral and practical problems involved in trying to preserve their natural habitat. Available from Amazon and Apple books. www.amazon.com/Gift-Oryx-Ca...
June 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For anyone interested in the minds and social lives of wild animals, and in the moral and practical problems involved in trying to preserve their natural habitat. Available from Amazon and Apple books. www.amazon.com/Gift-Oryx-Ca...
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Next was an excellent discussion on representations in minds and brains on the Brain Inspired podcast with Luis Favela, @edouardmachery.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, Rosa Cao, and John Krakauer. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LM... (7/10)
BI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains
YouTube video by Brain Inspired
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June 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Next was an excellent discussion on representations in minds and brains on the Brain Inspired podcast with Luis Favela, @edouardmachery.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, Rosa Cao, and John Krakauer. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LM... (7/10)
Wishing Mark Carney success in tonight’s debate, in French, with trumpian Pierre Poilievre 🇨🇦
April 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Wishing Mark Carney success in tonight’s debate, in French, with trumpian Pierre Poilievre 🇨🇦
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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My book is available for pre-order today! 20% off till the end of the month (and longer, ask me for a code). I genuinely hoped (and expressed to my publisher) the book to be affordable and Routledge did not disappoint ❤ Ask your libraries to order a copy.
www.routledge.com/Reclaiming-t...
www.routledge.com/Reclaiming-t...
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuance...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My book is available for pre-order today! 20% off till the end of the month (and longer, ask me for a code). I genuinely hoped (and expressed to my publisher) the book to be affordable and Routledge did not disappoint ❤ Ask your libraries to order a copy.
www.routledge.com/Reclaiming-t...
www.routledge.com/Reclaiming-t...
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Very happy that my paper on generic memory has just been published (open access).
#philosophy
#philsky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philosophy
#philsky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Annual Birthday Party: Remembering Recurring Events from One's Past - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
The paper focuses on the particular nature of the content of so-called generic memories, especially those of recurrent events from one's past. This way of remembering has two central features that see...
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March 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Very happy that my paper on generic memory has just been published (open access).
#philosophy
#philsky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philosophy
#philsky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Congratulations to my brilliant graduate student, Andrew Rubner, for landing a TT job at UNC (among several others). He is deferring his start date at UNC to Fall 2026 to complete another year of his Bersoff postdoc at NYU. It was a pleasure being his supervisor!
March 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations to my brilliant graduate student, Andrew Rubner, for landing a TT job at UNC (among several others). He is deferring his start date at UNC to Fall 2026 to complete another year of his Bersoff postdoc at NYU. It was a pleasure being his supervisor!
Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)
March 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)
Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.
March 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.