Jonathan Mitchell
@mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social
Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University
Mind; Phenomenology; Perception; Emotions
Also: bread, beer, and Bob Dylan!
Mind; Phenomenology; Perception; Emotions
Also: bread, beer, and Bob Dylan!
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#philsky
30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
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30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
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www.mixcloud.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
#philsky
30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
::
30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
::
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This evening! #philsky
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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Perception Under Threat - Frédérique de Vignemont
YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This evening! #philsky
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Raquel Krempel discusses her work aiming to better understand aphantasic experience. This draws on studies she conducted (w/ collaborators) that compared aphantasics and controls when they were asked to describe their experiences trying to imagine and trying to remember something.
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Raquel Krempel junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...
What is it like to have aphantasia? — The Junkyard
A post by Raquel Krempel Imagine an apple. Nothing happened? You probably have aphantasia. This is a common way of introducing and thinking about aphantasia. On the web, images such as Figure 1 (bel...
junkyardofthemind.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Raquel Krempel discusses her work aiming to better understand aphantasic experience. This draws on studies she conducted (w/ collaborators) that compared aphantasics and controls when they were asked to describe their experiences trying to imagine and trying to remember something.
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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Perception Under Threat - Frédérique de Vignemont
YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
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‘November always seems to me the Norway of the year.’ ~ Emily Dickinson.
Autumn, Konstantin Gorbatov, 1910.
Autumn, Konstantin Gorbatov, 1910.
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
‘November always seems to me the Norway of the year.’ ~ Emily Dickinson.
Autumn, Konstantin Gorbatov, 1910.
Autumn, Konstantin Gorbatov, 1910.
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🎈Book launch!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🎈Book launch!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
Synopsis of my forthcoming book on visual experience, horizons, spatial perception, phenomenology, and much more!
www.academia.edu/142898251/A_...
www.academia.edu/142898251/A_...
A Sense of the Possible: The Horizons of Visual Experience
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the role that 'intentional horizons' play in our visual experiences of complete three-dimensional objects. In doing so it critically evaluates a range ...
www.academia.edu
July 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Synopsis of my forthcoming book on visual experience, horizons, spatial perception, phenomenology, and much more!
www.academia.edu/142898251/A_...
www.academia.edu/142898251/A_...
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Early Phenomenology.
January 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Early Phenomenology.
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"Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. In order to write... the first essential condition is that reality should no longer be taken for granted; only then can one both perceive it and make others do so."
~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life / La Force de l'age
~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life / La Force de l'age
December 16, 2024 at 6:31 PM
"Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. In order to write... the first essential condition is that reality should no longer be taken for granted; only then can one both perceive it and make others do so."
~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life / La Force de l'age
~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life / La Force de l'age
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I’m fully biased as one of the organisers, but EPSSE is a wonderful space for nerding out about emotions! AND we get to go to Paris this year ✨
CFP open until 7 January - send us your feels 😌😉😒😣🤬😱🤭🫠😶
#philosophy #philsky
CFP open until 7 January - send us your feels 😌😉😒😣🤬😱🤭🫠😶
#philosophy #philsky
The next EPSSE conference will be in Paris, on 13th to 15th June 2025—locally organised by a great team at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The call for abstracts (individual papers, panels, symposia) is open until 7th January. More information here ⬇️ #philsky #philosophy www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts | EPSSE
www.epsse.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:24 AM
I’m fully biased as one of the organisers, but EPSSE is a wonderful space for nerding out about emotions! AND we get to go to Paris this year ✨
CFP open until 7 January - send us your feels 😌😉😒😣🤬😱🤭🫠😶
#philosophy #philsky
CFP open until 7 January - send us your feels 😌😉😒😣🤬😱🤭🫠😶
#philosophy #philsky
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Stealing some time this morning to read my brilliant colleague @sarahafisher.bsky.social’s paper on how LLMs bullshit (and also why they do not have to do so!) 💫
#philsky #philosophy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsky #philosophy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Large language models and their big bullshit potential - Ethics and Information Technology
Newly powerful large language models have burst onto the scene, with applications across a wide range of functions. We can now expect to encounter their outputs at rapidly increasing volumes and frequ...
link.springer.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Stealing some time this morning to read my brilliant colleague @sarahafisher.bsky.social’s paper on how LLMs bullshit (and also why they do not have to do so!) 💫
#philsky #philosophy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsky #philosophy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Some of you may be interested in this post by Ori Freiman on chatbot regulation for Open for Debate #philosophy
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
Philosophical Foundations for Chatbot Regulation
In an age where we increasingly converse with artifacts – whose interfaces include AI, a pressing question emerges: Who, or what, are we really talking with? As AI-based chatbots, often terme…
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Some of you may be interested in this post by Ori Freiman on chatbot regulation for Open for Debate #philosophy
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
Bob Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Morning bakes!
December 9, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Morning bakes!
Monday’s Sourdough
December 9, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Monday’s Sourdough
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December 7, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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3-year postdoc on the philosophy of multisensory perception with Błażej Skrzypulec at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, project 'Ontology of multisensory unification'.
Details of the position and project description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833
#PhilJobs
Details of the position and project description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833
#PhilJobs
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (post-doc), Faculty of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science in the field of philosophy
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Employment duration: 36 monthsProject title: Ontology of multisensory unification
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 PM
3-year postdoc on the philosophy of multisensory perception with Błażej Skrzypulec at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, project 'Ontology of multisensory unification'.
Details of the position and project description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833
#PhilJobs
Details of the position and project description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833
#PhilJobs
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I thoroughly enjoyed discussing the philosophical ideas of James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre at How The Light Gets In a couple of months ago.
And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production.
#philsky
iai.tv/video/sartre...
And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production.
#philsky
iai.tv/video/sartre...
Sartre vs Baldwin: The unknown other
We take it for granted that through language and communication we can learn about the experience of others. But it remains unknown whether we can fully know what it is like to be another human being. ...
iai.tv
December 1, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed discussing the philosophical ideas of James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre at How The Light Gets In a couple of months ago.
And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production.
#philsky
iai.tv/video/sartre...
And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production.
#philsky
iai.tv/video/sartre...
Sourdough Sunday….
December 1, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Sourdough Sunday….
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Philosophy has long ignored the senses, missing their complexity, role in our everyday lives, and their impact on our consciousness and reality, argues @barrycsmith.bsky.social
Watch his talk here: https://buff.ly/3V8RKjJ
#philosophy #consciousness
Watch his talk here: https://buff.ly/3V8RKjJ
#philosophy #consciousness
The puzzle of perception with Barry C. Smith
Explore the fascinating link between consciousness and the senses with philosopher Barry Smith. In this engaging discussion on IAI TV, Smith delves into how our sensory experiences shape our understanding of the world and ourselves, offering fresh insights into perception, reality, and human awareness.
Keywords: Barry Smith, consciousness and senses, philosophy of perception, sensory experience, understanding reality.
buff.ly
November 30, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Philosophy has long ignored the senses, missing their complexity, role in our everyday lives, and their impact on our consciousness and reality, argues @barrycsmith.bsky.social
Watch his talk here: https://buff.ly/3V8RKjJ
#philosophy #consciousness
Watch his talk here: https://buff.ly/3V8RKjJ
#philosophy #consciousness
Ever wondered what Husserl and the other phenomenologists mean by 'horizons', especially in visual experience? Then look no further!
Also: If anyone wants a quick precis of the book I'm working on then this article pretty much does that.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Also: If anyone wants a quick precis of the book I'm working on then this article pretty much does that.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Horizonal Structure of Visual Experience
How is it that we can visually experience complete three-dimensional objects despite being limited, in any given perceptual moment, to perceiving the sides facing us from a specific spatial perspec...
www.tandfonline.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Ever wondered what Husserl and the other phenomenologists mean by 'horizons', especially in visual experience? Then look no further!
Also: If anyone wants a quick precis of the book I'm working on then this article pretty much does that.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Also: If anyone wants a quick precis of the book I'm working on then this article pretty much does that.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"All that is real in human #history becomes irrational in the process of time."
✒ #FriedrichEngels, German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with #KarlMarx, was #BOTD 28 November 1820. #Politics #Philosophy
✒ #FriedrichEngels, German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with #KarlMarx, was #BOTD 28 November 1820. #Politics #Philosophy
November 28, 2024 at 12:58 AM
"All that is real in human #history becomes irrational in the process of time."
✒ #FriedrichEngels, German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with #KarlMarx, was #BOTD 28 November 1820. #Politics #Philosophy
✒ #FriedrichEngels, German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with #KarlMarx, was #BOTD 28 November 1820. #Politics #Philosophy