Michelle Liu

Thank you so much Chenwei! 😀

From July till December this year, I will be taking up a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to work on word meaning and philosophical applications. @britishacademy.bsky.social I'm looking forward to living in London and reconnecting with colleagues in the UK and Europe!

New Philosophy Outreach Program: Philosophy Smash - Daily Nous A philosopher at the University of Birmingham, Henry Taylor, has a new philosophy outreach program. Philosophy Smash with Henry! aims to introduce children to philosophical questions. In the following...

Philosophy Smash with Henry is on Daily Nous!

dailynous.com/2025/05/27/n...

@saperep4c.bsky.social @ukri.org

"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."

My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
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A wonderful piece in the naturalistic section of philosophy compass, which I edit.

Listen to @michelleybliu.bsky.social's interview before, after, or while you read her new article on polysemy and philosophy.

Thanks to @edouardmachery.bsky.social for commissioning the piece, and thanks to everyone who provided feedback.

Polysemy and Philosophy Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polys....

My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

This month, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @michelleybliu.bsky.social. They discuss representing music in visual forms, whether arguments have aesthetic properties, and the role of mental imagery in poetry and philosophy. Follow the show and listen on your favourite podcast platform!

Solving the relevance problem with predictive processing The frame or relevance problem is a classic problem in cognitive science and philosophy. We attempt to resolve this problem by appealing to predictive processing, a growing theory of cognition. As ...

Frame and relevance problems from the perspective of predictive processing - new paper led by @monash-m3cs.bsky.social's Tom Darling #philsky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excellent paper on dehumanization by my wonderful colleague Suzy Killmister.

The Western media: drenched in Palestinian blood You are more likely to read the truth about Israel's crimes in an Israeli newspaper than you are in a Western media outlet.

The Western media will never be forgiven for their role in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/the-wester...

Excellent paper on chatbots and assertion by my colleagues Iwan Williams and Tim Bayne

‘As real as it ever gets’: Dennett’s conception of the mind | Aeon Essays Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought

An excellent crammer on Dan Dennett's philosophy, written by Tim Bayne in a lucid, lively style to rival Dennett's own.
"What needs to go is not so much folk psychology... but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it."
aeon.co/essays/as-re...

BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide “We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

Knowing What It Is Like Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like

My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...

I will be giving a talk on how language can transmit harmful mental imagery that shapes our episodic and semantic memories.

Heading to Shanghai this week for my first philosophy conference in China. Looking forward to the Shanghai-Grenoble Philosophy of Memory Workshop 2 phil-mem.org/events/2024-...

Monash Philosophy Departmental Workshop This is an in-person event only  Location: S109 Menzies Building, Clayton  Day 1, November 12th 10:30-11:30 Jenny Windt: A botanical metaphor for our wandering minds 11:30-12:30 Gene Flenady...

Monash philosophy departmental workshop next week (12th & 13th), featuring many of my wonderful colleagues philevents.org/event/show/1.... If you are in Melbourne, come along.