Sarah Robins

Exciting updates at The Memory Palace this week: The Palacio is expanding, O Palácio da Memória is starting, and Le Palais de la Mémoire is coming soon!

Join us at Purdue to launch the Cognition, Agency, Intelligence Center with a brilliant group of speakers over two days on April 2-3 🥳🧠🤖

Recently did a super fun interview with Jorge Cham (creator of PhD comics) on memory for his podcast Science Stuff

We talked about his graphic novel series,and he sent Max autographed copies of the books!

Oliver’s Great Big Universe is an instant hit over here! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thanks to those who participated in PhOMO's group session at the APA in Chicago last week! Wonderful talks by Adex, Matheus, and Marya on reference, the personal past condition, and accuracy. Looking forward to the next one already

Today at the Palace, Ege Selin Islekel (Texas A&M) has us digging through the “memory rubble”: what persists from our memories of place when the place is altered or destroyed? A great read about the implications of this form of memory for rebuilding and recovering from collective trauma.
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Paid to nap?!

Episodic memory as a source of the forms of sociality unique to humans? Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY) is at the Palace today, exploring this account of episodic memory’s function. Check it out!
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Bergson’s view of memory has largely been lost in recent philosophical discussion Doudja Boumaza is at the Palace today, with a strong case for bringing him back!

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Charlotte Harmon is a Purdue undergrad who has been working this year as an editorial assistant for The Memory Palace. Her interactions with the Palacio translation team inspired her to interview them on how language and translation impact the philosophy of memory. A great start to our 2026 season!

CAIC’s been baking all year, and now we’re ready to celebrate! 🎂🎂🎂

Our first workshop is in April, with an absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 lineup. Stay tuned for more details and join us if you can!

It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th

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The mirror as a site for learning and memory. Antonella Tramacere (Roma Tre University) is at The Memory Palace today, adding layers of nuance to how we think about what's reflected when we look in the mirror.

A wonderfully rich way to wrap up our 2025 posts. See you in 2026!
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🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠

For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc

(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)

10 more days to submit extended abstracts for IPM5
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Avoid FOMO; join PhOMO!
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Representational Momentum Transcends Motion Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

This Friday at the CAIC Brown Bag @eduede.bsky.social and Daniel Friedman will present their paper "How (Not) to Attribute LLM Mental States" 🤖🧠

Kathy Puddifoot (Durham) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing Mnemonic Injustice and the ways that the structure and use of our memory systems can wrong others around us. A provocative read; highly recommend!
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🚨 Call for Papers!
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory

RUB, 18–20 Feb 2026

Apply by 30 November!
Submit here 👉https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9

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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 (IPM5) Papers on all aspects of the philosophy of memory are welcome. Anonymized abstracts of 600-750 words (does not include references) should be submitted using this google form: https://forms.gle/GRjyz3z...

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PhOMO - IPM5 Philosophy of Memory Organization

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Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026

Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!

Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

Juan Diego Bogotá (Jyväskylä) is at The Palace today, asking how groups share knowledge of their collective past and whether it warrants the title "collective memory." Juan has translated his thought-provoking post, so it's available simultaneously on the Palacio. Enjoy!
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@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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After science Twenty-five years ago, Ted Chiang wrote a prescient science fiction short that began: “It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, makin...

New piece w/ James Evans in Science explores what we call 'science after science', an era where our ability to control nature may exceed our ability to understand it; a new struggle to sustain curiosity & understanding under AI's predictive dominance. #ai #science

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Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!

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I missed this the first time around, glad I caught this - excited to read!

Voices of change: Leadership’s role in the rise of social movements Many sparks fail to start fires where conditions seem right, while others flare up into fires where nobody would have expected. Few movements in recent history provide as good an example of this as t…

Discover how greater gender parity and the growth of female leadership across Latin America created the conditions for a successful social movement, in this illuminating case study from Somebody Should Do Something

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Next week in San Diego!

🔥 New Publication: @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social has a book chapter titled "Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence" forthcoming in 'Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations'

Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE