Lisa Bortolotti

Rosa

Ellie

Delighted that two fantastic researchers and women in philosophy, Rosa Ritunnano and Eleanor Palafox-Harris, have recently submitted their PhD theses! I will miss meeting them and reading their work but I am excited about what they will do next… #philsky #philpsy #epistemicinjustice

Lake and trees

Harbour and ducks

Lakeside #skeetyourview

Perri Sriwannawit

Is love beyond our control? This week, we're exited to have Perri Sriwannawit presenting an aspect of her recent PhD thesis. Exploring this question through the work of Harry Frankfurt and Natasha McKeever. What agency do we have in the face of love?

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imperfectcognitions....

Four exciting new papers on mental health and psychiatry in our #vol38issue6 🧵 #openaccess #philpsy #philsky #philsci

The Case for Epistemic Justice in Mental Health Nurse Education

Today on the #projectEPIC blog Jane Fisher makes the case for epistemic justice in mental health nursing #philsky #EpistemicInjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare: The Case for Epistemic Justice in Mental Health Nurse Education

The matching problem for evolutionary psychiatry Evolutionary psychiatry suggests that mental disorders can be explained in evolutionary terms (a) as failures of psychological mechanisms to produce the adaptive effects for which they were natural...

my paper "the matching problem for evolutionary psychiatry" now has an issue number
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sun rising on the beach

Orange sky reflected on the water

Sunrise on the beach #skeetyourview

Memory, anticipation, and future-bias One proposed explanation for a particular kind of temporal preference lies in a disparity between the emotional intensity of memory compared to anticipation. According to the memory/anticipation di...

Andrew J. Latham, Kristie Miller, James Norton, Shen Pan & Rasmus Pedersen investigate memory, anticipation and future bias doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Norm-induced forgetting: when social norms induce us to forget Sometimes subjects have sufficient internal and external resources to retrieve information stored in memory, in particular information that carries socially charged content. Yet, they fail to do so...

Marta Caravà discusses the case of social norms making us forget (this article is also part of an online thematic collection on understanding memory) doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Two exciting papers on #memory and #forgetting in #vol38issue6 🧵 #philsky #philpsy

Incompatible ≠ incommensurable

Agree. Let editors know.

First Workshop in the Philosophy of Psychiatry in Chile A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

Philosophy of psychiatry is a rapidly developing field, in April the first dedicated academic event of the field happened in Chile. Organized by the Universidad de Valparaíso School of Psychology and the Valparaíso Institute of Complex Systems.

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imperfectcognitions....

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UK-German Workshop on the Philosophy of Psychiatry in Berlin

A mini report on our small Workshop in Berlin. #philsky

Sunset and pool

#sunset #skeetyourview

🌟This week we are spotlighting network member @lisabortolotti.com! Lisa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and the University of Ferrara and she investigates how belief, rationality, agency, and mental health interact with each other.

Poster of summer school

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Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show Positive thinkers are ‘literally on the same wavelength’, say Japanese researchers Whether it’s an exam, flight or health check, some people take a sunny view of the future while others plan for catastrophes. Now researchers have found that people with an upbeat outlook show similar patterns of brain activity when they mull over future scenarios. Continue reading...

Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show

Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show Positive thinkers are ‘literally on the same wavelength’, say Japanese researchers

Glad to have the opportunity to comment on a brand new study on optimism in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #philsky #philpsy

New call for papers: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Tsou are the guest editor of a special issue dedicated to Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Submit your work here: think.taylorandfranc... Deadline 1 February 2026. think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philsci #philpsy

With sister on the beach

Annual leave starts today! #skeetyourview ☀️😎🌊🍹

This paper was another one long in the making. In it, I discuss the phenomena of self illness ambiguity and the impact of processes of social understanding on demarcating mental disorder experiences from the self

Videosofia page on the Philosophy Museum website

The Philosophy Garden videos are now featured on the Philosophy Museum website: museodellafilosofia.unimi.it/prime-stanze... under the very inspired title of Videosofia.
Thanks Anna Ichino (founder and curator of the Museum) for supporting our initiative! #philsky #phipsy #philosophyforeveryone

Reposting for recent arrivals… #philosophy #PhilSky

Lina Lissia

How do neologisms help us to articulate our feelings and experiences? This week, Lina Lissia explores how the language of modern dating shows a development in new terminology which attempts to alleviate hermenutical struggles.

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imperfectcognitions....

Our summer school is going to be awesome! 🌟 Please do apply if you are interested!

Planning ahead for summer 2026? Don’t miss the EPIC Summer School in Bertinoro (Italy)! Details and a link to apply here: epistemicinjusticein... #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #MedHum

Reasoning

New call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning think.taylorandfranc...
Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
Deadline: 30 April 2026 #philsky