James Openshaw

We're excited to announce a few big updates to PhOMO

1. We have a new website and a logo! This revamp has been in the works for some time so we're happy to finally share it.

2. PhOMO will soon begin taking annual membership fees to defray costs of some activities, protect individuals [...]

Thrilled to announce that Kourken Michaelian’s and my ANR/DFG-funded project ‘SEER: The Semantics of Episodic Representations’ has received funding for 3 years. Stay tuned for project-related workshops and two postdoc positions (recruitment in spring 2026)!

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!

I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.

Final Call: We are hiring for multiple positions (open rank and open area).

Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025.

See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Grief Utterances Organised by Philosophy, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University

Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

A free version is available here: rdcu.be/exUiD

Thanks again to the guest editors - and also to many who heard me present this in Munich, Shanghai, Taipei, Cardiff, and Birmingham.

Illusions of memory: what referential confabulation can tell us about remembering - Asian Journal of Philosophy Recent philosophy of memory tends to treat confabulation as a distinctive type of representational error, marked by reference failure, often via direct analogy with the traditional conception of senso...

Happy to share that my recent paper on confabulation is now published as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection in the Asian JP:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU!

Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!

PhOMO - Calls The Philosophy of Memory Organization

The deadline for applications to present at PhOMO's prospective session at the 2026 APA Central Division meeting (Chicago, Feb 18–21) is in 2 weeks. Please spread the word!

More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls

I'm very grateful to the brilliant guest editors, @linyingtung.bsky.social, Kirk Michaelian, Shin Sakuragi, Chris McCarroll, and André Sant'Anna!

New paper - 'Illusions of memory' - forthcoming in the Asian Journal of Philosophy, as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection. Penultimate draft up here:
philpapers.org/rec/OPEIOM

We are looking for early career researchers interested in organising PhOMO's next (4th) online conference, expected to take place in 2027. Please spread the word! To apply, see our website: www.phomo.org/calls

IPM 4.5 starting now!

PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

Thanks for contributing such a cool paper!

Most of all, thanks to the contributors for their excellent papers, clearly showing, I think, that this is a pressing and exciting area of research. I hope the papers prompt lots of further work!

This was very much a joint effort, so huge thanks to co-editors Kirk and Denis for their collaboration. We began discussing this in 2020-21, and held a conference on the topic in 2022. Great to see it finally out. Thanks as well to all who kindly reviewed.

Reference and remembering: editorial introduction - Synthese This topical collection brings together papers that address memory and aboutness. Focal points of the contributions concern relationships between episodic memory, reference (or singular thought), the ...

Reference and Remembering, a topical collection in Synthese, is now fully published. Here's our editorial introduction to the 15 contributions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences: a non-disjunctivist account including vicarious, oneiric and fictional remembering - Synthese The paper argues for a non-disjunctivist account of reference in episodic memory. Our account provides a uniform theory of reference for episodic memories that root in veridical and non-veridical expe...

The final contribution to the Reference and Remembering collection is now published! A great paper by @kristinaliefke.bsky.social and Markus Werning titled 'Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences': link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PhOMO - 2025 Pacific APA Philosophy of Memory Organization

PhOMO's first ever group session at an APA event is next Friday (April 18, 7–9pm) at the Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco. If you'll be around we warmly encourage you to come along! We have a very exciting line-up: www.phomo.org/events/2025-...

Remembering as the same - Synthese One may not only represent the same objects of one’s past, but also represent them as the same objects across time. I call this phenomenon “Remembering as the Same” (RaS). In this article, I aim to br...

Excited to share that my paper 'Remembering as the Same' is now published open access.

Part of a fabulous collection co-edited by @openshaw.bsky.social, Kourken Michaelian, and Denis Perrin.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A very enjoyable and interesting workshop here today - especially thanks to all the students who came with great questions

Upcoming workshop at NTU this week!

The Philosophy of Memory Organization: An update James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University)

Great post from on the past, present, and future of the Philosophy of Memory Organization, authored by James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Engrams and causal specificity The identification of memory engrams remains a methodological obstacle in neuroscience if they are to play the explanatory role ascribed to them by engram theory. I tackle the problem of specificit...

'Engrams and causal specificity' has now been published in Philosophical Psychology

Research José Carlos Camillo

My paper 'Interpreting continuism as a mechanistic thesis' has been accepted for publication in Synthese. In it, I aim to precisify the continuist hypothesis, where memory and imagination are taken to belong to the same natural kind. + (1/5)

Preprint: josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html

Congratulations, Kristina! Not to judge it by its cover, but it's certainly a beautiful cover! Looking forward to taking a closer look soon