Alfredo Vernazzani

Oh cool I remember that conversation! Can you remind me what's the name of Chilean street art?

Unfortunately it wasn't recorded — I have a written version, but it is in German!

I'd got it, no worries!

Do you think there's a chance, if enough people desert him, that he might be forced to resign?

@alfredovernazzani.bsky.social is exactly right.

They think that any order the President gives is lawful.

Just start with killing people at sea off Venezuela. Even GOP senators have questioned the legality of this, and an admiral resigned.

#NewNurembergTrials

This is getting scarier.

Pablo Hubacher Haerle, Uncertain Action - PhilPapers It is a prominent idea in the theory of action that if an action is intentional, the agent knows the reason why they’re acting. This idea gets often ascribed to G.E.M. ...

Certain characters from a Dostoevsky novel and some ideas from psychoanalysis make an appearance as well.
If this sounds interesting, here’s the preprint:
philpapers.org/rec/HUBUAX
(Open access version coming soon—thanks @unicologne.bsky.social )
#philsky #philosophypapers #academicsky 5/5

Sensory ratings across sensory modalities and semantic categories show blind people associate touch more strongly with (most) concepts than sighted people

New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Ecological palimpsests

Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
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Do bees see nothing? Primates with damage to the visual cortex have no conscious visual experience, but display adaptive visual behaviour (a phenomenon called blindsight). Here I team up with two primate researchers to ask if bee vision could be similar to blindsight. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

“Kant and Environmental Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative of Sustainability”

Zachary Vereb

www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Looks really interesting, thanks for sharing it!

The attention market—and what is wrong with it - Philosophical Studies Attention is described as a “scarce commodity” that is traded in “a marketplace.” This, it is further claimed, contributes to a “widespread sense of attentional crisis.” But is there really an attenti...

What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unfortunately not! Just keep going, submit, get unfair reviews and rejections, always use every hint-comment to constantly improve. It's tough and often frustrating, but ultimately it gets better :)

It used to be the same for me! And well, it makes sense, it's the fear you might have forgotten smth important and only realize that after submitting 😅 but it gets better with time!

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!

#philsky #philscisky

Some pics of my public speech on the history of antifascism in Italy before and after 1943. I talked about the Arditi del popolo, my grandfather, and the many secrets of the past that still shape our present lives.

@dryan149.bsky.social and I have published a paper on how we should all be a little less like Holden Caufield (i.e. obsessed with the idea of authenticity) and a bit more like María Lugones (i.e. celebrating our multiple facets)

The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD

Is enemyship just inverted friendship? Or is it a sui generis category.

Check out "Enemies" by Rebecca Roman Hanrahan & Walter Ott.

They explore conceptual, taxonomical, and normative questions about having enemies.

Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Taken from “Another Happy Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” by Ólafur ArnaldsOrder it from Erased Tapes: https://bit.ly/ERATP038Listen on Spotify: ht... Ólafur Arnalds - Alice Enters

This absolutely breaks your heart in just under three minutes, then leaves you to get on with your day like nothing has happened

How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ. The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

Habit-Like Forms of Perceptual Learning - Topoi In the growing literature on perceptual learning, most researchers assume it to be a form of skill. In this paper, we argue that at least some forms of perceptual learning are better understood as hab...

Our paper on perceptual habits has now been published open access. You can download it here:

#philsky #philosophy

I actually kind of "hear" the waves..

Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation

Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like…

Thanks for hosting us!

More infos here:

www.stadtakademie.de/programm/det...

Happening next week in Bochum!

I'll speak about the story of Italian anti-fascism, and present snippets from my book-in-progress on my trips to uncover the history of my family. All are welcome!

Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking Abstract. Affective stimuli, such as fearful faces, are assumed to receive prioritized processing over neutral stimuli, making them easier to detect when p

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

#consciousness
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