Kathleen Murphy-Hollies

“You might think that we could collaborate, that I might have knowledge to contribute. But if I ever went off script, trying to add a detail that I felt mattered, they let me know via a curt response or no response at all”

Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?

Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!

Deadline 23 Jan 2026

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore

Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt

Spending a lot of time with Florence and Lily recently, and really not needing for much else ✨

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Cover of document The Epistemic Determinants of Health

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 read our open access document for the World Health Organisation on The Epistemic Determinants of Health: shorturl.at/jrjKq. A detailed report led by Fred Cooper on the significance of epistemic injustice for the delivery of health services. #philsky

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On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 watch a 90-second video produced with the Voice Collective where we reflect on the harmful stereotypes associated with hearing voices sites.google.com/vie... #philsky #edusky `#epistemicinjustice

Beyond Belief? Delusions and the Regulative Account of Folk Psychology - Review of Philosophy and Psychology Belief ascription in Western contexts is typically guided by the congruency principle: believing something entails, ceteris paribus, acting and reasoning in accordance with that belief. Some people wi...

Another excellent co-authored publication supported by the TIPPS project: sway.cloud.microsoft/xtU0m67IbRR0...
Congrats to Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo and his colleagues!
Beyond Belief? Delusions and the Regulative Account of Folk Psychology. Rev.Phil.Psych. (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s131...

AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.

Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation

theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...

New paper! Its main idea is simple but overlooked: rumination isn’t just persistent negative thinking. It can also involve losing the ability to stop inner speech. This explains why rumination feels overwhelming and why practices cultivating inner silence make a difference.

doi.org/10.1080/0020...

Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters

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The start of the chapter Le renard et le hibou: confabulation, conspirations et regulation de soi

Back of the book explaining the project on human fables

Super happy to receive my first paper in French, with @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social and @matteomameli.bsky.social, on confabulation and conspiracy theories, in a book entitled “Les fables de l’homme”. Thanks David Simonin for leading the project and translating the paper. #philsky #philpsy

Mini Socrates asks questions about delusions

Is it normal to be delusional? @emas-b.bsky.social launches our 2026 series of Philosophy workshops at @winterbournehouse.bsky.social this February! Ticket is free and includes access to the Garden. Thanks @triphilosophy.bsky.social for supporting this initiative #philsky #philosophyforeveryone

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I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!

Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky

What motivates mental fictionalism? Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...

🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elisabetta, Lisa and Kathleen

After a day full of stimulating talks, it’s time for aperitivo! With #projectEPIC’s @lalumera.bsky.social and @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social

The Epistemic Determinants of Health Health and illness are significantly determined by knowledge and its communication. At first glance, this might seem obvious; people use healthcare systems when they suspect that something might be wr...

I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models:

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In a final burst of summer, I’m in Cagliari learning a LOT about metaphor ☺️

Volume 75 Issue 4 | The Philosophical Quarterly | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St. Andrews. Publishes high-quality articles from leading international scholars across the range of philosophical stu...

Special issue of Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice, guest edited by Mona Simion:

Excellent paper which we’re very grateful to publish! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 If you think there’s something dodgy about all this therapy-speak about, this is a must-read 🤓

Next week in Cagliari, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (@kmurphyhollies.bsky.social) and I will represent #projectEPIC at this awesome event, organised by Francesca Ervas: prin.unica.it/meimi/prin-p...
Looking forward to talking about expertise and #epistemicinjustice #philsky #philpsy

Elisabetta

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Excited to welcome Elisabetta Lalumera to our editorial board! Elisabetta is a philosopher of medicine and her latest book, Health, Wellbeing, and Quality of Life, is out this year with Palgrave. #philsky #philpsy

Jodie Russell

How can the ambiguity arising from discontinuity of our self and our illness lead to misunderstanding and alienation? Today's post is by Jodie Russell (University of Birmingham) on her recent paper “Prescriptive ‘selves’ and self-illness ambiguity”.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....

The Importance of Kindness – and some great tunes

Wonderful post on the #projectEPIC blog by Jude Williams who tells us about The Choir With No Name and importance of kindness #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Philosophy of Education This textbook provides an introductory account of the philosophy of education, focussing on the questions raised by educational policy and practice.

🎉Out now! Philosophy of Education, my new book with @lauradol4.bsky.social & @janegatley.bsky.social (Palgrave Philosophy Today series). It explores how thinking philosophically about educational concepts can clarify aims & address challenges in policy & practice. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

Cause they’re mutually consistent justifications for their attitudes, not mutually consistent explanations, As I dIsCuSs iN mY fOrThCoMiNg PaPeR ✨

FunMo_2025 - Durham University

FunMo Kick-off event “Perspectives on molecular functionality” is coming up this week with a great selection of talks! Thanks to @thebsps.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this event.

www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Philosophical Psychology Psychedelic-assisted therapy by Elly Vintiadis. Volume 38, Issue 7 of Philosophical Psychology

The special issue on Psychedelic-assisted therapy I edited for Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social is finally out! You can find my editorial and all the 13 articles here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphp20/3...

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New paper accepted!🎉

Is Taylor Swift responsible for how she makes her fans feel?

Yes; the notion of affective power (the ability to influence how others feel) can help identify the responsibilities celebrities have towards their fans.

w/ G.Mills & @alfredarcher.bsky.social

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