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There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026).

Submission deadline: 15 February!

Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️
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Good question, not entirely sure what he meant... But he typically frames it in terms of the effects of stimuli on 'the mind', so my bet would be on the first option.

I don't think he ever explains the aggregation of petites perceptions, just takes it for granted. Monads are coordinated in their mirroring of each other but that doesn't explain their aggregation. I guess he would love the tools of modern psychophysics.

Goo point, tx. Hopefully keeping the sounds way below the perceptual treshold could take care of that.

Imagine stimulating someone with 1,000 sounds below their perceptual threshold. Would they consciously hear anything? My hunch is no - but Leibniz argued yes: these ‘minute perceptions’ might aggregate and cross the threshold for conscious awareness together. A fascinating question for lab testing!

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We'd love to welcome you to Barcelona for the next PLM Conference. Only hours left until submission deadline!! 🚨🚨
Plenary speakers:
• Elisabeth Camp
• Michael Martin
• Kristina Musholt
• Dan Zeman

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Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is 10 year old!! And what better way to celebrate than to come to Prague in May for the 14th Ernst Mach Workshop on aesthetic attention, where I will be keynoting (with Paloma Atencia Linares). More info: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Wait, "taxonandum" is not a word? Too bad...

Call for abstracts - Ernst Mach Workshop on Aesthetic Attention
w/ Paloma Atencia-Linares and Bence Nanay, deadline March 20

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Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory

Ruhr University Bochum (and Online) 18–20 Feb 2026

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This debate shows how fragile contrastive analysis (the statistics of comparing conscious with unconscious perception) really is.

A possible response is to use an alternative statistical procedure to find NCCs/C-functions.

I have developed such a procedure here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Cool, on my reading list!

title of Michel's Consciousness Doesn't Do That

Is Signal Strength a Confound in Consciousness Research?

today's blog post, critiquing @matthiasmichel.bsky.social and @hakwan.bsky.social -- link in comments

Aaaand we're back!!

Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp

- to work with me!

Deadline: March 20, 2026

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#PhiMiSci published a new article in the special issue on structuralism: “Neurophenomenal structuralism and the role of computational context” by M. Paßler and A. Doerig.
It aims to challenges local structuralist theories that overlook the content-constituting role of computational context.

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BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex, Nature Neuroscience

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”

In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.

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We argue that brain function IS anatomically localized, but that organization doesn’t look much like Brodmann brain areas.

One advantage of my proposal: you can remain open on the cases of phenomenal overflow. In contrast, Mudrik et al. are committed to denying that non-accessed phenomenal states are a form of consciousness, which feels a bit forced.

Happy to see that the Access Consciousness-Phenomenal Consciousness distinction is being reconsidered.

My preferred solution is to get rid of the notion of "access consciousness" altogether but retain distinction btw "pure" and "mixed" states of PC.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Current Workshop CFA: 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop   Call for abstracts        We invite authors to submit abstracts of up to 750-words for the upcoming...

2nd CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw.
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
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This is friggin’ cool.

I'd love to know the answer. My guess is the field is not big enough to organize itself properly.

Physics? How?