Mayo P. Candenas (He/They)

Concepts of health and disease: insights from experimental philosophy of medicine - Synthese Synthese - The aim of the paper is to explore how people understand the concepts of health and disease, including the factors that influence their judgments about whether a condition is a disease...

New paper in Synthèse. Open access.

The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology Reprinted by the author from: Turkheimer, E. (2017). The hard question in psychiatric nosology. Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry IV: Psychiatric Nosology, 27-44.

Crud what happened to the link? ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/the-hard-q...

The Viciousness of Psychological Resilience A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

New blog post on Imperfect Cognitions! Adam Blehm explores the downsides of psychological resilience: imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #philsky #philosophyforeveryone

🇵🇸La manifestación propalestina impide que La Vuelta termine en Madrid.

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📹 @davidfsabadell.bsky.social

Ayuso apoyando al equipo israelí en La Vuelta.

Vergüenza.

We're excited to announce the fall 2025 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science! Schedule in the thread 👇

💻 More details + registration: www.philsci.org/psa_...

Childhood Trauma Is a Global Mental Health Crisis, Researchers Warn A survey of more than 16,000 youth across three countries shows a clear link between adverse experiences and mental illness.

Childhood Trauma Is a Global Mental Health Crisis, Researchers Warn

A survey of more than 16,000 youth across three countries shows a clear link between adverse experiences and mental illness.

By Richard Sears

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(For Spanish-speaking PhD students in philosophy)
📢🚨 Call for abstrats para aquellxs que estéis haciendo un doctorado en filosofía de la ciencia, epistemología, filosofía de la mente, filosofía del lenguaje, metafísica analítica, lógica o áreas afines.
(Hilo🧵⬇️)

Logo of the new Journal "Experimental Philosophy".

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

@xphijournal.bsky.social

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This month, Dan Degerman & Fred Cooper (University of Bristol) are becoming editors of the #projectEPIC blog. Thanks to Jodie Russell & Sally Latham for doing such a great job commissioning and promoting posts. #philsky #EpistemicInjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com

I’m making my debut as an admin of @metisuned.bsky.social and would like to invite you to follow us! We’re a very active research group, with events and activities happening every week, many of which you can follow online. If you’re interested in philosophy, don’t miss out!

#EPSA25 🥰🌿

Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...

@moritz-bammel.bsky.social and @guicogsci.bsky.social discuss the possibility of extending radical embodiment to human social collectives. They compare two established approaches: behavior settings theory and the extended cognition notion of cognitive institutions

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Trajectories of Being: How Affordances Shape Identity and Behavior across Time - Topoi This paper introduces the Dynamic Affordance Trajectory Framework (DATF), a multiscalar approach to understanding human behavior and identity formation. It integrates short-term perception-action cycl...

Trajectories of Being: How Affordances Shape Identity and Behaviour across Time

Melina Gastelum-Vargas

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A gold flyer announcing that the new issue of Hypatia is now available. The flyer has a detail from the front cover of the journal running along its centre, depicting various abstract women's faces and hair in different shades of blue.

New issue of Hypatia, 40.3, is now published: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From Sense-Making To the Looping Effect: Unpacking the Philosophy of Transformation - Philosophia This article develops a comprehensive philosophical account of transformation by integrating phenomenological, narrative, and enactivist approaches. Transformation is conceptualised not as a singular ...

From Sense-Making To the Looping Effect: Unpacking the Philosophy of Transformation

Andrzej Kapusta

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Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science!

You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Many Faces of Expertise / Disputatio International Journal of Philosophy Call for Papers: “The Many Faces of Expertise” Special issue of the journal Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy The topic of expertise and expert knowledge has receiv...

Call for papers for a special issue of Disputatio on expertise:

Trump and the global rise of fascist anti-psychiatry Trump is using psychiatry to cut care, expand policing and turn public despair into political control.

This is good from @eric-reinhart.com
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

From Life to Higher Cognition: Autonomy, Know-How and the Radical Turn - Topoi This paper defends the partial continuities—that are sometimes called “kinks”—in the evolutionary trajectory from biology to cognition and from basic to higher cognition. Building on Radical Enactivis...

Giovanni Rolla, Manoel Abreu Fernandes & Alexandre Lohmann Oliveira write on the possibility of separating the life sciences from the mind sciences, and separating the study of basic cognition from the study of higher cognition

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Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here

I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published

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Science, values, and society: themes from Helen Longino On the occasion of Helen Longino’s talk at the University of Iceland on the 8th of October 2025, we are organising a mini-workshop on themes from Longino’s philosophical work on the 10th o...

Very exciting workshop in Reykjavik in October, organized by @oscarw.bsky.social. Please spread the word and/or consider submitting an abstract. #philsci #philsky #hps

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Revisiting the human sociobiology debate What have we learned 50 years on?

🚨 New, short article by myself, Clark Barrett and @kevinlala.bsky.social on the legacy of Wilson's 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis', which was published 50 years ago.

@science.org #ehbea #histbiol #evobio #psyscisky

Revisiting the human sociobiology debate |Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Toxic Positivity and Epistemic Injustice

New post on the #projectepic blog: Shené de Rijk on toxic positivity and #epistemicinjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/08/toxi... #philsky #philpsy

If you missed that great Cognizing life conference in Tubingen organized by Christoph Hueck two weeks ago, here are the videos of the presentations. Talks by Denis Walsh, Joan Steigerwald, Dan Nicholson and many others.
 www.clc2025.de/videos

The next Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) conference will be held at the University of Cambridge, U.K, on 15-18 July 2026.
#philsci
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Mania, urgency, and the structure of agency A debate persists over how to distinguish manic states from non-manic ones (such as depressions). A lacuna exists amongst these efforts, where a specifically agentive account of mania would sit. An...

In an open access paper Elliot Porter investigates mania, urgency, and the structure of agency doi.org/10.1080/0951...

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Rashid Khalidi withdraws course on Middle East history, saying it's 'impossible to teach' given adoption of IHRA.

'Columbia's capitulation..is being done to cover up...the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia's leadership is now fully complicit' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...