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Group blog investigating the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health research. Bringing research to everyone, via research updates, conference reports, and interviews with experts.
Perri Sriwannawit
Is love beyond our control? This week, we're exited to have Perri Sriwannawit presenting an aspect of her recent PhD thesis. Exploring this question through the work of Harry Frankfurt and Natasha McKeever. What agency do we have in the face of love?
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Philosophy of psychiatry is a rapidly developing field, in April the first dedicated academic event of the field happened in Chile. Organized by the Universidad de Valparaíso School of Psychology and the Valparaíso Institute of Complex Systems.
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Workshop participants
New blog post today! On the first ever academic event in Chile completely devoted to the philosophy of psychiatry. To know more: imperfectcognitions.... #philsky #philpsy
24.07.2025 16:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Instead of moving closer to truth, belief in misinformation is running rampant, paving the way for authoritarian regimes to bulldoze democratic institutions with foolhardy political policies..."
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Lina Lissia
How do neologisms help us to articulate our feelings and experiences? This week, Lina Lissia explores how the language of modern dating shows a development in new terminology which attempts to alleviate hermenutical struggles.
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False
Todays post is from Joe Pierre at UC San Francisco. Presenting his recent fascinating book 'False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren’t True' exploring the grey area between delusion and psychopathology.
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Simon
Today we welcome Simon Barker (University of Tartu) to present his paper: Epistemic health, epistemic self-trust, and bipolar disorder: a case study. Exploring the relation of mental health with 'epistemic health'.
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A report on our @triphilosophy.bsky.social funded webinar, Philosophy in the Classroom! Featuring @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social @lauradol4.bsky.social and @htaylorphil.bsky.social #philosophyforeveryone #p4c
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Splash
Philosophy fortnight is all about promoting philosophy! This week we look at how philosophical methods and resources can be implemented in the classroom with a webinar featuring a panel of passionate University of Birmingham philosophers.
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Stefaan
How does reason affect culture? This week we welcome Stefaan Blancke of Tilburg University who is presenting his recent paperr on how the processes of reason and objectification have shaped the development of culture.
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Webinar Splash
This week, we're highlighting a recent webinar exploring Philosophy for Everyone! Paul Knights, Bonny Astor, and Helen Beebee present their fascinating means of exploring philosophy outside of the academy - in the pub, or even out in the Pennines!
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This weeks post is by Paolo Bodini at the University of Genoa. He joins us to explore the notion of democratic legitimacy and how democractic processes are inherently underpinned by imperfect cognitions!
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In celebration of Philosophy Fortnight, Lisa hosted a webinar exploring philosophy and conspiracy theory, featuring U-Wen Low, Joseph Pierre, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, and Nele Van de Mosselaer.
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Alex
Shiho
Time to announce some staff changes at Imperfect Cognitions! After years of excellent service as blog editors, Kiichi Inarimori and Aisha Qadoos are moving on. Thanks to both. We welcome to the Imperfect Cognitions team Alex McCowen in Birmingham and Shiho Sugiura in Hokkaido! #philsky
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How do we encourage young people to engage with philosophy? This week, Sally Latham joins us to introduce Fantastic Philosophy, a new childrens show on BBC Teach, exploring philosophical themes and featuring Stephen Fry!
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How can AI be utilised in dementia care? This week, Joel Krueger explores how AI can be used as cognitive extenders, promoting safety, wellbeing and cognitive support in dementia care.
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We all act for reasons, but are there reasons to respond to those reasons? This week, we welcome Sophie Keeling to present her recent paper "Responding to Second-Order Reasons"
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This week, Maria Cristina Contrino presents her new paper 'Narrative Negotiation of Practical Identity'. She explores the power of personal narratives in forming our personal identity and guiding our interactions.
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Wittgenstein on Other Minds
This week, Constantine Sandis discusses his new book Wittgenstein on Other Minds, a collection of 9 essays explaining Wittgenstein's anti-scepticism about other minds and how this is compatible with real-life concerns of understanding others #philsky
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Arthur Krieger
Today, Arthur Krieger discusses his interesting new paper on emotional compulsion in addiction, arguing for the thesis that much addictive behaviour is compelled by the emotional pain of withdrawal #philsky
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Juan F. Álvarez
Today, Juan Álvarez discusses remembering and relearning, examining the widely agreed upon view that no instance of relearning qualifies as a case of remembering, arguing that this view lacks empirical evidence #philsky
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Vladimir Krstic
This week, Vladimir Krstic discusses transparent delusions whereby people suffer from a delusional belief that they ascribe to themselves whilst also judging the belief to be false #philsky
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“The changes in the one who has experienced trauma may be experienced by loved ones as an ambiguous loss of the physically present but psychologically absent kind.”
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Aisha Qadoos
This week, Aisha Qadoos discusses why a loved one's trauma can feel like an ambiguous loss and how this may be a transformative experience #philsky
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Jonathan Wilson
This week, Jonathan Wilson discusses the bullshit receptivity scale, and argues that we ought to frame statements used in studies that use the bullshit receptivity scale in terms of 'unclarifiable bullshit' #philsky
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Regina Fabry
In this week's post, Regina Fabry discusses her paper, Narrative Gaslighting, exploring some of the potentially harmful consequences of self-narration, and how narrative gaslighting threatens to undermines a narraters epistemic and moral competence #philsky
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A post by Philosophy for Girls by Melissa Shew and Kimberly Garchar imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2020/10/phil...
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A post on Women’s Voices in Psychiatry by Gianetta Rands imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2018/12/wome...
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A post introducing Philosophy by Women, a collection by Elly Vintiadis imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2020/11/phil...
08.03.2025 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On International Women’s Day, we revisit three books making space for the views of women in philosophy and mental health! #IWD2025 #philsky
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