Great opportunity for a Post-doc with a first degree in Philosophy, Pyschology or Medicine to join MatthewBroome💙, Prof Lisa Bortolotti and colleagues at UofBirmingham on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Are infants conscious?

I'll be doing Pint of Science on May 15th, chatting about how to tell when infants becomes conscious.

It's at the Moseley Hive, 7.00-9.30, more details here: pintofscience.co.uk/event/brains-b…

New job! Join us at project EPIC (Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare): jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ310/res…
Part-time and flexible working encouraged.

Latest papers: Elliot Porter argues that mania restructures our agency by creating a pervasive sense of urgency, but this does not undermine the basic capacities on which personal autonomy is founded in this #openaccess article buff.ly/3QggKD6

New Philosophy Garden video from Prof Lisa Bortolotti and Jeremy Williams, on hot to disagree. And there's owls!

youtube.com/watch?v=NbXIF3…

‘Dennett managed to combine philosophical rigour and inventiveness with the realisation that the best available empirical evidence is both a powerful inspiration and an unavoidable constraint for the philosopher’s theorising.’ Prof Lisa Bortolotti

The Dissenter now has a website!

Check it out.

thedissenter.net

In-depth interviews with leading academics on #psychology , #philosophy , #anthropology , #neuroscience , #economics , #biology , and more.

Coming up this week in London 👇

Latest papers: Chauncey Maher draws on the work of Nicholas Shea to explore original intentionality in plants, focusing on the foraging of parasitic vines buff.ly/4aQhI1c

I teamed up with Kengo Miyazono to write a personal note on the significance of Daniel Dennett's views and methods. It appeared today as a post on Imperfect Cognitions imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/04/rememb…

Two years of pioneer research! It is finally out! 💣Do face masks affect our sens of self? Enjoy reading and find it out! 😉😷 Chiara Cappelletto

Bonus post today: blog editors Lisa Bortolotti and Kengo Miyazono talk about Daniel Dennett's influence on their work and their view of philosophy imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/04/rememb… #RIPDennett

New video at the philosophy garden on managing political disagreement! 💬

A new video has landed in The Philosophy Garden. Jeremy Williams introduces us to the Owls' Parliament and asks whether we can have respectful disagreement when we do not share the same values: youtu.be/NbXIF3GbpIk #P4C #philosophyforeveryone School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion, UoBham

Is internet access a human right? Merten Reglitz at School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion, UoBham argues that it is! hellofuture.orange.com/en/recognizing… To reflect and promote discussion on this topic, you can watch our video The Tortoise and the Hare in the Philosophy Garden, scripted by Merten!

Earlier this year we launched a Write a Script competition for young people in secondary education in the UK on #disagreement . Read the three entries selected by the judges here: sites.google.com/view/the-philo… Aren't they wonderful? And we have just launched a new competition on #art !

On the blog today, Sarah Arnaud (Sarah Arnaud) discusses the interplay between first-person perspectives and scientific research in conceptualising #autism

imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/04/first-…

Lovely idea and project to do with 11-18 year olds!
TeamRE

Looking forward to talking about #epistemicinjustice & communication practices that (1) undermine, imply implausibility and recharacterize or (2) accept peoples’ experiences of suicidality at CASLC Uni of York, Thurs 25th 2pm

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Come do an MSc in Philosophy, Mental Health and Psychology at Birmingham!
More details here:
birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/c…