Absolutely blown away by this global event🌎Kudos to the incredible organising team Neural Mechanisms Online & @marcofacchin8 & the A-class reviewers who poured their heart and soul into this insanity of a programme😲🙌 🔥👇 *5 keynote *7 symposia *150 talks neuralmechanisms.org/ispsm-conferen…

Free will and responsibility folks, John Fischer asks me to share his recent piece on moral responsibility skepticism and retributivism. Abstract: Moral responsibility skepticism has traditionally been dismissed as a nonstarter, but because of the important work of…

We are delighted to announce that @JoWolffBSG has been elected as the new President of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Welcome Professor Wolff! We also send many thanks to our outgoing President Baroness Onora O’Neill. royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/professor…

Take part in one of the largest scientific studies on perceptual diversity ever undertaken, brought together by a team of world-leading scientists and philosophers: bit.ly/474t3sg Anil Seth

📢Editorial to the "Bio A.I. - from embodied cognition to enactive robotics" just out. We strongly encourage interested readers to reference the (super cool) original articles. With Adam Safron Andy Clark frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New Element in Philosophy of Mind - 'Memory and Remembering' by Felipe de Brigard. Free to download till 29th November. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Happy #WorldPhilosophyDay The Royal Institute of Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural essay competition for our journal Think. We look forward to receiving your essay submission! Find out more: buff.ly/3QEYh2p

We've got Jonathan Birch from LSE Jonathan Birch coming to speak to us at the Aristotelian Society on Monday night (20th). Do come along for his talk "Emotionless Animals?" at 6pm in the Woburn Suite. His draft paper is available on our website aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceeding…

SPP 2024 @ Purdue!

Xmas special Sussex COGS seminar this week, I'll be presenting my book, Naturally Minded: Mental Causation, Virtual Machines, and Maps, Thu 14 Dec, 4pm GMT. On campus Arts A108. Online universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97132196025?…, Passcode: 335753 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

We're looking for UK philosophy departments, clubs, or organisations to join our local partners programme. We have funding available for those planning programmes or events aimed primarily at the general public. Interested? More details here ⬇️ buff.ly/3U5pMFG

We are delighted to announce that Chrisantha Fernando has joined as a new judge for the Think Essay Prize. Don't forget to submit your essay by Sunday 31st March 2024! (1/3) royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-ess…

Did you know? We provide financial support for graduate students to organise conferences, so they can: * present their work to peers * hear keynote presentations from established philosophers * gain experience of conference organisation. Apply here: buff.ly/4bk97oc

Exciting news and new posts Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science!

This has been a long time in the works, but now that there’s a website and a release date, I am happy to share that Matt Flummer and I are turning some of our podcast (The Free Will Show) into a book! amazon.com/How-Free-Are-W…

People say "I'd be a materialist but you can't explain consciousness in material terms" as if you could explain it in non-material terms. Similarly people say "You can't explain free action if determinism is true" as if you could explain free action if indeterminism were true.

On 22 March at 3:30-5 (London time), the Sussex Philosophy Society Sussex Philosophy will host Prof. Andy Clark for an in-person Research Seminar entitled “Principled Entanglements: Predictive Brains and the Intimacy of Mind and World” in Arts A (U of Sussex campus). Anil Seth

Very interesting conversation between Melanie Mitchell and me about all the ways current AI is different from the powerful natural intelligence we find in organisms from brine shrimp to two-year-olds. lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-to…

In a new essay, I argue that the problem with popular alarmism about "misinformation" is not that it is too pessimistic about the state of media and public discourse. The problem is that it is not pessimistic enough. 1/5