Imperfect Cognitions
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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.
This week's post is by Helene Cæcilie Mørck and co-authors presenting their recent paper 'For a Choreography of Emotions: Spatiotemporal Phenomenology' published in Psychopathology. Exploring the link of movement and emotion through a phenoenological lens
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January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This week's post is by Helene Cæcilie Mørck and co-authors presenting their recent paper 'For a Choreography of Emotions: Spatiotemporal Phenomenology' published in Psychopathology. Exploring the link of movement and emotion through a phenoenological lens
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Today's post is by Annalisa Coliva, at the University of California, Irvine. Presenting her recent paper arguing for a 'family resemblance' conception of womanhood, rejecting the idea that it must be tied to strict, necessary, and sufficient conditions.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Today's post is by Annalisa Coliva, at the University of California, Irvine. Presenting her recent paper arguing for a 'family resemblance' conception of womanhood, rejecting the idea that it must be tied to strict, necessary, and sufficient conditions.
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In this week's @imperfectcognitions.com blog Daria Cybulska presents research showing that skills taught in information literacy are similar to those of conspiracy theorists.
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Information Literacy Skills of Conspiracy Theorists? Call for Reflection
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM
In this week's @imperfectcognitions.com blog Daria Cybulska presents research showing that skills taught in information literacy are similar to those of conspiracy theorists.
imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/info...
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Todays post is by Daria Cybulska, Director of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK. Presenting an exploration of the role of emotion in conspiracy theory. What role does emotion play in driving tendency towards conspiratorial thinking?
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January 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Todays post is by Daria Cybulska, Director of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK. Presenting an exploration of the role of emotion in conspiracy theory. What role does emotion play in driving tendency towards conspiratorial thinking?
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Todays post is by David Simonin, director of "Homo Fabulator: the performativity of illusory representations", and editor of a new book (in French) on the power of stories. He asks, what if our illusions shaped reality more reliably than the truth?
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January 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Todays post is by David Simonin, director of "Homo Fabulator: the performativity of illusory representations", and editor of a new book (in French) on the power of stories. He asks, what if our illusions shaped reality more reliably than the truth?
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This week, Orestis Palermos introduces his new book Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics and the Law (Routledge 2025). He investigates the possible legal implications of the exteneded mind technologies, what happens when memories can be hacked?
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Cyborg Rights
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New post today! Orestis Palermos presents Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/cybo... #philsky #booksky
Cyborg Rights
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New post today! Orestis Palermos presents Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/cybo... #philsky #booksky
This week, Elly Vintiadis presents an introduction to her guest-edited special issue of Philosophical Psychology on psychedelic-assisted therapy: The Promises and Perils of the Psychedlic Turn in Psychiatry.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This week, Elly Vintiadis presents an introduction to her guest-edited special issue of Philosophical Psychology on psychedelic-assisted therapy: The Promises and Perils of the Psychedlic Turn in Psychiatry.
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What is boredom and why is it bad? This week, Lorraine Besser, Middlebury College, Vermont introduces her argument that boredom in intrinsically bad because we are dissatisfied and frustrated by the level of cognitive engagement we are experiencing.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What is boredom and why is it bad? This week, Lorraine Besser, Middlebury College, Vermont introduces her argument that boredom in intrinsically bad because we are dissatisfied and frustrated by the level of cognitive engagement we are experiencing.
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For research updates, new books, interviews with experts, spotlights on projects, and conference reports, follow @imperfectcognitions.com. A blog at the intersection of #philosophy, #psychology, and #mentalhealth: a new post every week, rain or shine. #philosophyforeveryone #philsky
December 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
For research updates, new books, interviews with experts, spotlights on projects, and conference reports, follow @imperfectcognitions.com. A blog at the intersection of #philosophy, #psychology, and #mentalhealth: a new post every week, rain or shine. #philosophyforeveryone #philsky
What is transdisciplinary philosophy? This week, David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani introduce their new open access book with Oxford University Press. In it they explore the development and facilitation of community-based philosophy.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What is transdisciplinary philosophy? This week, David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani introduce their new open access book with Oxford University Press. In it they explore the development and facilitation of community-based philosophy.
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This weeks post is by Kamyab Ghorbanpour, Michał Klincewicz, Paris Mavromoustakos Blom and Pieter Spronck introducing their recently published paper: "The Blind Gamer: Examining Ethical Agency Through Choice Blindness in Game Design"
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November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This weeks post is by Kamyab Ghorbanpour, Michał Klincewicz, Paris Mavromoustakos Blom and Pieter Spronck introducing their recently published paper: "The Blind Gamer: Examining Ethical Agency Through Choice Blindness in Game Design"
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Richard Hassall is one of my philosophical opponents but whom I am on good terms with. Always worth paying attention to what they say:
This week, Richard Hassall presents his upcoming paper in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: 'The Institutional Status of Medical and Psychiatric Diagnoses'. In which he explores the power of the speech act of diagnosis, going beyond a statement of fact.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Richard Hassall is one of my philosophical opponents but whom I am on good terms with. Always worth paying attention to what they say:
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I briefly discuss some related issues about the difficulties of obtaining empirical evidence right at the end of the book. There I was happy enough with the line that careful use of fictional and detailed nonfictional examples is enough (on the former, agreeing with @alex-fisher.bsky.social)
This week, Kasper Møller Nielsen, Julie Nordgaard, and Mads Gram Henriksen present their recent publication on a critical perspective of epistemic injustice in healthcare, addressing underlying scientific, conceptual, and theoretical issues.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I briefly discuss some related issues about the difficulties of obtaining empirical evidence right at the end of the book. There I was happy enough with the line that careful use of fictional and detailed nonfictional examples is enough (on the former, agreeing with @alex-fisher.bsky.social)
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"core claims concern, for ex., [...] the nature of the identity prejudices that clinicians are said to harbor toward the patients they treat. We could not identify any empirical study examining or supporting these claims."
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
This week, Kasper Møller Nielsen, Julie Nordgaard, and Mads Gram Henriksen present their recent publication on a critical perspective of epistemic injustice in healthcare, addressing underlying scientific, conceptual, and theoretical issues.
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
#philsky #philpsy
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November 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"core claims concern, for ex., [...] the nature of the identity prejudices that clinicians are said to harbor toward the patients they treat. We could not identify any empirical study examining or supporting these claims."
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
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This project was an absolute dream come true, as was meeting the wonderful Sir Stephen Fry who narrated the shows.
We had wonderful support from the #philosophy community in this journey to bring critical thinking and #oracy to children no matter what their background.
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We had wonderful support from the #philosophy community in this journey to bring critical thinking and #oracy to children no matter what their background.
#philosophyforall
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Sally Latham introduces Fantastic Philosophy imperfectcognitions.... #philsky #edusky
Fantastic Philosophy
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This project was an absolute dream come true, as was meeting the wonderful Sir Stephen Fry who narrated the shows.
We had wonderful support from the #philosophy community in this journey to bring critical thinking and #oracy to children no matter what their background.
#philosophyforall
We had wonderful support from the #philosophy community in this journey to bring critical thinking and #oracy to children no matter what their background.
#philosophyforall
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Lina Lissia on epistemic injustice and the language of modern dating imperfectcognitions.... #philsky
Epistemic Injustice and the Language of Modern Dating
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Lina Lissia on epistemic injustice and the language of modern dating imperfectcognitions.... #philsky
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Sally Latham introduces Fantastic Philosophy imperfectcognitions.... #philsky #edusky
Fantastic Philosophy
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Sally Latham introduces Fantastic Philosophy imperfectcognitions.... #philsky #edusky
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Jonathan Wilson invites us to rethink about bullshit receptivity imperfectcognitions.... #philsky
Rethinking Bullshit Receptivity
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Jonathan Wilson invites us to rethink about bullshit receptivity imperfectcognitions.... #philsky
What are the mechanisms through which mindfulness impacts mental health?
Browyn Finnigan, Australian National University, presents her paper, 'Self-related processing removal or revision? The Buddhist theory of no-self and the mechanisms of mindfulness'.
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Browyn Finnigan, Australian National University, presents her paper, 'Self-related processing removal or revision? The Buddhist theory of no-self and the mechanisms of mindfulness'.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What are the mechanisms through which mindfulness impacts mental health?
Browyn Finnigan, Australian National University, presents her paper, 'Self-related processing removal or revision? The Buddhist theory of no-self and the mechanisms of mindfulness'.
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Browyn Finnigan, Australian National University, presents her paper, 'Self-related processing removal or revision? The Buddhist theory of no-self and the mechanisms of mindfulness'.
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
This week, Kasper Møller Nielsen, Julie Nordgaard, and Mads Gram Henriksen present their recent publication on a critical perspective of epistemic injustice in healthcare, addressing underlying scientific, conceptual, and theoretical issues.
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
#philsky #philpsy
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week, Kasper Møller Nielsen, Julie Nordgaard, and Mads Gram Henriksen present their recent publication on a critical perspective of epistemic injustice in healthcare, addressing underlying scientific, conceptual, and theoretical issues.
#philsky #philpsy
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#philsky #philpsy
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This week, we welcome Steven Gubka, to share his recent paper: "How Anger Helps Us Possess Reasons for Action" (The Philosophical Quarterly). In it, he argues that anger helps us appropriately respond to injustice and is a tool for addressing wrongdoing.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This week, we welcome Steven Gubka, to share his recent paper: "How Anger Helps Us Possess Reasons for Action" (The Philosophical Quarterly). In it, he argues that anger helps us appropriately respond to injustice and is a tool for addressing wrongdoing.
#philpsy #philsky
imperfectcognitions....
#philpsy #philsky
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This week, Richard Hassall presents his upcoming paper in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: 'The Institutional Status of Medical and Psychiatric Diagnoses'. In which he explores the power of the speech act of diagnosis, going beyond a statement of fact.
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
#philsky #philpsy
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October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This week, Richard Hassall presents his upcoming paper in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: 'The Institutional Status of Medical and Psychiatric Diagnoses'. In which he explores the power of the speech act of diagnosis, going beyond a statement of fact.
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
#philsky #philpsy
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This week, we welcome Konrad Banicki and Peter Zachar to present their recently published book 'Conceptualizing Personality Disorder'. Working towards a greater understanding of a contentious and underdeveloped area in philosophy of psychiatry.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This week, we welcome Konrad Banicki and Peter Zachar to present their recently published book 'Conceptualizing Personality Disorder'. Working towards a greater understanding of a contentious and underdeveloped area in philosophy of psychiatry.
#philsky #philpsy
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#philsky #philpsy
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This week, Ruby Hake shares 'Autism and Gender', a forthcoming chapter for Contemporary Philosophy of Autism. Offering an in-depth discussion of essentialism and arguing that critical phenomenology is well placed to prevent this issue going forward.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This week, Ruby Hake shares 'Autism and Gender', a forthcoming chapter for Contemporary Philosophy of Autism. Offering an in-depth discussion of essentialism and arguing that critical phenomenology is well placed to prevent this issue going forward.
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#philsky #philpsy
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