Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience

The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

The Scent of Memory: Cultural Identity Through Odors in Brazil www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Philosophers on Bluesky who work on the chemical senses include @barrycsmith.bsky.social, @smellosopher.bsky.social, @benyoung.bsky.social, @asifamajid.bsky.social, @giuliamartina.bsky.social, @bexmillar.bsky.social, and me. See also my starter pack of philosophers of perception: go.bsky.app/B2HQDad

Cool new paper:

Representations of smells: The next frontier for language models? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ben @benyoung.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue on the philosophy of smell and taste. Whether you have worked on these intriguing senses before or want to get into them for the first time, this is your call! Bonus point: fully open access 👍

philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Call for Papers:
Philosophy and Chemosenses special issue of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (fully open access with no fees) edited by @giuliamartina.bsky.social and me. Deadline for submissions September 1.

Submit early and often for best results

philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

"Jews are capable of forming their own views about Israel, Palestine and everything else. We don’t need institutions to tell us what we must believe to be authentically Jewish."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pleased to say "Space, Time, and Memory", an academic book by Oxford University Press edited by the inimitable Lynn Nadel & Sara Aronowitz is now out.
I contributed a chapter, "Memory and Planning in Brains and Machines".
You can download the entire book for free:
library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Working from the summer office

For those around Cambridge check out this wonderful smell symposium:

Scents and imagination www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567...

And it was for an eye appointment including a prescription for reading glasses. Truly raging against the dying of … something … I cannot remember the rest.

Spring break reading

Spring break smells

The Philosophy department at the University of Nevada is hosting a cool lecture on April 14th.

Amia Srinivasan will be speaking on "Genealogies of Oppression: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Liberation".

The event is free and open to the public. If you're in or nearby Reno, NV, feel free to attend!

Great to see this new primer on the cognitive capacities that support multi-species sociality www.cell.com/current-biol...

The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu

For those interested in books about smell, taste, and flavor I made a short (eclectic) list of recommendations
shepherd.com/best-books/s...
#philosophy #perception #Smell #Taste

One more day to get your paper in.

Reached peak middle age standing in line on a Friday waiting for Costco to open to avoid the weekend crowds.

Visual attention and representational content academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

The metabolic costs of cognition

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#PhilSky #PhilPerception #taste #flavor #smell