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The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View: doi.org/10.1080/0004...

This has been a long process of over five years of rewriting, rethinking, revising, and resubmitting. So happy that this is finally out there in the world.

Het was een geweldige interview voor Trouw over chronische pijn, het ontbreken van fysiologische oorzaken en de rol van sociale acceptatie. Het is ook mijn eerste Artikel in het Nederlands: www.trouw.nl/verdieping/d...

For all the pain researchers: There is an interesting Call for Papers on Chronic Pain and Social Justice (edited by @jadawlittle-phd.bsky.social). Check it out: kiej.georgetown.edu/special-issu...

Quite excited to be a speaker at the ISPSM conference this year. Submission is still open until the 01.05.2025 👇

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Yes, the central idea is that distinguishing psychological and physical pain by means of their cause - being located either in the mind or the body - is flawed. Both are biopsychosocial phenomena. They might still differ in other interesting ways but in this sense they are more similar.

It has been great writing this piece with @peterstilwell.bsky.social about the mind-body divide and why it is often misleading to speak of 'physical' vs. 'psychological' pain.

I enjoyed in Aarhus the most taking a walk/run to the docklands and then further north to the beaches. Also the Moesgaard Museum about human evolution is pretty great and unique!

The side-quests are almost the best about it! But maybe it is just a person with the same issue talking 😀

My book Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science is now available for pre-order! Please consider pre-ordering and reviewing the book! So thrilled to share it with the world!!!
www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-S...

Check out this great collection of papers just coming out on 'Scaffolding Bad'. Especially excited about all the amazing work on narratives!

The introduction to the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi is out! (This is by me, Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton, the co-editors.) All but two of the papers are out too, and those last ones are in the production pipeline.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The moral significance of #consciousness or #sentience in artificial systems is one of the topics we'll discuss at our workshop “Evaluating Artificial Consciousness”:
eac-2025.sciencesconf.org
10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum

Just a reminder, the deadline for abstracts for our special collecting in Adaptive Behaviour on "Prospects for the Science of Enaction" is two weeks away! #philsky #cogsci #philmind #philsci journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...