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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 3d

Inspiring days (and nights) of philosophy and friendship at the very successful @sefa2025.bsky.social Really grateful to Jesús Navarro, @danipino.bsky.social and rest of organisers for such a wonderful time in breathtaking Sevilla.

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 3d

Nice pic! 🙂

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 4d

Greetings from the METIS team! 💚
Many thanks to SEFA and the local organizers at the @unisevilla.bsky.social for these wonderful days, full of inspiring encounters with friends and colleagues. A real pleasure to share ideas, debates, and great moments with all of you. See you soon!

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 12d

For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do).

philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6

Dario Mortini, Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - PhilPapers

Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A novel and increasin...

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Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social · 7d

Off to Seville for the Congress of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy today — a very rich programme of talks over three days spanning many areas of philosophy.

XI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica

XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA). This event aims to bring together scholars working within the Analytic tradition of Philosophy. The 2025 edition will take place at t...

eventos.us.es

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 15d

Just arrived!! Sharing Thoughts in the flesh at last. 💫🥹🥳

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 20d

Thought Sharing in Action (TSA) is one of 59 projects selected by the Leonardo Grant scheme in 2025. We aim to approach sharing and communication in I-You interactions from a fresh, empirically informed angle. An associated 12-month postdoc will be called soon! www.redleonardo.es/beneficiario...

Víctor-Martín Verdejo Aparicio, becario Leonardo 2025 en filosofía

Beca otorgada para realizar el proyecto 'Thought sharing in action: A naturalistic approach (TSA)'

www.redleonardo.es

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you, Tom!

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you, Alfredo!

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks, Giulia! :)

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 26d

"Is there a shareability requirement on successful communication, disagreement or the transmission of knowledge? More generally, how should we understand the communication and coordination of our thoughts in exchanges with others?"

#philsky

Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 27d

Well yes! Sharing Thoughts is now published!! @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

With amazing fresh pieces from C Peacocke, I Dickie, G Longworth, F Recanati, J Pollock, M García-Carpintero, S Sawyer, S Prosser, L and F Schroeter, A Onofri, JL Bermúdez, R Goodman, A Gray.

academic.oup.com/book/60759

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Nic Porot @nicporot.bsky.social · 25d

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out.

doi.org/10.21428/e27...

The Language of Thought Hypothesis

doi.org

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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 27d

Really excited to be co-editing this transdisciplinary research topic at the interface of collective human trauma and Earth systems Change. Please share! And get in touch to discuss ideas if you are thinking of submitting something.
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

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Michelle Liu @michelleybliu.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm in London till the end of this year and will be hosting this workshop with Robyn Carston in December. Come and say hi!

Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives - PhilEvents share.google/dYgWGjAebsH9...

Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives

The concept expressed by a word on a specific occasion often diverges from the concept encoded by the word. In recent years, this divergence has been the centra...

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Joey Pollock @joeykpollock.bsky.social · 27d

Honoured to be included in this volume, continuing my longstanding campaign to reanimate semantic holism.

Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 27d

Well yes! Sharing Thoughts is now published!! @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

With amazing fresh pieces from C Peacocke, I Dickie, G Longworth, F Recanati, J Pollock, M García-Carpintero, S Sawyer, S Prosser, L and F Schroeter, A Onofri, JL Bermúdez, R Goodman, A Gray.

academic.oup.com/book/60759

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 27d

The introduction by Matheus and me contains a roadmap of the fascinating issues and chapters. Freely available now!

academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...

@mthsvlnt.bsky.social @joeykpollock.bsky.social @simonprosser.bsky.social @guylongworth.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @vlc-lab.bsky.social

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 27d

Well yes! Sharing Thoughts is now published!! @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

With amazing fresh pieces from C Peacocke, I Dickie, G Longworth, F Recanati, J Pollock, M García-Carpintero, S Sawyer, S Prosser, L and F Schroeter, A Onofri, JL Bermúdez, R Goodman, A Gray.

academic.oup.com/book/60759

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Guy Longworth @guylongworth.bsky.social · 29d

Thinking Together, freshly published version. academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...

Thinking Together

AbstractWhat would it be for one person to think with another? How should we understand the idea of people thinking together and so sharing their thinking

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Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez @adrianaalsa.bsky.social · Aug 26

Can you be aware of nothing while you are asleep? I wrote a new piece on dreamless sleep experiences for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/can-you-be-a.... I also talk about some of the exciting findings from @tecferrer.bsky.social's research.
Supported by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

Can you be aware of nothing? The rare sleep experience scientists are trying to understand

Western theories of consciousness tend to assume consciousness is about information.

theconversation.com

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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · Sep 6

The @logos-group.bsky.social staying at Logos, of course (pic with @martajorba.bsky.social and Daphne Bernués).

Happy memories of #ESPP2025 from Warsaw. Congratulations to @mmilkowski.bsky.social and his fabulous team for an unforgettable conference!

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PrzemekNowakowski @przemnowa.bsky.social · Sep 5

Really great symposium led by Emily Sullivan, with Michael Franke (@meanwhileina.bsky.social) and Bojana Grujičić on "LLMs and Human Reasoning"
#ESPP2025 IFiS PAN, Warsaw

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Marcin Miłkowski @mmilkowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

@cameronbuckner.bsky.social delivers his keynote on reasoning LLMs during #ESPP2025

Cameron Buckner delivers a keynote (Pałac Staszica, Warsaw 2025)

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Martin Zach @mzach.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's a guest piece (credits to @vtgvzdk.bsky.social ) which draws on a report we wrote together for the Czech media (it may yet come out) regarding the results of a national representative survey we did on the issue of how #philosophy is perceived by the public.
dailynous.com/2025/09/03/h...

How the Public Sees Philosophy: Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic (guest post) - Daily Nous

What do ordinary people think philosophy is for? That's one of the questions a pair of philosophers, Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Zach (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) aimed to answer. ...

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Alex Fisher @alex-fisher.bsky.social · Aug 21

Actors, videogame players and VR users often experience *imaginative contagion* - imaginatively adopted attitudes persist into daily life.

My paper explains why this occurs and answers the concern that it may result in our acquiring immoral attitudes.

doi.org/10.1111/phpr.70056

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Imaginative contagion and moral corruption

Imaginatively adopted attitudes and ways of thinking sometimes persist, bleeding into day-to-day thoughts and interactions. Such imaginative contagion is often reported in the context of theatrical a...

doi.org

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Alfredo Vernazzani @alfredovernazzani.bsky.social · Aug 10

Mark your calendar!
I'm organizing a symposium on laws of appearance with @neddo.bsky.social (Ned Block) and EJ Green.

October 26 from 4:15 - 6:15 pm (CEST)
@ispsm.bsky.social

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