Call for chapter proposals - The OUP Handbook of Smell We are seeking chapter proposals of The OUP Handbook of Smell. The handbook will be edited by Jessica Freiherr, Andreas Keller, Kathrin...

The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

Worry is characterised by thinking about prospective negative future outcomes, and is a key cognitive feature of anxiety. The influential Cognitive Av…

The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

Odors are known to be potent cues of autobiographical memories. For each of us, particular smells, shaped by culture and life experiences, can bring the past vividly to mind. However, the specific nat...

Whereas human cognition develops through perceptually driven interactions with the environment, language models (LMs) are “disembodied learners” which…

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel

CRASSH symposium

Different species can sometimes collaborate to forage more efficiently. Sampaio et al. describe several examples of such cooperation in the animal world and provide insight into the ecological conditi...

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a bro...

Benjamin Young shares the 5 best books on smell and flavor. Have you read What the Nose Knows?

Abstract. Attention makes a phenomenal difference to visual experience, but the nature of this difference is controversial. There are three possibilities.

Cognition and behavior are emergent properties of brain systems that seek to maximize complex and adaptive behaviors while minimizing energy utilizati…

During food consumption, tastes combine with retronasal odours to form flavour, which leads to a link so robust that retronasal odours can elicit taste sensations without concurrent taste stimulation....

Up until the early 2000s, philosophical discussions of olfaction were rare. However, the recent effort to explore, and assess, the dominant visual model of theorizing about perception has produced a s...

SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.

Call For Papers: Olfactory Philosophy, April 30 - May 3, 2025 The Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno will be hosting a workshop on Olfactory Philosophy April 30 - May 3, 2025 a...

We invite submissions from scholars at all career stages to the first Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop, to be held on June 20-21, 2024 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and hybrid on Zoo...

Philip Gerrans reviews Cognitive Gadgets by Cecelia Heyes

Meditating has long been thought to enhance morality. But the type of meditation – and the aspects of morality – matter

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