Stories from the garden: The power of stories and the lure of a causal explanation

What is the relationship between hearing voices and having suicidal thoughts? How best can we support people in distress, without removing their agency? This short video was coproduced by Lisa Bortolotti, Fiona Malpass, Alex McCowen, Alessandra Losorbo and the people of the Voice Collective. Thank

In contemporary discussions of self-knowledge the primary way in which the other enters the scene is this: Our knowledge of the other figures as the contrast case that can help us get at the specifici...

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In this lecture, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (University of Birmingham) asks whether AI causes or exacerbates psychosis. The lecture was part of a workshop hosted by the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health, and sponsored by project EPIC, during British Philosophy Fortnight 2026 #philo

As part of a series of talks dedicated to the work of women in philosophy, Dr Carme Isern Mas from the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain argues that therapy speak can give rise to affective injustice. This lecture is supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that reason, being the one who says “it’s over” can be torturou...

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27TH INTERNATIONALNETWORK OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHIATRY CONFERENCEWhat can Philosophy do for Mental Health Care? SAVE THE DATE October 8 – 9, 2026 Nijmegen, the Netherlands Days Hours Minutes Seconds F...

In this paper, I outline the mechanisms of confabulation and how these mechanisms facilitate not only the maintenance of belief in conspiracy theories, but also their initial adoption. I argue by infe...

In this paper, I outline the mechanisms of confabulation and how these mechanisms facilitate not only the maintenance of belief in conspiracy theories, but also their initial adoption. I argue by infe...

Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ...

This is a warm invitation to a mini-workshop on 'When knowledge isn't power' in Philosophy Fortnight. Hosted by The Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) and Funded by Leverhulme Trust. Organi...

PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Belief ascription in Western contexts is typically guided by the congruency principle: believing something entails, ceteris paribus, acting and reasoning in accordance with that belief. Some people wi...

We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.