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Marilyn Stendera

@marilynstendera.bsky.social
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Lecturer in philosophy at Wollongong, views my own. She/her. Phenomenology, cognition, time. Lover of sci fi, horror, metal, games. Check out my work: philpeople.org/profiles/marilyn-ste…

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DiverseGrief @diverse-grief.bsky.social · 16h
This week on the Diverse Grief Blog: Louise Richardson-Self (@lvself.bsky.social) reflects on complicated grief, grief scripts, and the harms of bionormativity. diverse-grief.com/2026/09/18/g...
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Grieving Off-Script: Making Sense of Blended Family Bereavement - Diverse Grief
By Louise Richardson-Self I lost a parent in 2013. This loss was complicated – not simply because grief is complicated, but because our relationship was complicated. I lost my ex-step-dad. He dropped ...
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Philosophy of Grief and Loss at York @griefyork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The most recent issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is on 'Grief in the Digital Age', edited by @reginafabry.bsky.social and @marilynstendera.bsky.social. Deathbots (or griefbots), virtual memorials, video games and more. link.springer.com/journal/1109...
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Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is an international and interdisciplinary journal that published papers that address the philosophical and scientific ...
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm very excited to share my latest paper, which has just been published (open access!) in Synthese. In "Synthetic Temporalities", I explore how using AI might impact the relationship between knowledge, agency, and time. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Synthetic temporalities – phenomenological perspectives on epistemic agency, time, and AI - Synthese
This paper will explore the kind of insights that the phenomenological tradition and its various conceptualisations of the temporalities of agency might have to offer for thinking about our increasing...
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DiverseGrief @diverse-grief.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How can griefbots impact the complex temporalities of grief? @marilynstendera.bsky.social discusses this question in the current episode of the Undisciplinary podcast. #philsky undisciplinary.buzzsprout.com/1104002/epis...
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Griefbots And Grief Time: a conversation with Marilyn Stendera - Undisciplinary
We talk with philosopher Marilyn Stendera about grief as a disruption of lived time and why AI griefbots raise questions that go beyond simple “deception” claims. Stendera talks us through how Heidegg...
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Regina Fabry @reginafabry.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
DiverseGrief @diverse-grief.bsky.social is now live! Through this account, the wonderful @marilynstendera.bsky.social and I will share new insights into the diversity and variability of grief. Please follow, share, and engage! #philsky
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DiverseGrief @diverse-grief.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences titled "Grief in the Digital Age," edited by @reginafabry.bsky.social and @marilynstendera.bsky.social, has now been published in full. 1/2 #philsky link.springer.com/journal/1109...
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Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm thrilled to announce that the Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on 'Grief and the Digital Age' that the wonderful @reginafabry.bsky.social and I have co-edited is now complete! You can find the 12 papers and our editorial intro here: link.springer.com/collections/...
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Grief in the Digital Age
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences entitled Grief in the Digital Age. The special ...
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Dave Ward @philosodave.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Want to know what 'enactivism' is? Consider reading my new paper, 'What is Enactivism?', open access in Adaptive Behavior! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Short version: It's what Varela, Thompson & Rosch said it was in 'The Embodied Mind' ages ago. Slightly longer version... 1/
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sydney friends! Emily and I are thrilled to be launching the paperback edition of our book at Better Read than Dead on the 28th of March, and we would absolutely love to have you there! We'll be on from 6pm, and will joined by the magnificent Annie Sandrussi. All welcome - please register here:
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Heidegger's Alternative History of Time: Emily Hughes and Marilyn Stendera in-conversation with Annie Sandrussi | Better Read Events
Join us with Emily Hughes and Marilyn Stendera to celebrate the release of Heidegger's Alternative History of Time! Emily and Marilyn will be in-conversation with Annie Sandrussi.
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Regina Fabry @reginafabry.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
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The diversity and variability of grief
Two scholarships are offered for candidates with a background in philosophy or a cognate discipline to study the diversity and variability of grief experiences.
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I'm excited to share my last paper of 2025, which is out now in Human Studies. This one means a lot to me, as I draw on my own experience of synaesthesia in grappling with Merleau-Ponty's claim that 'synaesthetic perception is the rule'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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‘Phenomenology’ is Blue: The Synaesthetic Dynamics of Being-in-the-World - Human Studies
Human Studies - Synaesthesia, in which particular perceptual or cognitive stimuli trigger anomalous secondary sensations, has proven to be remarkably difficult to explain. The way it complicates...
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) @aussoccontiphil.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Letter in support of Joanne Faulkner on behalf of the ASCP executive: ascp.org.au/news/stateme...
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Letter in support of Joanne Faulkner
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) @aussoccontiphil.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
FINAL REMINDER TO REGISTER FOR ASCP 2025!! 🙏👽 Please register by Monday, November 17 to keep your spot on the programme: ascp.org.au/ascp-confere...
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ASCP Conference 2025 - Individual Registration
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...
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the relationscape
Macquarie University, Sydney – 11th and 12th of December 2025
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
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Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
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Regina Fabry @reginafabry.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How do chatbots based on Large Language Models impact our self-narrative practices? We will explore this question in a workshop titled "Self-Narration in the Age of Conversational Chatbots." The workshop will take place at Macquarie University on 21 November 2025. sites.google.com/view/human-c...
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Human-Chatbot Self-Narration
21 November 2025 Michael Kirby Building 330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally's Walk (in-person only) Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University Organiser: Dr Regina Fabry Contact: regina.fabry@mq.edu.au
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Come join a whole bunch of wonderful people talking about cool things at Unimelb (and online) in November! Get in touch with us via conference@ascp.org.au if you have any questions. (Plus: you're a student or ECR without funding, consider applying for our bursary!)
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm pleased to share my latest paper, which has just been published (Open Access) in Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences. It explores how 'griefbots' - AI chatbots trained to impersonate the dead - might impact the temporal phenomenology of grief.
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Marking time: griefbots, world-time, and the phenomenology of bereavement - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Bereavement has long been recognised as an experience of profound temporal disruption, unravelling and even severing the connections, meanings, and strategies we habitually use in navigating time. The...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994
Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Sydney turned out for Palestine today. An honour to be a part of this massive crowd.
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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 ‘The Opium of the Lasses: Beauvoir’s Revaluation of Love in The Second Sex’ academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
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The Opium of the Lasses: Beauvoir’s Revaluation of Love in The Second Sex
Abstract. This paper argues that Beauvoir’s The Second Sex offers a genealogy of the morality of sexual hierarchy in which love plays a central role. In di
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) @aussoccontiphil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#CFP: The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2025 will be held at the University of Melbourne Parkville campus (November 24–26) and online (November 21) Submission deadline: August 31 For more information: ascp.org.au/conference #ASCP2025 #AusSocContiPhil
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ASCP Conference 2025
UniMelb 24-26 November
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Regina Fabry @reginafabry.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Now out Open Access: My new article on human-deathbot interactions! doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/3
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The disruption of grief in the technological niche: The case of deathbots - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Recently, philosophical research on grief and the impact of technological resources on its structure and quality has gained momentum. Deathbots, chatbots based on generative Large Language Models that...
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 28/05/2025
Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
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Can’t take it with you
I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
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Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@reginafabry.bsky.social citing my bible in her amazing talk on the case of counter- self-narration 😍
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Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@marilynstendera.bsky.social using Beauvoir to make sense of games as existential imaginative practices.
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Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So excited to see @bexmillar.bsky.social at the Narrative and Beyond workshop at Macquarie University today!!
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
So thrilled to have Pat's magnificent contribution as the first published paper of our Special Issue!
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Regina Fabry @reginafabry.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You are cordially invited to register for an in-person workshop titled “Narratives and Beyond: Negotiating Experiences through Imaginative Practices,” which takes place at Macquarie University, Sydney on 22 and 23 April 2025. #philsky sites.google.com/view/narrati... 1/4
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Narrative and Beyond
Throughout cultural history, human agents have engaged in imaginative practices of meaning-making to negotiate their experiences of loss, disruption, and alienation. From storytelling to painting, fro...
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Regina Fabry @reginafabry.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
How can we integrate epistemological and ethical considerations on AI technologies? We will discuss this question in an upcoming workshop at the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre in Sydney on 28 February 2025. www.eventbrite.com/e/epistemic-... 1/3
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Epistemic Agency in the Age of AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This Workshop will showcase cutting-edge research and forge new connections between the epistemology and ethics of AI technologies.
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Riri @alienbycomics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A little history lesson reminding you that trans people have always existed! 🏳️‍⚧️ #transhistory #lgbthistory #inanna #ishtar #transartist #indiecomics #mesopotamia #transgender
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Pat McConville @ptmcconville.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
In the new episode of the Concept : Art podcast, I speak with @marilynstendera.bsky.social about enactivism, embodiment, and the gorier (art) stuff. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or online at our website (www.conceptartpodcast.com).
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Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
It's here!!! The electronic version of my book with the wonderful Emily Hughes is out now! Please consider asking your library to order it - it makes a huge difference. If you want to review it, or don't have library access & want to read it, get in touch! www.routledge.com/Heideggers-A...
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Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time
This book reconstructs Heidegger’s philosophy of time by reading his work with and against a series of key interlocutors that he nominates as being central to his own critical history of time. In doin...
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 15/02/2024
See also this excellent list curated by Sonia Sulaiman soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 27/12/2023
Support request to help get some Palestinian folks to safety. Please share and contribute here if you have the means to do so: gofund.me/be9b0f2d #FreePalestine 🇵🇸💔
Tweet from Alana Lentin that says: “My Western Sydney University colleague, Dr Ayah Abubasheer, is fundraising to get her 8 family members out of Gaza. Please help by donating and sharing the link widely to your network. You can read a detailed account of their case via the link in this post.
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