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 ...

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is an international and interdisciplinary journal that published papers that address the philosophical and scientific ...

Philosophical grief research frequently draws on literary autobiographical grief narratives to motivate or substantiate assumptions about the phenomenology of grief. Yet, this research has not prov...

This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.

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...

Kunstig intelligens er begyndt at løse matematiske problemer, som mennesker har kæmpet med i årtier. Dermed opstår ifølge matematikfilosoffen Markus Pantsar et nyt problem: Hvad er matematikken værd, ...

This paper examines the systemic underdiagnosis of endometriosis as a case study of how the medical niche scaffolds epistemic and affective injustices against cisgender women. Drawing on Fricker’s ...

This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.

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...

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration. This special issue aims to ...

This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is an international and interdisciplinary journal that published papers that address the philosophical and scientific ...

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences entitled Grief in the Digital Age. The special ...

Two scholarships are offered for candidates with a background in philosophy or a cognate discipline to study the diversity and variability of grief experiences.

Synthese - The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their...

Two scholarships are offered for candidates with a background in philosophy or a cognate discipline to study the diversity and variability of grief experiences.

According to 4E cognitive science, our cognitive capacities depend on, and have been transformed by, the environments we have made. Most early works of 4E cognitive science tend to focus on ...

Was viele seit Beginn der Kanzlerschaft von Friedrich Merz als Backlash bezeichnen, ist gar keiner: Wir sind beim Feminismus nur nicht weit genug vorangekommen.

Macquarie University, Sydney – 11th and 12th of December 2025

Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...

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

Topoi - Self-narration, many philosophers assume, is an important practice for self-understanding and meaning-making. However, self-narration does not occur in an ideologically neutral space, but...

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

Are you keen to contribute to a better understanding of the social, political and epistemic impact of disruptive technologies such as the Internet and AI? Join our interdisciplinary research project f...

Building on Hannah Arendt’s insights, storytelling is presented not merely as a literary form, but as a fundamental mode of human existence and meaning-making. However, as Yuval Harari and Byung-Chul ...

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration. This special issue aims to ...

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...

Christopher Jude McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.

Richard Heersmink argues that self-narratives are distributed across embodied organisms and their environment, given that their building blocks, autobiographical memories, are distributed. This argum...

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences entitled Grief in the Digital Age. The special ...

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...