Sam Wilkinson

New in @CogNPsychiatry: Towards a unified, yet pluralistic, account of Capgras’ delusion tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… From @NormanPoole and @samljwilkinson

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Sofiia Rappe junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/11/3…

New episode! I speak with Sam Wilkinson (@samljwilkinson) of the University of Exeter about his work on auditory verbal hallucinations and the philosophy of psychiatry, among other topics. Available now in your preferred podcast player or right here: philosophyandtherapy.com/1570933/episod…

Workshop "Getting Your Act Together I: Self-Regulation and Agency" at Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, 19th & 20th September 2024. Organized tog. w. @martajorba_phil

This is an incredible piece of work by @JonathanPieNews. From the research, to the sequencing, to the performance. You want to know why so many people are turning away from vapid MSM and looking to political comedy & alternative news? Look no further. 👇

Today is the 8th anniversary of the Brexit vote. Eight years on from that date, an overwhelming majority think that Brexit has been detrimental for the UK. Whether NHS, trade, travel, immigration, rights, water standards, business - Brexit has made them all worse. All that is left is the intangible notion of “sovereignty” dangling in the air. But what is this sovereignty and how do we use it to make any practical gain? If sovereignty is the power over our own affairs - we have clearly lost /mis-invested it through Brexit. Our businesses have lost their power to trade freely across Europe, our citizens lost the power to travel and work freely- and our government and public have lost their representation in the Council & Parliament where the shared affairs of our continent are discussed. So by pulling all our sovereignty out of those investments and back into our English executive, what have we gained? Answer: The power to do things differently from the European consensus on matters that we used to agree we should decide multi-laterally. Great, so then we come back to the 8-year-old question of “what do we want to do differently on matters where we used to agree?” — and over 8 years, we’ve had no pragmatic answer to that question. Trade? We just copied the EU’s deals, apart from Australia where we signed a loss-making deal. Regulations? Our businesses don’t want to diverge (look at failure of UKCA and Labour saying they’d scrap UK-REACH for the same reason). Control of immigration? It’s gone up - and we don’t even get UK citizen travel rights in return. On all fronts, the sovereignty we pulled out of our EU investment and put in executive hands has cost us big losses and gained us absolutely nothing. At the end of the day, many proponents of Brexit pushed the idea because it appealed to them aesthetically - an excited hope that by casting off a set of responsibilities they could pursue selfish interest and profit mightily. But, the gold they presumed was there just wasn’t. Only a mess. And that is the summary of Brexit — a modern version of the fable of the goose that laid the golden egg. Only in our case… this isn’t the end of the road. We can go back - wiser than before— and we will.

Starmer has written in the Express that he will not restore Freedom of Movement. Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored. We were robbed of our right to live, work, study and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

If you're around Rijeka next week, join us at TIPPS Workshop 1! We will have several presentations by our special guests, but also by our very own Nirvana! #TIPPSWorkshop #CognitiveScience #Psychiatry

#9 OUT What is cognitive science? Why conceptualise the mind like a computer? What are some issues with this approach? @adigitaltanay & @smallestsnippet discuss this & much more with one of the founding members of @InstitutNicod Pierre Jacob open.spotify.com/episode/7cpbUe…

New theory paper led by @OrbenAmy on cognitive and neural mechanisms that are developing in adolescence and might make young people particularly vulnerable to aspects of social media

INACT webpage—about our project on inner speech, thought, mental action, affordances, mental health… And info about project team, publications and activities: upf.edu/web/inact/

A friend of mine is doing a study to assess public and professional awareness of psychosis and psychotic disorders. If you have 10 minutes to spare, help her out and fill the survey! Thanks! goldpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50…

I'm very happy to share a new paper on the philosophy of psychotherapy: "On the Myth of Psychotherapy". To appear in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. philpapers.org/rec/FREOTM Many think that mental illness is a myth. Is psychotherapy a myth too? What does that even mean?

The new report that spells out the waste and muddle of the UK’s response to Brexit theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-report…

Here is a recording of Dominic Murphy's lecture, Can the sea eagle make you sick?, where he discusses the relationship between mental health and culture. It was part of our @PTRbirmingham activities funded by @RIPhilo. Enjoy and share widely! buff.ly/3uTFeKU

Have we evolved to love our ingroup? Did our ancestors go through an evolutionary process of self-domestication? Is the occasional genocide just an unfortunate by-product of how damn friendly we are? New essay 👇and thread: 1/15 conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-survival…

In most of my papers, I ramble on about time-consciousness and its importance for our understanding of consciousness. But that is only half of the story! As I see it, temporality and affectivity come together. In this new paper, I explain why. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Postdoc advertisement, project TIPPS: Fancy joining us for a while in Rijeka to do some philosophy of psychology and psychiatry? Please apply to this call: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/193732