Victor M. Verdejo

Very grateful to the fantastic speakers and onsite online audience for another inspiring exchange exploring thought sharing in communication and action, this time from the perspective of interactive perception and evaluative asymmetries. More coming soon! The project TSA is carried out with a Leonardo Grant from @FundacionBBVA , based at @HumanitatsUPF. upf.edu/web/thought-sh…

The deadline for the 2026 philosophy of memory essay prize has been extended to May 31! phil-mem.org/prize.php

🚨 Next week!! «Taller XXIII d'Investigació en Filosofia (TIF)». 📅 May 7-8, 2026 🏛️ Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences (Sala de Juntes). 🔗More info at: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/xxiii-ta…

You think you know what belief is? No! At best you have an accidentally true opinion, unless you've read @jontweetshere's and my edited collection, The Nature of Belief, hot off the press at OUP. (Also available open access at OUP's website.)

Several new volumes in my Elements in Philosophy of Mind series are coming out. Here's the first, a superb survey of debates on agency by Elizabeth Pacherie. Free to download till 11 May! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

This week! Another instalment of the TSA colloquium series, with Ophelia Deroy and Isidora Stojanovic. All welcome. upf.edu/web/thought-sh…

[New book] Justifying memory. Free online from 24th April 2026 - 8th May 2026. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

My first book is out with @CambUP_PHILNYUK ! “Sincerity and Insincerity” explores what sincerity demands, why it matters, and what falls in between — half-truths, omissions, deliberate misdirection, and more. Free download for 2 weeks 👇 doi.org/10.1017/978100…

Just read “The Abstraction Fallacy” (Lerchner). Interesting argument: AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness because computation is only a “map,” not the “territory.” A gentle pushback using Gilbert Ryle 🧵

How is it that perfectly competent speakers can disagree about whether the use of a term is derogatory? 🤔 Check out Teresa Marques's new entry on our Open Philosophy blog: "Derogation, Common Ground, and Why We Disagree"! 👉️ t.ly/3o0gh

[Please circulate] 📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant (online surveying & data analysis) for the ERC project COST-X @unito ‼️ Deadline approaching: 20 April 2026 🗓️ Looking for a stats-savvy candidate (R preferred) 12+12 months Details here: 👇 nerimarsili.com/uploads/2/5/9/…

I tant. I un mestre excel·lent, som tants els alumnes que vam gaudir de les seves classes a la UAB! Un intel·lectual de primer nivell! Es trobarà a faltar!

Last week I submitted my latest book manuscript to Cambridge (for their "Element" series of books about 100 pages long): AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview -- because you haven't heard nearly enough about AI and consciousness recently, of course! ;-) Maybe you'll 1/3

Sneak peek at our upcoming @MITPress Open Access volume, Embodied Intelligence, co-edited with Jennifer M. B. Fugate, Arsen Abdulali, and Josie Hughes (June 2026). This book represents a major transdisciplinary effort to rethink the boundaries of cognition and agency. Preview the Open Access volume here: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053495/… #EmbodiedIntelligence #CognitiveScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MITPress

I finally watched Pluribus. Then I entered a fugue state and wrote 3k words about it. Here's why I think it's not about AI, exactly (link below, you know the drill.)

definitely a spectrum. here's something i wrote about that: "Pretense and realization are very different in the human case, and likewise in the case of language models. Of course there is a spectrum of cases from realization to quasi-pretense. The quasi-psychological difference turns in large part on the strength of dispositions to maintain or drop character in relevant circumstances. Correspondingly, there is a spectrum of cases rom full quasi-belief and quasi-desire, which are "sticky" states that resist rejection (or at least are abandoned mainly through evidence or persuasion) to full quasi-pretense, which is easily abandoned for higher priorities even without evidence or persuasion."

In a paper started with #Dennett himself, Keith Frankish presents a thought experiment, the Emancipation of the Drone, to explore how #consciousness might develop without a central Cartesian Theater doi.org/10.1080/095150… open access #vol39issue3 11/16

Knowledge collapse?

Exciting news at BIAP! 🚨 Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA/UB) is officially our new Director! 🎉 We look forward to this new chapter in the life of BIAP 🚀 We are also very thankful to our outgoing director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB), for her work over the past years👏