Alfredo Vernazzani
@alfredovernazzani.bsky.social
Researcher at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg. Phil of perception, mental representations; Aesthetics; Epistemology of understanding. Antifascist activist at ANPI.
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What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The attention market—and what is wrong with it - Philosophical Studies
Attention is described as a “scarce commodity” that is traded in “a marketplace.” This, it is further claimed, contributes to a “widespread sense of attentional crisis.” But is there really an attenti...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
When we are recollecting a story, what discerns all are other memories from being forgotten or merely being inaccessible at that moment? Today at The Memory Palace, Jessie Munton discusses what constitutes forgetting and its many uses in our lives.
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Is forgetting discovered or created?
Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)
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November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Some pics of my public speech on the history of antifascism in Italy before and after 1943. I talked about the Arditi del popolo, my grandfather, and the many secrets of the past that still shape our present lives.
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Some pics of my public speech on the history of antifascism in Italy before and after 1943. I talked about the Arditi del popolo, my grandfather, and the many secrets of the past that still shape our present lives.
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@dryan149.bsky.social and I have published a paper on how we should all be a little less like Holden Caufield (i.e. obsessed with the idea of authenticity) and a bit more like María Lugones (i.e. celebrating our multiple facets)
🚨New Paper!🚨
Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't!
We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes.
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Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't!
We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@dryan149.bsky.social and I have published a paper on how we should all be a little less like Holden Caufield (i.e. obsessed with the idea of authenticity) and a bit more like María Lugones (i.e. celebrating our multiple facets)
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The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
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and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
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Is enemyship just inverted friendship? Or is it a sui generis category.
Check out "Enemies" by Rebecca Roman Hanrahan & Walter Ott.
They explore conceptual, taxonomical, and normative questions about having enemies.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/apa....
Check out "Enemies" by Rebecca Roman Hanrahan & Walter Ott.
They explore conceptual, taxonomical, and normative questions about having enemies.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/apa....
Enemies | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Enemies - Volume 11 Issue 4
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November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Is enemyship just inverted friendship? Or is it a sui generis category.
Check out "Enemies" by Rebecca Roman Hanrahan & Walter Ott.
They explore conceptual, taxonomical, and normative questions about having enemies.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/apa....
Check out "Enemies" by Rebecca Roman Hanrahan & Walter Ott.
They explore conceptual, taxonomical, and normative questions about having enemies.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/apa....
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This absolutely breaks your heart in just under three minutes, then leaves you to get on with your day like nothing has happened
Ólafur Arnalds - Alice Enters
Taken from “Another Happy Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” by Ólafur ArnaldsOrder it from Erased Tapes: https://bit.ly/ERATP038Listen on Spotify: ht...
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January 7, 2024 at 8:29 PM
This absolutely breaks your heart in just under three minutes, then leaves you to get on with your day like nothing has happened
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"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
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November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
Our paper on perceptual habits has now been published open access. You can download it here:
#philsky #philosophy
#philsky #philosophy
Habit-Like Forms of Perceptual Learning - Topoi
In the growing literature on perceptual learning, most researchers assume it to be a form of skill. In this paper, we argue that at least some forms of perceptual learning are better understood as hab...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our paper on perceptual habits has now been published open access. You can download it here:
#philsky #philosophy
#philsky #philosophy
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Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like…
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like…
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like public, external representations, such as texts, pictures and maps, internal representations carry contents (i.e. they are about something) and are implemented by vehicles (i.e., physical states that realize them).
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October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like…
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like…
Happening next week in Bochum!
I'll speak about the story of Italian anti-fascism, and present snippets from my book-in-progress on my trips to uncover the history of my family. All are welcome!
I'll speak about the story of Italian anti-fascism, and present snippets from my book-in-progress on my trips to uncover the history of my family. All are welcome!
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Happening next week in Bochum!
I'll speak about the story of Italian anti-fascism, and present snippets from my book-in-progress on my trips to uncover the history of my family. All are welcome!
I'll speak about the story of Italian anti-fascism, and present snippets from my book-in-progress on my trips to uncover the history of my family. All are welcome!
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🚨 New article in #NCONSC
Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
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#consciousness
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Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
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#consciousness
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Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
Abstract. Affective stimuli, such as fearful faces, are assumed to receive prioritized processing over neutral stimuli, making them easier to detect when p
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October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🚨 New article in #NCONSC
Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
#consciousness
🧠🧪
Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
#consciousness
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Fantastic commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's BBS paper by @renrutmailliw.bsky.social, @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & Hinze Hogendoorn. Hits lots of nails on the head. As @neddo.bsky.social & I also argue: postdiction doesn't prove consciousness is slow! 1/3
New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb
OSF
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October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Fantastic commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's BBS paper by @renrutmailliw.bsky.social, @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & Hinze Hogendoorn. Hits lots of nails on the head. As @neddo.bsky.social & I also argue: postdiction doesn't prove consciousness is slow! 1/3
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Online Now: How miscommunication can improve collective performance in social insects
How miscommunication can improve collective performance in social insects
Communication errors are typically viewed as detrimental, yet they can benefit collective foraging in social insects. Temnothorax ants provide a powerful model for studying how such errors arise during tandem running and how they might improve group performance under certain environmental conditions.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Online Now: How miscommunication can improve collective performance in social insects
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Tomorrow (October 29th) at 7:00 pm EDT, join the @ganativeplants.bsky.social's virtual event with @jaapderoode.bsky.social, where he will discuss his book, Doctors by Nature, and how animals discover and harness medicine in nature.
Register for this free event here: gnps.org/calendar-eve...
Register for this free event here: gnps.org/calendar-eve...
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Tomorrow (October 29th) at 7:00 pm EDT, join the @ganativeplants.bsky.social's virtual event with @jaapderoode.bsky.social, where he will discuss his book, Doctors by Nature, and how animals discover and harness medicine in nature.
Register for this free event here: gnps.org/calendar-eve...
Register for this free event here: gnps.org/calendar-eve...
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Highlight from our symposium on laws of appearance today. Lots of participants and hectic discussion on my proposed laws of appearance!
Photo credit to @remisramos.bsky.social
#ispsm25
Photo credit to @remisramos.bsky.social
#ispsm25
October 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Highlight from our symposium on laws of appearance today. Lots of participants and hectic discussion on my proposed laws of appearance!
Photo credit to @remisramos.bsky.social
#ispsm25
Photo credit to @remisramos.bsky.social
#ispsm25
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Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to impose meaningful consequences on the Israeli government, including appropriate sanctions, enforcement of ICJ and ICC rulings and warrants, and withholding of arms. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Jews Demand Action
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October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to impose meaningful consequences on the Israeli government, including appropriate sanctions, enforcement of ICJ and ICC rulings and warrants, and withholding of arms. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
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Hey everyone, a reminder to submit to our special issue on smell, taste and flavour! Deadline 1st November!
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Call for Papers: Philosophy and Chemosenses
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October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Hey everyone, a reminder to submit to our special issue on smell, taste and flavour! Deadline 1st November!
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
The symposium on "Laws of Appearance: Between Contingency and Necessity" will take place this Sunday at ISPSM 25, online - GMT Time 15:15 - 17:15.
Panelists:
Ned Block
Alfredo Vernazzani
EJ Green
If you'd like to participate, please contact me for the link!
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy
Panelists:
Ned Block
Alfredo Vernazzani
EJ Green
If you'd like to participate, please contact me for the link!
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The symposium on "Laws of Appearance: Between Contingency and Necessity" will take place this Sunday at ISPSM 25, online - GMT Time 15:15 - 17:15.
Panelists:
Ned Block
Alfredo Vernazzani
EJ Green
If you'd like to participate, please contact me for the link!
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy
Panelists:
Ned Block
Alfredo Vernazzani
EJ Green
If you'd like to participate, please contact me for the link!
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy
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I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate in Philosophy
College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Research Associate in PhilosophyVacancy Reference: 184814Salary: Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum We have an opportunity for a Research Associ...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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"Easy Practical Knowledge" by Timothy R. Kearl and J. Adam Carter
#openaccess #onlinefirst #newarticle #philosophy #philsky
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#openaccess #onlinefirst #newarticle #philosophy #philsky
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Easy Practical Knowledge - published on October 16, 2025
We explore new connections between the epistemologies of mental rehearsal and suppositional reasoning to offer a novel perspective on skilled behavior and its relationship to practical knowledge. We a...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"Easy Practical Knowledge" by Timothy R. Kearl and J. Adam Carter
#openaccess #onlinefirst #newarticle #philosophy #philsky
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#openaccess #onlinefirst #newarticle #philosophy #philsky
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My paper "Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception" has been published open access today on Mind & Language.
You can download it from here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #perception
You can download it from here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #perception
October 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
My paper "Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception" has been published open access today on Mind & Language.
You can download it from here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #perception
You can download it from here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #perception
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This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
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@alfredovernazzani.bsky.social joining us in our Brazilian Philosophy of Mind Research Group to talk about laws of appearance!
October 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
@alfredovernazzani.bsky.social joining us in our Brazilian Philosophy of Mind Research Group to talk about laws of appearance!