Giulia Martina
@giuliamartina.bsky.social
Philosopher of perception and mind at the University of Nottingham. Interested in all things perceptual.
Webpage: https://gmphilosophy.wixsite.com/giuliamartina
Webpage: https://gmphilosophy.wixsite.com/giuliamartina
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Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊
Me: Why are the guy's papers so long and so many?!? 😭
Writer of his memorial notice:
Writer of his memorial notice:
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Me: Why are the guy's papers so long and so many?!? 😭
Writer of his memorial notice:
Writer of his memorial notice:
Why did this man write so much though?!? Average lenght of papers is 60 pages and he's in *every* Aristotelian Society Symposium.
Putting together a new historical paper (hey 20th century counts as history) and in the next 10 days I have to turn a whole of notes and quotes into a 10,000 word paper. Aka stop reading and write! Documenting progress here for accountability.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Why did this man write so much though?!? Average lenght of papers is 60 pages and he's in *every* Aristotelian Society Symposium.
Have been having crumpets for breakfast and realising how much I missed that texture. Still no clue how it's achieved as it seems unreal.
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Have been having crumpets for breakfast and realising how much I missed that texture. Still no clue how it's achieved as it seems unreal.
Putting together a new historical paper (hey 20th century counts as history) and in the next 10 days I have to turn a whole of notes and quotes into a 10,000 word paper. Aka stop reading and write! Documenting progress here for accountability.
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Putting together a new historical paper (hey 20th century counts as history) and in the next 10 days I have to turn a whole of notes and quotes into a 10,000 word paper. Aka stop reading and write! Documenting progress here for accountability.
Took myself to the playground aka the new exhibition The Secret Power of Scents at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Smells to bring new life to the collection and its history...and a lot of fun. Was grinning the whole time Thread of highlights!
www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die...
www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die...
The Secret Power of Scents - Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
www.kunstpalast.de
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Took myself to the playground aka the new exhibition The Secret Power of Scents at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Smells to bring new life to the collection and its history...and a lot of fun. Was grinning the whole time Thread of highlights!
www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die...
www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die...
Reposted by Giulia Martina
📢Time is running out to enter the #Philosophy Essay Prize for 2025.⏳
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢Time is running out to enter the #Philosophy Essay Prize for 2025.⏳
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
Guys, this is now less than 14,000. Merciless!
So my paper needs cutting down (surprise). Will be posting updates for accountability. Starting at 17,356 words.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Guys, this is now less than 14,000. Merciless!
Doing a 3-hour taster course of Mandarin starting today. Have modest goals, i.e. learning how to pronounce zha jiang mian and Sun Yingsha properly, and if you know you know.
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Doing a 3-hour taster course of Mandarin starting today. Have modest goals, i.e. learning how to pronounce zha jiang mian and Sun Yingsha properly, and if you know you know.
I will say: for many papers, there is a reason why we forgot about them.
Little gets me more excited than discovering a little paper from the 30s or 50s in Mind or the Proceedings called 'Appearing' or 'Seeing' or 'Perception and thought'. Afraid I'm becoming a very British philosopher...and also getting older 😁
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I will say: for many papers, there is a reason why we forgot about them.
Little gets me more excited than discovering a little paper from the 30s or 50s in Mind or the Proceedings called 'Appearing' or 'Seeing' or 'Perception and thought'. Afraid I'm becoming a very British philosopher...and also getting older 😁
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Little gets me more excited than discovering a little paper from the 30s or 50s in Mind or the Proceedings called 'Appearing' or 'Seeing' or 'Perception and thought'. Afraid I'm becoming a very British philosopher...and also getting older 😁
Reposted by Giulia Martina
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Something very funny just happened: I was trying to remember the relationship between two characters in 'Infinite Jest' and googled their names. No results.
Removed due to data protection law?!? 'The right to be forgotten'. Some work for philosophers here! DFW would have loved.
#philosophy
Removed due to data protection law?!? 'The right to be forgotten'. Some work for philosophers here! DFW would have loved.
#philosophy
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Something very funny just happened: I was trying to remember the relationship between two characters in 'Infinite Jest' and googled their names. No results.
Removed due to data protection law?!? 'The right to be forgotten'. Some work for philosophers here! DFW would have loved.
#philosophy
Removed due to data protection law?!? 'The right to be forgotten'. Some work for philosophers here! DFW would have loved.
#philosophy
What can I do with this thing between now and ttt (table tennis time)? Let's see.
15,794. One section to go.
16,335.
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
What can I do with this thing between now and ttt (table tennis time)? Let's see.
Ouch, miss Japan so much.
Shinto priests in the court of the Meiji temple. Tokyo 1951. Photography by Werner Bischof
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Ouch, miss Japan so much.
15,794. One section to go.
16,335.
16,870. Slow also due to cold but happy with the changes (more than with the cuts).
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
15,794. One section to go.
16,335.
16,870. Slow also due to cold but happy with the changes (more than with the cuts).
So my paper needs cutting down (surprise). Will be posting updates for accountability. Starting at 17,356 words.
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
16,335.
Somewhat disappointed to discover that this does not involve doing a philosophy interview whilst playing ping pong. Could be a new professional (and fitness) goal.
🌍 Are possible worlds just as real as our own? And what role does imagination play in logic and metaphysics?
In this episode 🏓, I talk with Franz Berto, Professor at the University of St. Andrews, about modal realism, imagination, and what we can learn from reading Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
In this episode 🏓, I talk with Franz Berto, Professor at the University of St. Andrews, about modal realism, imagination, and what we can learn from reading Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
Franz Berto on modal realism, imagination and reading the Tractatus I EP 3
YouTube video by Ping Pong Philosophy
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October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Somewhat disappointed to discover that this does not involve doing a philosophy interview whilst playing ping pong. Could be a new professional (and fitness) goal.
16,870. Slow also due to cold but happy with the changes (more than with the cuts).
So my paper needs cutting down (surprise). Will be posting updates for accountability. Starting at 17,356 words.
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
16,870. Slow also due to cold but happy with the changes (more than with the cuts).
So my paper needs cutting down (surprise). Will be posting updates for accountability. Starting at 17,356 words.
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
So my paper needs cutting down (surprise). Will be posting updates for accountability. Starting at 17,356 words.
Turns out I have no idea how to cook for one person. And I don't have a microwave to warm up leftovers. Then tonight I made a ramen with all kinds of leftover bits and now I have leftover leftover ramen. Tough life.
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Turns out I have no idea how to cook for one person. And I don't have a microwave to warm up leftovers. Then tonight I made a ramen with all kinds of leftover bits and now I have leftover leftover ramen. Tough life.
There is a youtube recording of Dretske's lecture on seeing objects!!! Here's his brick wall example: youtu.be/yLr-HsxT4zI?...
What We See with Fred Dretske
YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
There is a youtube recording of Dretske's lecture on seeing objects!!! Here's his brick wall example: youtu.be/yLr-HsxT4zI?...
Turns out that back in 2010 folks used to have proper philosophical discussions on Philpapers (e.g. on Dretske on seeing)! What have we lost... philpapers.org/bbs/thread.p...
philpapers.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Turns out that back in 2010 folks used to have proper philosophical discussions on Philpapers (e.g. on Dretske on seeing)! What have we lost... philpapers.org/bbs/thread.p...
Turns out that on my to-do list today for the purposes of dreaded paper revisions is read Dretske. Rarely does revising get better than that!
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Turns out that on my to-do list today for the purposes of dreaded paper revisions is read Dretske. Rarely does revising get better than that!
Reposted by Giulia Martina
Coming up at Warwick University: Workshop on temporal experience, 14th Nov 2025
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Coming up at Warwick University: Workshop on temporal experience, 14th Nov 2025