Giving a talk in the ever so beautiful Lugano at 4.30 today on the translucent mind. It's also on zoom: www.usi.ch/en/feeds/33307

I'm still in shock that I won the FWO excellentieprijs, which they insist on calling the 'Flemish Nobelprize'. It's awarded every 5 years and I am apparently the youngest person ever to win it (at the tender age of 50). I am told that the award will be presented by the King of Belgium himself...

On my way to Toronto for the CPA. Toronto friends, come say hi!

In my humble opinion, The Phoenician Scheme is better than any of his films since Grand Budapest Hotel

Book symposium on my Mental Imagery book in Mind & Language with precis, comments byAmy Kind, Neil Van Leeuwen and Christian Scholz and my response. Much of it open access!
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13th Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture
Hanna Pickard
27 March, 4pm
Lange Sint-Annestraat 7, Antwerp

My 'Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction' in Japanese. Nice cover!

This one is wild...

Got 580,000 Euros from the FWO for what I hope to be my next grand project on the Translucent Mind!

LAST CALL: Thirteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: Representational format
Length: 3000 words. Single spaced!
Deadline: December 15, 2024.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
More info: bencenanay.com

My 2016 book, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is now also freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website:
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My 2013 book, Between Perception and Action is now freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website:
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Thirteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: Representational format
Length: 3000 words. Single spaced!
Deadline: December 15, 2024.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
More info: bencenanay.com

My book Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience (OUP, 2023) is now officially open access. You can download the PDF for free here:
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Two books arrived on the same day:
1. The Geography of Taste (co-authored with Dom Lopes, Samantha Matherne and Mohan Matthen)
2. Perception: The Basics
Pretty covers as well...

This is finally out. Short, cheap, everything you've ever wanted in a book...
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LAST CALL:
CFP: Final conference of the ERC-funded Mental Imagery Project. All expenses covered + 1000 Euro honorarium May 30-31, 2024, Antwerp More info: bencenanay.com/paw.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS: Final conference of the ERC-funded Mental Imagery Project.
All expenses covered + 1000 Euro honorarium
May 30-31, 2024, Antwerp
More info: bencenanay.com/paw.htm