Felipe De Brigard
@felipedebrigard.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Director of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab - www.imclab.org. Pun aficionado. (he/him/el) 🇨🇴
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Memory, Emotion, and Forgiveness: Exploring the Connections
People wrong each other with remarkable frequency. Yet, they often manage to repair their relationships by forgiving each other. A prominent view in the moral ...
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If your work explores the connections between memory, emotion and forgiveness, and if it does so from a philosophical and/or psychological perspective, please consider submitting a manuscript to this special issue: link.springer.com/collections/... #philosophy #psychology #emotion #forgiveness
Amazing work!!!
Finally out! If you are interested in implementing closed loop experiments but need the flexibility to roll your own real-time algorithms, we can save you some serious time.
Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com introduces improv, a flexible software platform that integrates models with experiments in real-time. Traditional experiments collect all data first, then analyze it later. With improv, models analyze data as it streams in and actively guide what to do next.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Amazing work!!!
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Philosophers, why does everything you do turn into a “plague of distinctions” descending on innocent people just trying to live their lives??
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is giving me joy this morning. (From “Explaining Emotions”) #philsky
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is giving me joy this morning. (From “Explaining Emotions”) #philsky
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Philosophers, why does everything you do turn into a “plague of distinctions” descending on innocent people just trying to live their lives??
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is giving me joy this morning. (From “Explaining Emotions”) #philsky
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is giving me joy this morning. (From “Explaining Emotions”) #philsky
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Would you plug into machine that simulates perfect life? NO! When told they’re already plugged in, half stay-when reality looks worse, almost everyone does. We don’t value reality. Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. Link in bio #philosophy #simulation #reality
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Would you plug into machine that simulates perfect life? NO! When told they’re already plugged in, half stay-when reality looks worse, almost everyone does. We don’t value reality. Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. Link in bio #philosophy #simulation #reality
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
Very excited to host Nathan Spreng at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá!
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Very excited to host Nathan Spreng at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá!
I wrote a short commentary on Anil Seth's wonderful forthcoming paper in BBS. It is largely inspired by the work of Andy Clark, although some ideas I owe to Ned Block and Dan Dennett (probably not the same ideas!). I highly recommend Anil's paper to anyone interested in consciousness [1/2]
October 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I wrote a short commentary on Anil Seth's wonderful forthcoming paper in BBS. It is largely inspired by the work of Andy Clark, although some ideas I owe to Ned Block and Dan Dennett (probably not the same ideas!). I highly recommend Anil's paper to anyone interested in consciousness [1/2]
RIP Jane Goodall 😞
October 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
RIP Jane Goodall 😞
I miss Obama :-(
September 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I miss Obama :-(
132,877. That’s the latest official number of people who forcibly disappeared in Colombia during the conflict. 132,877.
September 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
132,877. That’s the latest official number of people who forcibly disappeared in Colombia during the conflict. 132,877.
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“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump
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Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
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Thank you, Senator Warren.
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Thank you, Senator Warren.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
💯 😢
September 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
💯 😢
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Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
The art of the no deal
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The art of the no deal
This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
People often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking, or mentally simulating how the experienced past might have been different from how it was. A commonly held view is that mentally simulating alt...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Columbia. Harvard. UPenn. George Mason. UVA. UCLA.
One by one, universities are being attacked—financially, politically, ideologically.
Faculty & staff: don’t wait for it to hit your campus. Join the national movement defending higher ed.
standtogetherhighered.org (sign up on homepage)
One by one, universities are being attacked—financially, politically, ideologically.
Faculty & staff: don’t wait for it to hit your campus. Join the national movement defending higher ed.
standtogetherhighered.org (sign up on homepage)
August 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Columbia. Harvard. UPenn. George Mason. UVA. UCLA.
One by one, universities are being attacked—financially, politically, ideologically.
Faculty & staff: don’t wait for it to hit your campus. Join the national movement defending higher ed.
standtogetherhighered.org (sign up on homepage)
One by one, universities are being attacked—financially, politically, ideologically.
Faculty & staff: don’t wait for it to hit your campus. Join the national movement defending higher ed.
standtogetherhighered.org (sign up on homepage)
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This is unfortunate:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.
July 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is unfortunate:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.
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lovely thread describing our new paper on why temporal order affects people's causal judgments!
beyond finding the research cool, I also hope you'll appreciate our pretty plots (courtesy of ggdist / @mjskay.com)
beyond finding the research cool, I also hope you'll appreciate our pretty plots (courtesy of ggdist / @mjskay.com)
New short paper with @kevingoneill.github.io and Paul Henne: We re-analyse data from a recent study on causal judgment, and find that a counterfactual model explains why temporal order influences people's intuitions.
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A counterfactual explanation for recency effects in double prevention scenarios: Commentary on Thanawala and Erb (2024)
Many cognitive scientists and philosophers take cases of double prevention to be one of the primary motivations for accepting causal pluralism, the vi…
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July 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
lovely thread describing our new paper on why temporal order affects people's causal judgments!
beyond finding the research cool, I also hope you'll appreciate our pretty plots (courtesy of ggdist / @mjskay.com)
beyond finding the research cool, I also hope you'll appreciate our pretty plots (courtesy of ggdist / @mjskay.com)
This looks great!! Can’t wait to read it!
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
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July 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This looks great!! Can’t wait to read it!
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I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.
July 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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"If you are a woman, acquire your contraception and birth control needs before you set foot in the United States. It is effectively impossible and/or prohibitively expensive in many regions to access reproductive health care or even basic contraception."
Tips for Foreign Correspondents in an American Conflict Zone
1. The United States is considered an unstable region due to frequent authoritarian crackdowns, rising Christian fundamentalism, and active attacks...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"If you are a woman, acquire your contraception and birth control needs before you set foot in the United States. It is effectively impossible and/or prohibitively expensive in many regions to access reproductive health care or even basic contraception."