Johannes Mahr
@jomahr.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist and philosopher at York University, Canada.
Josh Myers and I argue that episodic construction is compositional over at the Junkyard Blog. Check it out here: junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...
Episodic Construction: Compositional or Associative? — The Junkyard
A post by Joshua Myers and Johannes Mahr. Imagination and episodic memory are intimately linked. Imagination draws on previous experience—when picturing yourself on a beach in Portugal sipping mango ...
junkyardofthemind.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Josh Myers and I argue that episodic construction is compositional over at the Junkyard Blog. Check it out here: junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...
Reposted by Johannes Mahr
The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
Check out the interview I did on the Many Minds Podcast - we chat about all things memory: manyminds.libsyn.com/what-is-memo...
Many Minds: What is memory for?
Everyone loves a good evolutionary puzzle. Why do we have appendices? Why do we dream? Why do we blush? At first glance, memory would not seem to be in this category. It's clearly useful to remember s...
manyminds.libsyn.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Check out the interview I did on the Many Minds Podcast - we chat about all things memory: manyminds.libsyn.com/what-is-memo...
New Preprint! 🤩 We investigated whether people across 10 languages and 7 countries share basic intuitions underlying the "Causal Theory" of remembering. While there is some variation, it seems that these intuitions are widely shared across languages and cultures. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
March 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New Preprint! 🤩 We investigated whether people across 10 languages and 7 countries share basic intuitions underlying the "Causal Theory" of remembering. While there is some variation, it seems that these intuitions are widely shared across languages and cultures. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/os...
Reposted by Johannes Mahr
We wrote a paper on how we think language interacts with Theory of Mind, why the connection is tricky to find experimentally, and what this means for pragmatics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
December 18, 2024 at 3:45 PM
We wrote a paper on how we think language interacts with Theory of Mind, why the connection is tricky to find experimentally, and what this means for pragmatics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Johannes Mahr
Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
December 4, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
Reposted by Johannes Mahr
New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now
xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...
xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...
December 2, 2024 at 2:05 PM
New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now
xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...
xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...
This is excellent!
aeon.co/essays/ident...
aeon.co/essays/ident...
Identity is painfully contingent for the culturally bereaved | Aeon Essays
As a child, I was torn from a culture that I never knew. It is a loss that defines me, even as I struggle to define the loss
aeon.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:45 PM
This is excellent!
aeon.co/essays/ident...
aeon.co/essays/ident...
Reposted by Johannes Mahr
Philosophers and psychologists- don't forget to submit to the OG conference! The SSPP has long fostered deep conversations between philosophers and psychologists-and has long been a place for animal cognition researchers and philosophers to exchange ideas. Deadline for Phil Nov 22, for Psych Dec 1
The Southern Society
www.southernsociety.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Philosophers and psychologists- don't forget to submit to the OG conference! The SSPP has long fostered deep conversations between philosophers and psychologists-and has long been a place for animal cognition researchers and philosophers to exchange ideas. Deadline for Phil Nov 22, for Psych Dec 1
🚨I’m looking for a postdoc! 🚨 (1 year with possibility for a second), starting September/October. Reach out if you’re a psychologically minded philosopher or a philosophically minded psychologist interested in memory, imagination, social relationships, or human communication!
July 15, 2024 at 12:08 PM
🚨I’m looking for a postdoc! 🚨 (1 year with possibility for a second), starting September/October. Reach out if you’re a psychologically minded philosopher or a philosophically minded psychologist interested in memory, imagination, social relationships, or human communication!