Michelle Liu
@michelleybliu.bsky.social
Philosopher at Monash University, interested in mind, language and art
My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University
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September 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770
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Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
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Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
ASPP 2025 Melbourne
Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference
Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025
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September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
I'm in London till the end of this year and will be hosting this workshop with Robyn Carston in December. Come and say hi!
Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives - PhilEvents share.google/dYgWGjAebsH9...
Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives - PhilEvents share.google/dYgWGjAebsH9...
Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives
The concept expressed by a word on a specific occasion often diverges from the concept encoded by the word. In recent years, this divergence has been the centra...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I'm in London till the end of this year and will be hosting this workshop with Robyn Carston in December. Come and say hi!
Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives - PhilEvents share.google/dYgWGjAebsH9...
Word Meaning and Concept Expressed: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives - PhilEvents share.google/dYgWGjAebsH9...
From July till December this year, I will be taking up a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to work on word meaning and philosophical applications. @britishacademy.bsky.social I'm looking forward to living in London and reconnecting with colleagues in the UK and Europe!
June 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
From July till December this year, I will be taking up a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to work on word meaning and philosophical applications. @britishacademy.bsky.social I'm looking forward to living in London and reconnecting with colleagues in the UK and Europe!
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Philosophy Smash with Henry is on Daily Nous!
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@saperep4c.bsky.social @ukri.org
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@saperep4c.bsky.social @ukri.org
New Philosophy Outreach Program: Philosophy Smash - Daily Nous
A philosopher at the University of Birmingham, Henry Taylor, has a new philosophy outreach program. Philosophy Smash with Henry! aims to introduce children to philosophical questions. In the following...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Philosophy Smash with Henry is on Daily Nous!
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@saperep4c.bsky.social @ukri.org
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@saperep4c.bsky.social @ukri.org
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"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
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My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
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May 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
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A wonderful piece in the naturalistic section of philosophy compass, which I edit.
My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
Polysemy and Philosophy
Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polys....
dx.doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A wonderful piece in the naturalistic section of philosophy compass, which I edit.
Reposted by Michelle Liu
Listen to @michelleybliu.bsky.social's interview before, after, or while you read her new article on polysemy and philosophy.
May 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Listen to @michelleybliu.bsky.social's interview before, after, or while you read her new article on polysemy and philosophy.
My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
Polysemy and Philosophy
Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polys....
dx.doi.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
Reposted by Michelle Liu
This month, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @michelleybliu.bsky.social. They discuss representing music in visual forms, whether arguments have aesthetic properties, and the role of mental imagery in poetry and philosophy. Follow the show and listen on your favourite podcast platform!
Season 2, Episode 2: Sublime Art, Nice Philosophy with Michelle Liu – Concept : Art
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March 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This month, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with @michelleybliu.bsky.social. They discuss representing music in visual forms, whether arguments have aesthetic properties, and the role of mental imagery in poetry and philosophy. Follow the show and listen on your favourite podcast platform!
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Frame and relevance problems from the perspective of predictive processing - new paper led by @monash-m3cs.bsky.social's Tom Darling #philsky
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Solving the relevance problem with predictive processing
The frame or relevance problem is a classic problem in cognitive science and philosophy. We attempt to resolve this problem by appealing to predictive processing, a growing theory of cognition. As ...
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February 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Frame and relevance problems from the perspective of predictive processing - new paper led by @monash-m3cs.bsky.social's Tom Darling #philsky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Excellent paper on dehumanization by my wonderful colleague Suzy Killmister.
Published today in Philosophers' Imprint
Suzy Killmister, "A Metaphysics of Dehumanization"
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#philsky
Suzy Killmister, "A Metaphysics of Dehumanization"
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#philsky
A Metaphysics of Dehumanization
Most contemporary accounts of dehumanization construe it either as a psychological phenomenon of seeing the other as non-human, or as as an interpersonal phenomenon of failing to treat the other as th...
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December 28, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Excellent paper on dehumanization by my wonderful colleague Suzy Killmister.
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The Western media will never be forgiven for their role in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.
New post 👇
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New post 👇
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The Western media: drenched in Palestinian blood
You are more likely to read the truth about Israel's crimes in an Israeli newspaper than you are in a Western media outlet.
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December 24, 2024 at 1:22 PM
The Western media will never be forgiven for their role in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-wester...
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-wester...
Excellent paper on chatbots and assertion by my colleagues Iwan Williams and Tim Bayne
My paper with Tim Bayne "Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion" is now up at Inquiry.
Our question: can large language model powered chatbots make assertions (can they state, claim or affirm things)?
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Our question: can large language model powered chatbots make assertions (can they state, claim or affirm things)?
[1/5]
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion
This paper addresses the question of whether large language model-powered chatbots are capable of assertion. According to what we call the Thesis of Chatbot Assertion (TCA), chatbots are the kinds ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Excellent paper on chatbots and assertion by my colleagues Iwan Williams and Tim Bayne
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An excellent crammer on Dan Dennett's philosophy, written by Tim Bayne in a lucid, lively style to rival Dennett's own.
"What needs to go is not so much folk psychology... but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it."
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"What needs to go is not so much folk psychology... but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it."
aeon.co/essays/as-re...
‘As real as it ever gets’: Dennett’s conception of the mind | Aeon Essays
Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought
aeon.co
December 16, 2024 at 10:05 AM
An excellent crammer on Dan Dennett's philosophy, written by Tim Bayne in a lucid, lively style to rival Dennett's own.
"What needs to go is not so much folk psychology... but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it."
aeon.co/essays/as-re...
"What needs to go is not so much folk psychology... but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it."
aeon.co/essays/as-re...
Reposted by Michelle Liu
BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:
BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:12 AM
BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:
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My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Knowing What It Is Like
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like
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December 2, 2024 at 11:08 AM
My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Heading to Shanghai this week for my first philosophy conference in China. Looking forward to the Shanghai-Grenoble Philosophy of Memory Workshop 2 phil-mem.org/events/2024-...
Centre for Philosophy of Memory
Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Centre de philosophie de la mémoire
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December 1, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Heading to Shanghai this week for my first philosophy conference in China. Looking forward to the Shanghai-Grenoble Philosophy of Memory Workshop 2 phil-mem.org/events/2024-...
Monash philosophy departmental workshop next week (12th & 13th), featuring many of my wonderful colleagues philevents.org/event/show/1.... If you are in Melbourne, come along.
Monash Philosophy Departmental Workshop
This is an in-person event only
Location: S109 Menzies Building, Clayton
Day 1, November 12th
10:30-11:30 Jenny Windt: A botanical metaphor for our wandering minds
11:30-12:30 Gene Flenady...
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November 7, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Monash philosophy departmental workshop next week (12th & 13th), featuring many of my wonderful colleagues philevents.org/event/show/1.... If you are in Melbourne, come along.