James Openshaw
@openshaw.bsky.social
Philosopher with interests in memory, reference, and mind. Asst prof at NTU Singapore. www.jamesopenshaw.com
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I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.
PLM Workshop Traces and Engrams: Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives
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November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.
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Final Call: We are hiring for multiple positions (open rank and open area).
Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025.
See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025.
See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Full Professor of Philosophy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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September 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Final Call: We are hiring for multiple positions (open rank and open area).
Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025.
See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025.
See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
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Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26
Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026
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September 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26
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Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...
Grief Utterances
Organised by Philosophy, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...
Happy to share that my recent paper on confabulation is now published as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection in the Asian JP:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Illusions of memory: what referential confabulation can tell us about remembering - Asian Journal of Philosophy
Recent philosophy of memory tends to treat confabulation as a distinctive type of representational error, marked by reference failure, often via direct analogy with the traditional conception of senso...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy to share that my recent paper on confabulation is now published as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection in the Asian JP:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU!
Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!
Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!
July 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU!
Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!
Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338
Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!
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The deadline for applications to present at PhOMO's prospective session at the 2026 APA Central Division meeting (Chicago, Feb 18–21) is in 2 weeks. Please spread the word!
More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls
More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls
PhOMO - Calls
The Philosophy of Memory Organization
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July 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The deadline for applications to present at PhOMO's prospective session at the 2026 APA Central Division meeting (Chicago, Feb 18–21) is in 2 weeks. Please spread the word!
More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls
More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls
New paper - 'Illusions of memory' - forthcoming in the Asian Journal of Philosophy, as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection. Penultimate draft up here:
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July 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New paper - 'Illusions of memory' - forthcoming in the Asian Journal of Philosophy, as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection. Penultimate draft up here:
philpapers.org/rec/OPEIOM
philpapers.org/rec/OPEIOM
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We are looking for early career researchers interested in organising PhOMO's next (4th) online conference, expected to take place in 2027. Please spread the word! To apply, see our website: www.phomo.org/calls
PhOMO - Calls
The Philosophy of Memory Organization
www.phomo.org
June 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We are looking for early career researchers interested in organising PhOMO's next (4th) online conference, expected to take place in 2027. Please spread the word! To apply, see our website: www.phomo.org/calls
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IPM 4.5 starting now!
🚨Coming up soon on May 22–23: the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)! Amazing lineup of speakers, with each early-career talk followed by commentary.
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
May 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
IPM 4.5 starting now!
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PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
May 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Reference and Remembering, a topical collection in Synthese, is now fully published. Here's our editorial introduction to the 15 contributions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Reference and remembering: editorial introduction - Synthese
This topical collection brings together papers that address memory and aboutness. Focal points of the contributions concern relationships between episodic memory, reference (or singular thought), the ...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Reference and Remembering, a topical collection in Synthese, is now fully published. Here's our editorial introduction to the 15 contributions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The final contribution to the Reference and Remembering collection is now published! A great paper by @kristinaliefke.bsky.social and Markus Werning titled 'Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences': link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences: a non-disjunctivist account including vicarious, oneiric and fictional remembering - Synthese
The paper argues for a non-disjunctivist account of reference in episodic memory. Our account provides a uniform theory of reference for episodic memories that root in veridical and non-veridical expe...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The final contribution to the Reference and Remembering collection is now published! A great paper by @kristinaliefke.bsky.social and Markus Werning titled 'Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences': link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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PhOMO's first ever group session at an APA event is next Friday (April 18, 7–9pm) at the Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco. If you'll be around we warmly encourage you to come along! We have a very exciting line-up: www.phomo.org/events/2025-...
PhOMO - 2025 Pacific APA
Philosophy of Memory Organization
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April 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
PhOMO's first ever group session at an APA event is next Friday (April 18, 7–9pm) at the Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco. If you'll be around we warmly encourage you to come along! We have a very exciting line-up: www.phomo.org/events/2025-...
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Excited to share that my paper 'Remembering as the Same' is now published open access.
Part of a fabulous collection co-edited by @openshaw.bsky.social, Kourken Michaelian, and Denis Perrin.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Part of a fabulous collection co-edited by @openshaw.bsky.social, Kourken Michaelian, and Denis Perrin.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Remembering as the same - Synthese
One may not only represent the same objects of one’s past, but also represent them as the same objects across time. I call this phenomenon “Remembering as the Same” (RaS). In this article, I aim to br...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Excited to share that my paper 'Remembering as the Same' is now published open access.
Part of a fabulous collection co-edited by @openshaw.bsky.social, Kourken Michaelian, and Denis Perrin.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Part of a fabulous collection co-edited by @openshaw.bsky.social, Kourken Michaelian, and Denis Perrin.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Upcoming workshop at NTU this week!
March 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Upcoming workshop at NTU this week!
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Great post from on the past, present, and future of the Philosophy of Memory Organization, authored by James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
The Philosophy of Memory Organization: An update
James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University)
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February 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Great post from on the past, present, and future of the Philosophy of Memory Organization, authored by James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
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'Engrams and causal specificity' has now been published in Philosophical Psychology
Engrams and causal specificity
The identification of memory engrams remains a methodological obstacle in neuroscience if they are to play the explanatory role ascribed to them by engram theory. I tackle the problem of specificit...
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March 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
'Engrams and causal specificity' has now been published in Philosophical Psychology
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My paper 'Interpreting continuism as a mechanistic thesis' has been accepted for publication in Synthese. In it, I aim to precisify the continuist hypothesis, where memory and imagination are taken to belong to the same natural kind. + (1/5)
Preprint: josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html
Preprint: josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html
Research
José Carlos Camillo
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March 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My paper 'Interpreting continuism as a mechanistic thesis' has been accepted for publication in Synthese. In it, I aim to precisify the continuist hypothesis, where memory and imagination are taken to belong to the same natural kind. + (1/5)
Preprint: josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html
Preprint: josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html
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A new article has been published on the #PhiMiSci website: "Is De Brigard a simulationist?" by Kourken Michaelian, Juan F. Álvarez, and James Openshaw. The authors investigate whether De Brigard really defends a position that dissolves the conflict between simulationism and causalism about memory.
Is De Brigard a simulationist?
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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February 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A new article has been published on the #PhiMiSci website: "Is De Brigard a simulationist?" by Kourken Michaelian, Juan F. Álvarez, and James Openshaw. The authors investigate whether De Brigard really defends a position that dissolves the conflict between simulationism and causalism about memory.
An exciting talk this Friday at NTU's philosophy colloquium. All welcome. Looking forward to @nikolaandonovski.bsky.social 's visit very much!
February 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
An exciting talk this Friday at NTU's philosophy colloquium. All welcome. Looking forward to @nikolaandonovski.bsky.social 's visit very much!
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I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the workshop Accuracy in Perception and Memory.
It will be held online from 25-27/03/2025. More information, including registration, can be found here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
It will be held online from 25-27/03/2025. More information, including registration, can be found here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
January 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the workshop Accuracy in Perception and Memory.
It will be held online from 25-27/03/2025. More information, including registration, can be found here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
It will be held online from 25-27/03/2025. More information, including registration, can be found here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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The #IPM4.5 call for papers is open! Taking place on 22–23 May, this year's conference introduces a new format. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March. Submit here:
Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM4.5)
This is the submission form for Philosophy of Memory Early Career Conference (IPM 4.5).
Abstracts must be anonymized and no longer than 500 words.
Contact: IPM4.5 organizing committee (issuesinphilom...
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December 11, 2024 at 8:51 AM
The #IPM4.5 call for papers is open! Taking place on 22–23 May, this year's conference introduces a new format. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March. Submit here: