Regina Fabry
@reginafabry.bsky.social
Philosopher of mind and cognition working at Macquarie University. She/her.
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Für @zeitonline.bsky.social habe ich einen Essay geschrieben über das, was wir gerade Backlash nennen und frage mich, ob es diesen wirklich gibt oder ob wir nicht seit langem etwas vor allem unter Aspekten der Gerechtigkeit diskutieren, obwohl es in Wirklichkeit essenziell für unsere Demokratie ist.
Gesellschaftlicher Backlash: Wovor wir Frauen wirklich Angst haben sollten
Was viele seit Beginn der Kanzlerschaft von Friedrich Merz als Backlash bezeichnen, ist gar keiner: Wir sind beim Feminismus nur nicht weit genug vorangekommen.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Für @zeitonline.bsky.social habe ich einen Essay geschrieben über das, was wir gerade Backlash nennen und frage mich, ob es diesen wirklich gibt oder ob wir nicht seit langem etwas vor allem unter Aspekten der Gerechtigkeit diskutieren, obwohl es in Wirklichkeit essenziell für unsere Demokratie ist.
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You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...
the relationscape
Macquarie University, Sydney – 11th and 12th of December 2025
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October 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...
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“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone”
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When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow
Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds
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October 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone”
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Reminder that we are seeking submissions to a rad special issue! Send us your coolest papers that apply a feminist lens to the mind and to cognitive science! Deadline is January 15. #philsky hypatiaphilosophy.org/uncategorize...
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reminder that we are seeking submissions to a rad special issue! Send us your coolest papers that apply a feminist lens to the mind and to cognitive science! Deadline is January 15. #philsky hypatiaphilosophy.org/uncategorize...
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There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling.
It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.
If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.
It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.
If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling.
It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.
If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.
It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.
If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.
How do chatbots based on Large Language Models impact our self-narrative practices? We will explore this question in a workshop titled "Self-Narration in the Age of Conversational Chatbots." The workshop will take place at Macquarie University on 21 November 2025.
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Human-Chatbot Self-Narration
21 November 2025
Michael Kirby Building
330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally's Walk (in-person only)
Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University
Organiser: Dr Regina Fabry
Contact: regina.fabry@mq.edu.au
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September 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
How do chatbots based on Large Language Models impact our self-narrative practices? We will explore this question in a workshop titled "Self-Narration in the Age of Conversational Chatbots." The workshop will take place at Macquarie University on 21 November 2025.
sites.google.com/view/human-c...
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Highly recommended!
My book "Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic" is now available as a paperback -- and for a much cheaper price!
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Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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September 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Highly recommended!
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Academia still hates women. But we resist! Solidarity with all women in academia who face everyday sexism, erasure, harassment etc. and with all who were pushed out 💔❤️
Some of the brightest lights I’ve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the “lucky” ones—in that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.
August 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Academia still hates women. But we resist! Solidarity with all women in academia who face everyday sexism, erasure, harassment etc. and with all who were pushed out 💔❤️
Ich bin einer der vielen lebenden Beweise dafür, dass man am Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer Abitur machen und an der Uni Mainz studieren, gar promovieren kann, ohne Queer-Feindlichkeit das Wort zu reden und rechte Hetze mit linkem Qualitätsjournalismus gleichzusetzen. 1/2
Was lehren das Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer und die @unimainz.bsky.social eigentlich, wenn da Leute herauskommen, die die @taz.de nicht von NIUS unterscheiden können?
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Ich bin einer der vielen lebenden Beweise dafür, dass man am Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer Abitur machen und an der Uni Mainz studieren, gar promovieren kann, ohne Queer-Feindlichkeit das Wort zu reden und rechte Hetze mit linkem Qualitätsjournalismus gleichzusetzen. 1/2
I am very happy so share that my most recent article on self-narration titled "Counter Self-Narration: A Creative-Imaginative Practice of Resistance" just got published in Topoi (Open Access). doi.org/10.1007/s112... #philsky 1/3
Counter Self-Narration: A Creative-Imaginative Practice of Resistance - Topoi
Topoi - Self-narration, many philosophers assume, is an important practice for self-understanding and meaning-making. However, self-narration does not occur in an ideologically neutral space, but...
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August 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I am very happy so share that my most recent article on self-narration titled "Counter Self-Narration: A Creative-Imaginative Practice of Resistance" just got published in Topoi (Open Access). doi.org/10.1007/s112... #philsky 1/3
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
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August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
Highly recommended: the most recent article by my brilliant friend, collaborator, and co-editor @marilynstendera.bsky.social about the impact of griefbots on the phenomenal experience of time in grief.
I'm pleased to share my latest paper, which has just been published (Open Access) in Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences. It explores how 'griefbots' - AI chatbots trained to impersonate the dead - might impact the temporal phenomenology of grief.
Marking time: griefbots, world-time, and the phenomenology of bereavement - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Bereavement has long been recognised as an experience of profound temporal disruption, unravelling and even severing the connections, meanings, and strategies we habitually use in navigating time. The...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Highly recommended: the most recent article by my brilliant friend, collaborator, and co-editor @marilynstendera.bsky.social about the impact of griefbots on the phenomenal experience of time in grief.
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✨ PhD position available ✨
@loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇
Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊
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@loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇
Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊
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Vacancy — PhD Position in Philosophy
Are you keen to contribute to a better understanding of the social, political and epistemic impact of disruptive technologies such as the Internet and AI? Join our interdisciplinary research project f...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
✨ PhD position available ✨
@loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇
Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
@loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇
Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Heewon Seo's contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration" has just been published (Open Access). Highly recommended! #philsky
July 31, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Heewon Seo's contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration" has just been published (Open Access). Highly recommended! #philsky
The first contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration," which I edit with the always brilliant Emily Joy Hughes, has just been published. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky 1/2
Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration. This special issue aims to ...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The first contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration," which I edit with the always brilliant Emily Joy Hughes, has just been published. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky 1/2
Now out Open Access: My new article on human-deathbot interactions! doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/3
The disruption of grief in the technological niche: The case of deathbots - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Recently, philosophical research on grief and the impact of technological resources on its structure and quality has gained momentum. Deathbots, chatbots based on generative Large Language Models that...
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June 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Now out Open Access: My new article on human-deathbot interactions! doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/3
When I started to work on the phenomenology and epistemology of grief a few years ago, I couldn't help but notice that a lot of philosophers of grief frequently cite grief memoirs. 1/2
May 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
When I started to work on the phenomenology and epistemology of grief a few years ago, I couldn't help but notice that a lot of philosophers of grief frequently cite grief memoirs. 1/2
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If you could hold on to just a single memory, just one episode from your personal past, what would it be? Today at the Memory Palace, Chris McCarroll investigates this exciting question about personal memory. A highly recommended reading!
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A Single Memory
Christopher Jude McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
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April 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you could hold on to just a single memory, just one episode from your personal past, what would it be? Today at the Memory Palace, Chris McCarroll investigates this exciting question about personal memory. A highly recommended reading!
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Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
PhD Studentships 2025
We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.
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April 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
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Irrsinnige Summen von öffentlichen Mitteln werden investiert, damit Wissenschaftler_innen Expertise auf- & ausbauen können. Und was macht D, wenn diese Leute am Höhepunkt ihrer Expertise angelangt sind? Es wirft sie raus & fängt mit neuen Leuten wieder bei Null an. Teurer ‚Spaß‘! #IchBinHanna
March 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Irrsinnige Summen von öffentlichen Mitteln werden investiert, damit Wissenschaftler_innen Expertise auf- & ausbauen können. Und was macht D, wenn diese Leute am Höhepunkt ihrer Expertise angelangt sind? Es wirft sie raus & fängt mit neuen Leuten wieder bei Null an. Teurer ‚Spaß‘! #IchBinHanna
I am happy to share that my work on distributed self-narration is amongst the 10 most-cited articles published in Mind & Language in 2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #TopCitedArticle #philsky
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self‐narratives
Richard Heersmink argues that self-narratives are distributed across embodied organisms and their environment, given that their building blocks, autobiographical memories, are distributed. This argum...
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March 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I am happy to share that my work on distributed self-narration is amongst the 10 most-cited articles published in Mind & Language in 2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #TopCitedArticle #philsky
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In this week's post, Regina Fabry discusses her paper, Narrative Gaslighting, exploring some of the potentially harmful consequences of self-narration, and how narrative gaslighting threatens to undermines a narraters epistemic and moral competence #philsky
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March 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In this week's post, Regina Fabry discusses her paper, Narrative Gaslighting, exploring some of the potentially harmful consequences of self-narration, and how narrative gaslighting threatens to undermines a narraters epistemic and moral competence #philsky
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The first contribution to the Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on “Grief in the Digital Age,” co-edited with the always brilliant @marilynstendera.bsky.social, is now published online! #philsky 1/2 link.springer.com/collections/...
Grief in the Digital Age
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences entitled Grief in the Digital Age.
The special ...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The first contribution to the Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on “Grief in the Digital Age,” co-edited with the always brilliant @marilynstendera.bsky.social, is now published online! #philsky 1/2 link.springer.com/collections/...
You are cordially invited to register for an in-person workshop titled “Narratives and Beyond: Negotiating Experiences through Imaginative Practices,” which takes place at Macquarie University, Sydney on 22 and 23 April 2025. #philsky sites.google.com/view/narrati... 1/4
Narrative and Beyond
Throughout cultural history, human agents have engaged in imaginative practices of meaning-making to negotiate their experiences of loss, disruption, and alienation. From storytelling to painting, fro...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
You are cordially invited to register for an in-person workshop titled “Narratives and Beyond: Negotiating Experiences through Imaginative Practices,” which takes place at Macquarie University, Sydney on 22 and 23 April 2025. #philsky sites.google.com/view/narrati... 1/4
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When I protect and help other people, I am told to stop “mothering” (=sexism). If a male colleague is doing the same it is called “leadership”.
i struggle with the discussion on masculinity, cause i find most (positive) definitions of masculinity a little insulting to women, what do you mean protecting and helping people is a male trait?
But it also does not really feel like fully my business as a woman at the same time
But it also does not really feel like fully my business as a woman at the same time
March 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
When I protect and help other people, I am told to stop “mothering” (=sexism). If a male colleague is doing the same it is called “leadership”.