Sabrina Coninx
@sconinxphil.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Philosophy of Mind and Science, working on Pain, Suffering, Chronic Illnesses, Affective Scaffolding, Niche Construction, Disruptive Technologies
What an amazing line-up for everyone interested in philosophy of pain!
COMPAIN Lectures: The Complexity of Pain and Its Normative Implications
The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join the COMPAIN Lecture Series featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join the COMPAIN Lecture Series featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
What an amazing line-up for everyone interested in philosophy of pain!
Reposted by Sabrina Coninx
Join us this Thursday for an exciting talk by @sconinxphil.bsky.social!
Event info: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
To join via Zoom, please register here: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/kon... Meeting details will be distributed via email.
#ConSci
Event info: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
To join via Zoom, please register here: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/kon... Meeting details will be distributed via email.
#ConSci
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Join us this Thursday for an exciting talk by @sconinxphil.bsky.social!
Event info: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
To join via Zoom, please register here: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/kon... Meeting details will be distributed via email.
#ConSci
Event info: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
To join via Zoom, please register here: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/kon... Meeting details will be distributed via email.
#ConSci
Reposted by Sabrina Coninx
We've got some amazing speakers lined up and a broad range of topics. It's going to be a very stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion so please join us if you can!
Our schedule for our next network seminar has now been finalised!
Check out our website for the full list of awesome talks:
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/10/netw...
P.S. there's still time to register!
Check out our website for the full list of awesome talks:
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/10/netw...
P.S. there's still time to register!
October 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We've got some amazing speakers lined up and a broad range of topics. It's going to be a very stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion so please join us if you can!
Paper Alter🚨
The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View: doi.org/10.1080/0004...
This has been a long process of over five years of rewriting, rethinking, revising, and resubmitting. So happy that this is finally out there in the world.
The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View: doi.org/10.1080/0004...
This has been a long process of over five years of rewriting, rethinking, revising, and resubmitting. So happy that this is finally out there in the world.
The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View
In the philosophical literature, it is widely assumed that pains are unified and distinguished from other types of experiences by ‘what it is like’ to undergo them. While philosophers mostly argue ...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Paper Alter🚨
The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View: doi.org/10.1080/0004...
This has been a long process of over five years of rewriting, rethinking, revising, and resubmitting. So happy that this is finally out there in the world.
The Mysterious Pain Quality: A Meta-cognitive Interpretation of the Orthodox View: doi.org/10.1080/0004...
This has been a long process of over five years of rewriting, rethinking, revising, and resubmitting. So happy that this is finally out there in the world.
Het was een geweldige interview voor Trouw over chronische pijn, het ontbreken van fysiologische oorzaken en de rol van sociale acceptatie. Het is ook mijn eerste Artikel in het Nederlands: www.trouw.nl/verdieping/d...
Door te accepteren dat pijn er nu eenmaal is kunnen we veel leed verzachten, denkt deze filosoof
De zoektocht naar lichamelijke oorzaken van chronische pijn doet vaak meer kwaad dan goed, stelt ‘pijnfilosoof’ Sabrina Coninx. Ze bepleit een pijnvriendelijke maatschappij, die het lijden op andere m...
www.trouw.nl
March 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Het was een geweldige interview voor Trouw over chronische pijn, het ontbreken van fysiologische oorzaken en de rol van sociale acceptatie. Het is ook mijn eerste Artikel in het Nederlands: www.trouw.nl/verdieping/d...
For all the pain researchers: There is an interesting Call for Papers on Chronic Pain and Social Justice (edited by @jadawlittle-phd.bsky.social). Check it out: kiej.georgetown.edu/special-issu...
Call for Papers: Chronic Pain & Social Justice - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
This special issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal invites articles between 5,000 and 10,000 words that engage with ethical and social justice issues surrounding chronic pain management. De...
kiej.georgetown.edu
March 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For all the pain researchers: There is an interesting Call for Papers on Chronic Pain and Social Justice (edited by @jadawlittle-phd.bsky.social). Check it out: kiej.georgetown.edu/special-issu...
Quite excited to be a speaker at the ISPSM conference this year. Submission is still open until the 01.05.2025 👇
Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨
Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025
See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details.
#philsky
Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025
See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details.
#philsky
March 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Quite excited to be a speaker at the ISPSM conference this year. Submission is still open until the 01.05.2025 👇
Reposted by Sabrina Coninx
Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨
Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025
See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details.
#philsky
Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025
See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details.
#philsky
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It has been great writing this piece with @peterstilwell.bsky.social about the mind-body divide and why it is often misleading to speak of 'physical' vs. 'psychological' pain.
“Pain challenges us to think beyond the body versus mind and physical versus psychological, showing instead how deeply intertwined these realms are.” | buff.ly/KpQPYoU
Tap to read more from @sconinxphil.bsky.social and Peter Stilwell here.
#philsky #medsky
Tap to read more from @sconinxphil.bsky.social and Peter Stilwell here.
#philsky #medsky
Pain destroys the mind-body problem | Sabrina Coninx and Peter Stilwell
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March 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It has been great writing this piece with @peterstilwell.bsky.social about the mind-body divide and why it is often misleading to speak of 'physical' vs. 'psychological' pain.
Reposted by Sabrina Coninx
My book Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science is now available for pre-order! Please consider pre-ordering and reviewing the book! So thrilled to share it with the world!!!
www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-S...
www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-S...
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science: 9780367518110: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com
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February 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My book Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science is now available for pre-order! Please consider pre-ordering and reviewing the book! So thrilled to share it with the world!!!
www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-S...
www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-S...
Check out this great collection of papers just coming out on 'Scaffolding Bad'. Especially excited about all the amazing work on narratives!
The introduction to the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi is out! (This is by me, Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton, the co-editors.) All but two of the papers are out too, and those last ones are in the production pipeline.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Introduction: Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm - Topoi
Topoi -
link.springer.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Check out this great collection of papers just coming out on 'Scaffolding Bad'. Especially excited about all the amazing work on narratives!
Reposted by Sabrina Coninx
The introduction to the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi is out! (This is by me, Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton, the co-editors.) All but two of the papers are out too, and those last ones are in the production pipeline.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Introduction: Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm - Topoi
Topoi -
link.springer.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The introduction to the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi is out! (This is by me, Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton, the co-editors.) All but two of the papers are out too, and those last ones are in the production pipeline.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Sabrina Coninx
The moral significance of #consciousness or #sentience in artificial systems is one of the topics we'll discuss at our workshop “Evaluating Artificial Consciousness”:
eac-2025.sciencesconf.org
10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum
eac-2025.sciencesconf.org
10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum
January 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The moral significance of #consciousness or #sentience in artificial systems is one of the topics we'll discuss at our workshop “Evaluating Artificial Consciousness”:
eac-2025.sciencesconf.org
10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum
eac-2025.sciencesconf.org
10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum
Reposted by Sabrina Coninx
Just a reminder, the deadline for abstracts for our special collecting in Adaptive Behaviour on "Prospects for the Science of Enaction" is two weeks away! #philsky #cogsci #philmind #philsci journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
journals.sagepub.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Just a reminder, the deadline for abstracts for our special collecting in Adaptive Behaviour on "Prospects for the Science of Enaction" is two weeks away! #philsky #cogsci #philmind #philsci journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...