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philosopher: consciousness, rationality, self-evidencing, contemplation https://www.monash.edu/m3cs

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics and information integration during percept formation often distinguish clinical from nonclinical populations. Computational psychiatry can elucidate these variations through two primary approaches: (i) Bayesian modeling, which treats perception as an unconscious inference, and (ii) an active, information-seeking perspective (e.g., reinforcement learning), which frames perceptual switches as internal actions. Our synthesis aims to leverage multistability to bridge these computational psychiatry subfields, linking human and animal studies as well as connecting behavior to underlying neural mechanisms. Perceptual multistability emerges as a promising noninvasive tool for clinical applications, facilitating translational research and enhancing our mechanistic understanding of cognitive processes and their impairments.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

This event will happen tomorrow. Should be fun.

🚨 New paper out. What is our shared understanding of dignity in community settings? Can ethics and philosophy benefit from evidence about this? This paper relates our recent empirical work to philosophical theory. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to @kathrynnave.eurosky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social and everyone else who joined us for this wonderful double-header today! ✨

Want to know about cognitive effort? Check out this new paper from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social PhD candidate @mengtingzhang.bsky.social! Brings information theory to psychology of effort, includes new ideas about ego depletion, and more. (Open Access).

Both books are free to download from @mitpress.bsky.social ! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

This was fun and super interesting. Thanks to @ispsm.bsky.social for organising. Contrasting these two perspectives seems very fruitful. I strongly recommend @kathrynnave.eurosky.social’s book - an amazing read. (And open access, as is mine)

Just a reminder that you can still register to this ISPSM event with Jakob Hohwy and Kathryn Nave

philevents.org/event/show/1... Philosophers of mind/cognitive science: please consider submitting your abstract to the 4th online conference of the @ispsm.bsky.social 👇 • Great line-up of keynote speakers • Deadline: 31 July 2026 • Online conference: 4-6 November 2026

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for Abstracts   The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to...

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Appeals to the value of treating people with dignity are commonplace in certain community settings, especially in health, disability, and aged care. In contrast, dignity has been relatively neglect...

How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks to @kathrynnave.eurosky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social and everyone else who joined us for this wonderful double-header today! ✨

My first paper is now out! This theoretical work explores how understanding cognitive effort within the active inference framework can help address several ongoing debates in the field. I am deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this project. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cognitive effort is a significant phenomenon, yet current psychological research remains entangled in several unresolved challenges. These include debates over the existence of the ego depletion ef...