Cecily Whiteley

@cmwhiteley

Philosopher at the University of St Andrews. I work on consciousness and its disorders, and philosophy of psychiatry. Previously at Cambridge and LSE. https://www.cecilywhiteley.com

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Are we ready to study consciousness in crabs and the like? | Aeon Essays Consciousness science should move past a focus on complex mammalian brains to study the behaviour of ‘simpler’ animals

By my former colleague the inimitable @kristinandrews.bsky.social! aeon.co/essays/are-w...

20.11.2023 18:44 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Understanding Bias: Implicit Bias Reading Group, Special Issue! The Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, runs an ongoing reading group on Implicit Bias. In collaboration with Philosophical Psychology editors, Professor Lisa Bortolotti and Dr Katherin...

Next in our special issue series of the implicit bias reading group: Ella Whiteley on Attentional Discrimination and Victim Testimony, Nov 13th 2pm, link to paper and to join the reading group at the CEP page here! Join us! @lisabortolotti.bsky.social engagedphilosophy.org/understandin...

03.11.2023 12:13 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

Philosophers please spread the word! Permanent lectureship at St Andrews. We're looking for one with teaching expertise in ancient and non-Western philosophy. Details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DDW543/l... ... And, the place where you'd be working: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pscN...

03.11.2023 13:16 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Self-narratives and Medicalization in Psychiatric Diagnosis A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

New on the Imperfect Cognitions blog: Richard Hassall on self narratives and medicalisation in psychiatry imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2023/11/self... #philsky

01.11.2023 08:51 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0