Johannes Mahr

Episodic Construction: Compositional or Associative? — The Junkyard A post by Joshua Myers and Johannes Mahr. Imagination and episodic memory are intimately linked. Imagination draws on previous experience—when picturing yourself on a beach in Portugal sipping mango ...

Josh Myers and I argue that episodic construction is compositional over at the Junkyard Blog. Check it out here: junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...

The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter?

Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!

Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...

Many Minds: What is memory for? Everyone loves a good evolutionary puzzle. Why do we have appendices? Why do we dream? Why do we blush? At first glance, memory would not seem to be in this category. It's clearly useful to remember s...

Check out the interview I did on the Many Minds Podcast - we chat about all things memory: manyminds.libsyn.com/what-is-memo...

Sorry to hear about these struggles, Thom. I've had some of these experiences myself. I hope things will look brighter soon. Sending you lots of good wishes.

New Preprint! 🤩 We investigated whether people across 10 languages and 7 countries share basic intuitions underlying the "Causal Theory" of remembering. While there is some variation, it seems that these intuitions are widely shared across languages and cultures. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Love this! Thanks for sharing.

We wrote a paper on how we think language interacts with Theory of Mind, why the connection is tricky to find experimentally, and what this means for pragmatics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This looks so cool! Can I come? :)

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now

xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...

Identity is painfully contingent for the culturally bereaved | Aeon Essays As a child, I was torn from a culture that I never knew. It is a loss that defines me, even as I struggle to define the loss

This is excellent!
aeon.co/essays/ident...

Philosophers and psychologists- don't forget to submit to the OG conference! The SSPP has long fostered deep conversations between philosophers and psychologists-and has long been a place for animal cognition researchers and philosophers to exchange ideas. Deadline for Phil Nov 22, for Psych Dec 1

🚨I’m looking for a postdoc! 🚨 (1 year with possibility for a second), starting September/October. Reach out if you’re a psychologically minded philosopher or a philosophically minded psychologist interested in memory, imagination, social relationships, or human communication!