James Openshaw

Pleased to announce this is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. I first presented it in 2024, and thanks to many conversations I'm happy with how it turned out. Grateful to the guest editors and reviewers for their input too! philpapers.org/rec/OPEGRL

A reminder that NTU Philosophy is hiring! We have 3 tenured/tenure-track openings. Our department is friendly, collaborative, and a great place to do research. Happy to answer questions if you're thinking of applying. Please share with anyone who may be interested. #philjobs #PhilSky #AcademicJobs

We're hiring! NTU Philosophy has three tenured/tenure-track openings. Our department is friendly, collaborative, and a great place to do research. Happy to answer questions if you're thinking of applying. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #philjobs #PhilSky #AcademicJobs

📣 Workshop: The Semantics and Format of Episodic Representations. 11–12 Jan 2027. NTU Singapore. Philosophers and psychologists working on memory, imagination, and mental representation. Schedule and details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #PhilMind #CogSci

Late to post but this was a wonderful workshop! Thank you @vlc-lab.bsky.social

Looking forward to this workshop!

Interested in presenting your work on philosophy of memory at the APA? Submit your abstracts for PhOMO's next APA session, expected to be at the 2027 Pacific Division meeting in Portland, Oregon (March 24–27)! Submission deadline is September 18th. Full details: www.phomo.org/event-detail...

A new paper out (open access), co-authored with Chris McCarroll. We presented this at the first Eurasian Memory Meeting in Taipei (March 2024). Thanks to many for questions and comments. Nice to see it finally out. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Brilliant few days hosting the first APSA conference. ~110 presentations and lots of exciting discussion. Grateful to all my colleagues for co-organising and making it happen. Looking forward to future events in the region!

Now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Becko, Nikola, and I began working on this in 2023. One of those ones that starts out aiming to be an Analysis paper but ends up much longer. We're grateful to many people for discussions of this over the last few years! philpapers.org/rec/ANDADF-3

As program committee chair, it's my pleasure to announce the program for the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference. We have a great selection of papers, and I'm very excited to see everyone in Singapore come July! Details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #philsci

Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek are giving a talk entitled "The Foundations of Utilitarianism and its Concept of the Good" at NTU on 14 May 2026. All are welcome! More details can be found on the poster below.

Some photos from last week's Perception, Memory, Imagination workshop here at NTU, co-organised with @whcsung.bsky.social - we're grateful to everyone who presented, participated, and helped out for making it a successful event! Thanks also to CoHASS for the funding to make it happen.

Memory & Language 2 workshop at the CPM. Always nice to be back in Grenoble. Grateful to the organisers and looking forward to number 3.

Fond memories of last week's Eurasian Memory Meeting in Tokyo! 🗼 A celebration of much of the exciting research happening in philosophy of memory

Great postdoc opportunity for those with research interests in phil of language. (Those with expertise in phil of mind can look out for a similar position coming up at Grenoble.) This will be an exciting project!

Happy to announce the Perception, Memory, and Imagination workshop to take place here at NTU! Dates: April 9–10th. Details and registration here: event.ntu.edu.sg/2026-04-09-p...

I am hiring a second postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Foundations of Thermodynamics group! This will be a two-year position. Deadline: March 20, 2026. Please share with anyone who's interested. I'm happy to answer any questions 😄 See PhilJobs ad for more info: philjobs.org/job/show/30726

James Openshaw has been awarded an MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant! The project, 'Referential (dis)continuities in imagination and memory', will run for 3 years from March 2026 to Feb 2029. www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th www.phomo.org/event-detail...

We're excited to announce a few big updates to PhOMO 1. We have a new website and a logo! This revamp has been in the works for some time so we're happy to finally share it. 2. PhOMO will soon begin taking annual membership fees to defray costs of some activities, protect individuals [...]

Thrilled to announce that Kourken Michaelian’s and my ANR/DFG-funded project ‘SEER: The Semantics of Episodic Representations’ has received funding for 3 years. Stay tuned for project-related workshops and two postdoc positions (recruitment in spring 2026)!

Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️ Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue June 10-12, 2026 Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us! Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

I'm very pleased to announce the CfA for the PLM Workshop on philosophy (and neuroscience) of memory, which is organised by my friend, bsky.app/profile/jona...: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tr... Deadline for submissions: 30-11-25. It will be hosted by Ruhr University Bochum in mid Feb.

Final Call: We are hiring for multiple positions (open rank and open area). Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025. See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU! Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured position: philjobs.org/job/show/29338 Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out should you have any questions!

The deadline for applications to present at PhOMO's prospective session at the 2026 APA Central Division meeting (Chicago, Feb 18–21) is in 2 weeks. Please spread the word! More info and application instructions here: www.phomo.org/calls

We are looking for early career researchers interested in organising PhOMO's next (4th) online conference, expected to take place in 2027. Please spread the word! To apply, see our website: www.phomo.org/calls

IPM 4.5 starting now!

PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

The final contribution to the Reference and Remembering collection is now published! A great paper by @kristinaliefke.bsky.social and Markus Werning titled 'Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences': link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PhOMO's first ever group session at an APA event is next Friday (April 18, 7–9pm) at the Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco. If you'll be around we warmly encourage you to come along! We have a very exciting line-up: www.phomo.org/events/2025-...

Excited to share that my paper 'Remembering as the Same' is now published open access. Part of a fabulous collection co-edited by @openshaw.bsky.social, Kourken Michaelian, and Denis Perrin. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great post from on the past, present, and future of the Philosophy of Memory Organization, authored by James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

'Engrams and causal specificity' has now been published in Philosophical Psychology

My paper 'Interpreting continuism as a mechanistic thesis' has been accepted for publication in Synthese. In it, I aim to precisify the continuist hypothesis, where memory and imagination are taken to belong to the same natural kind. + (1/5) Preprint: josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html

A new article has been published on the #PhiMiSci website: "Is De Brigard a simulationist?" by Kourken Michaelian, Juan F. Álvarez, and James Openshaw. The authors investigate whether De Brigard really defends a position that dissolves the conflict between simulationism and causalism about memory.

An exciting talk this Friday at NTU's philosophy colloquium. All welcome. Looking forward to @nikolaandonovski.bsky.social 's visit very much!