Our MA student Lara Bräuchle and PhD student Yizhi Li entered the competitive annual ASSC meeting this year in Tokyo (https://assc27.net). Yizhi presentd his work on Mind Wandering, and Lara her empirical data obtained with Tristan Bekinschtein in Cambridge on Attention and chronic pain experience. Congratulations!

As an extension to the Covid-19-related project on "Why do people believe weird things? Bayesian Brains, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Vices" (funded by Volkswagen Foundation), there will be a further workshop on October 4-5, 2024. This will be organized with Prof. Olena Komar (Kyiv) and Prof. Nikola Kompa (Osnabrück) with financial support from the Philipp-Schwartz Initiative from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. See webpage for further details: www.pe.rub.de/philosophy/badbeliefs.

Harris, K.R. (2024) Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology. London: Routledge.

Schlicht, T. (2023) Philosophy of Social Cognition. London: Palgrave.

Smortchkova, J., Dolega, K., Schlicht, T. (eds.) (2021): What are Mental Representations? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Venter, E. (2024) Integrating embodied cognition and predictive processing. In: The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition. 2nd ed. (pp. 101-109)

T. Starzak, T. Schlicht (2023) Can Affordances be Reasons? In: Philosophical Psychology doi:10.1080/09515089.2023.2270694.(Open Access)

Poth, N., Dolega, K. (2023). Bayesian Belief Protection: A Study of Belief in Conspiracy Theories. In: Philosophical Psychology. doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2168881 (Open Access)