🎶Call for Papers European Network for the Philosophy of Music and Festival Musica invite submissions for our conference in Strasbourg, 25th-27th Sept 2025. 🎤 AI in Music: Creation, Performance, and Interpretation 🌍 Strasbourg, France 📅 Submit by 15th Jan 2025 (link below)

New paper: What is the folk concept of #art? Is it essentialist, requiring beauty, intentional creation and/or institutional recognition? Or is it a Wittgensteinian cluster concept? Answers from several studies (N=888) open access: shorturl.at/3453z #xphi #aesthetics

Our new paper on why people love sad art The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?

Eastern European Guide to Writing Reference Letters inference.vc/the-east-europ…

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

Read about our new paper on the X-Phi Blog!

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New preprint!

“Our findings offer empirical support for a longstanding philosophical idea that beauty appreciation can help people detach from their immediate practical concerns and adopt a broader, more abstract perspective,” said Dr Elze Sigute Mikalonyte. thetimes.com/uk/science/art…

Pondering artistic beauty encourages ‘big picture’ thinking cam.ac.uk/stories/artist…

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Congratulations to Dr Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė and Prof Simone Schnall on this important study Cambridge University Simone Schnall bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Art really can change how you think! 🧠🎨 Reflecting on artistic beauty can boost abstract thinking and evoke transcendent emotions, finds a Dept of Psychology study conducted by Simone Schnall and Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė at @KettlesYard 👇 cam.ac.uk/stories/artist…

🔥Exciting news in Experimental Philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below...

Meanwhile in Vilnius🇱🇹 🤘😅 delfi.lt/a/120111270

🇩🇪 German military vehicles being proudly put on display, by the Bundeswehr, in Lithuania 🇱🇹 Would’ve been unthinkable not so long ago Comes as Germany is setting up a brigade here to help strengthen NATO’s eastern flank - following Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine

Some random thoughts on Lithuania: 1) this place is more "European" than "Europe." 2) the drivers here stop for pedestrians who even look like they might be thinking of crossing the road. 3) Excellent, excellent bread.

Academic philosophers have figured out the secret to doing original work: pick questions that have sparked the interest of literally no one else