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Bence Nanay


 


To watch/listen:

Talk on the Fragmented Mind (at HowTheLightGetsIn festival): here

Audio only (for the Philosophy of our Times podcast): here

TED-Ed video on the ‘End of History’ Illusion: here

French translation, Arabic translation, Korean translation, Portuguese (Brazil)  translation, Portuguese (Portugal)  translation, Italian translation, Russian translation, Turkish translation, Greek translation, Vietnamese translation, Spanish translation, Hebrew translation, Romanian translation, Serbian translation, Polish translation, Persian translation, Kurdish translation, Gujarati translation, Chinese (simplified) translation, Chinese (traditional) translation, Japanese translation

Interview on my work for the UnMute podcast: here

Interview on my work for the Panpsycast podcast: here

Interview on my work on multimodal mental imagery (and on why we watch cooking shows) for Radio W (Colombia), in English and Spanish: here

Interview at TalkRadio UK (interviewed by Rufus Hound): here

Panel discussion on how to make decisions (for the Philosophy of our Times podcast): here

Panel discussion on beauty (at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival): here

Audio only (for the Philosophy of our Times podcast): here

On perceptual content and the content of mental imagery (for Consciousness Online): here

On the role of imagination in decision-making: here

On perceptual phenomenology (for Consciousness Online): here

On naturalism in philosophy of action: here

On top-down influences in perception (talk at Humboldt University, Berlin (second video): here

On token-first and type-first evolutionary explanation (talk at Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, second half of the video – the first half is Alex Rosenberg’s talk): here

A series of vlogs for Brains Blog:

On mental imagery: here

On mental imagery in perception: here

On multimodal mental imagery: here

On mental imagery in epistemology: here

On mental imagery in aesthetics: here

 

 

To read:

‘Know thyself’ is not just silly advice: It is actively dangerous (Aeon)

Republished at Quartz, American Philosophical Association, The Week, The Wire, Esquire, Psychology Today, SBS, Big Think, Britannica

Spanish translation, Chinese translation, Italian translation, another, different Italian translation, Greek translation, Rumanian translation, Hebrew translation, Arabic translation, Norwegian translation, Portuguese translation

Interview in Der Spiegel in the trophy-process balance (in German): here

            Republished in Presse und Sprache

Why Banksy’s shredding stunt wasn’t anti-capitalist – it was an emotional ode to the art marker (Quartz)

            Republished at MSN: here

Brazilian Portuguese translation in Epoca: here

Picked up by The CEO Magazine: here

Also picked up my Correio (in Portuguese: here

Can you stop being infected with other people’s desires? (Aeon)

Korean translation here, Persian translation here and here, Vietnamese translation here, Italian translation here

            Picked up by Radio RAI 3 (in Italian) Referenced in the Politico Playbook

The Irrationality of Imagination (iai.tv)

            Republished in Psychology Today

Why do people look better in masks? (Psychology Today)

            Picked up by Vice

Also by El Pais (in Spanish). And in El Pais again here.

            Also by NiT (in Portuguese)

            Also by Urban Life Tokyo (in Japanese)

Cats see things that ae not there (Psychology Today)

Spanish translation here, Lithuanian translation here, Indonesian translation here, Chinese translation here, Turkish translation here

Anti-mindfulness (Psychology Today)

The Cooking Show Paradox (Psychology Today)

            Picked up by Quo (in Spanish) here

            Picked up by Smashing Magazine here

Stupidity is part of human nature (iai.tv)

Republished at Psychology Today here

Picked up by Bored Panda

The case against the bucket list (Psychology Today)

Reprinted in Peer Bulletin Magazine 281: 10-11 (October 2020)  here

Animal pain and the new mysticism about consciousness (iai.tv)

Republished at Psychology Today here

#MeToo and the psychology of shame (Psychology Today)

Picked up by CNBC here

Hipsters and imaginative resistance (American Philosophical Association blog): here

Republished at Psychology Today as The Psychology of Hipsterdom here

French translation here, Japanese translation here, Dutch translation here, Chinese translation here, Slovenian translation here, Hungarian translation here

Life as a work of art: (iai.tv)

            Republished at Psychology Today here

Spanish translation here, Slovenian translation here, Chinese translation here.

Forget about catharsis, rapture or frissons – we are all shippers now (iai.tv)

Republished in Psychology Today as The Psychology of Shipping here

Vietnamese translation here

Picked up by VIX (in Spanish and Portuguese): here

Picked up by CCN (not CNN): here

Why we can’t unsee Mona Lisa’s moustache (TheConversation)

Why we don’t regret our tattoos (Psychology Today)

            Vietnamese translation here

Marcel Proust can tell us a lot about political echo chambers in age of Donald Trump and Brexit (TheConversation)

German translation here, Chinese translation here, French translation here.

Broke you New Year’s resolution already? Excellent! (Psychology Today)

Picked up by Stylist Magazine here

Is the Pandemic making you more conservative? (Psychology Today)

            Picked up by Bitch Media (!) here

Why ‘Squid Game’ is so popular (Psychology Today)

Korean translation here, Spanish translation here

Picked up by The Daily Tribune

How Pixar movies use psychology (Psychology Today)

Spanish translation here

Virtue signaling can be a good thing (Psychology Today)

Spanish translation here

Zelig and the psychology of wanting to fit in (Psychology Today)

Emotional actions are not exceptions: The are the rule (Psychology Today)

The Trump-Goldfinger illusion (Psychology Today)

The ‘new atheists’ are not atheist enough (TheConversation)

Turkish translation here

On my book Between Perception and Action for the OUP blog: here

On my book Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception for the OUP blog: here

Polish translation here

On aesthetic attention for the Aesthetics for birds blog: here

On elitism in aesthetics for the Aesthetic for birds blog: here

On aesthetic naivete for the Aesthetic for birds blog: here

Coverage of my research on crosscultural differences in perception in Kosmos here

Coverage of my research on vicarious emotions in Esquire here

Interview for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics: here

Interview for the American Philosophical Association: here

Interview for the volume Images: 5 Questions: here

Mini-interview on my work in philosophy of action: here