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Non-doxastic Attitude Reports, Information Structure, and Semantic-Pragmatic Interface
Non-doxastic Attitude Reports, Information Structure, and Semantic-Pragmatic Interface
Truth conditions of sentences ascribing non-doxastic propositional attitudes seem to depend on the information structure o...
How to Think about Zeugmatic Oddness
How to Think about Zeugmatic Oddness
Zeugmatic oddness is a linguistic intuition of oddness with respect to an instance of zeugma, i.e. a sentence containing a...
Framing Effects in Object Perception
Framing Effects in Object Perception
In this paper we argue that object perception may be affected by what we call “perceptual frames.” Perceptual ...
Olfaction is a Spatial Sense
Olfaction is a Spatial Sense
This paper investigates the spatial dimensions of olfactory perception, challenging philosophical views that marginalize s...
Anorexia Nervosa, Bodily Alienation, and Authenticity
Anorexia Nervosa, Bodily Alienation, and Authenticity
Existing phenomenological accounts of anorexia nervosa suggest that various forms of bodily alienation and distorted bodil...
The Hard Problem of Content is Neither
The Hard Problem of Content is Neither
For the past 40 years, philosophers have generally assumed that a key to understanding mental representation is t...
Emotional Impulsivity and Sensorimotor Skills
Emotional Impulsivity and Sensorimotor Skills
In this paper I propose an explanation for the impulsivity displayed by some of our emotional experiences. I begin by look...
For an Epistemology of Stereopsis
For an Epistemology of Stereopsis
Philosophers and cognitive scientists try to understand, from different perspectives, the nature of the experience of real...
A Puzzle About Mental Lexicons and Semantic Relatedness
A Puzzle About Mental Lexicons and Semantic Relatedness
According to the received view in the literature on homonymy and polysemy representation, there is a difference between ho...
Life Satisfaction and Affect: Why Do these SWB Measures Correlate Differently with Material Goods and Freedom?
Life Satisfaction and Affect: Why Do these SWB Measures Correlate Differently with Material Goods and Freedom?
Two different types of subjective well-being (SWB) measures exhibit a remarkable difference in their correlations with peo...
Lying by Asserting What You Believe is True: a Case of Transparent Delusion
Lying by Asserting What You Believe is True: a Case of Transparent Delusion
In this paper, I argue (1) that the contents of some delusions are believed with sufficient confidence; (2) that a delusio...
Clearing our Minds for Hedonic Phenomenalism
Clearing our Minds for Hedonic Phenomenalism
What constitutes the nature of pleasure? According to hedonic phenomenalism, pleasant experiences are pleasant in virtue o...
Partial First-Person Authority: How We Know Our Own Emotions
Partial First-Person Authority: How We Know Our Own Emotions
This paper focuses on the self-knowledge of emotions. I first argue that several of the leading theories of self-knowledge...
Representationalism and Olfactory Valence
Representationalism and Olfactory Valence
One of the crucial characteristics of the olfactory modality is that olfactory experiences commonly present odours as plea...
From Altered States to Metaphysics: The Epistemic Status of Psychedelic-induced Metaphysical Beliefs
From Altered States to Metaphysics: The Epistemic Status of Psychedelic-induced Metaphysical Beliefs
Psychedelic substances elicit powerful, uncanny conscious experiences that are thought to possess therapeutic value. In th...
Beyond the Implicit/Explicit Dichotomy: The Pragmatics of Plausible Deniability
Beyond the Implicit/Explicit Dichotomy: The Pragmatics of Plausible Deniability
In everyday conversation, messages are often communicated indirectly, implicitly. Why do we seem to communicate so ineffic...
Teasing Apart the Roles of Interoception, Emotion, and Self-Control in Anorexia Nervosa
Teasing Apart the Roles of Interoception, Emotion, and Self-Control in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is widely considered to be a bodily disorder accompanied by unrealistic perceptions about one’...
Body Checking in Anorexia Nervosa: from Inquiry to Habit
Body Checking in Anorexia Nervosa: from Inquiry to Habit
Body checking, characterized by the repeated visual or physical inspection of particular parts of one’s own body (e....
Enhanced but Indeterminate? How Attention Colors our World
Enhanced but Indeterminate? How Attention Colors our World
Attention makes things look brighter and more colorful. In light of these effects, representationalist philosophers propos...
Literalism in Autistic People: a Predictive Processing Proposal
Literalism in Autistic People: a Predictive Processing Proposal
Autistic individuals are commonly said – and also consider themselves – to be excessively literalist, in the s...
Anorexia Nervosa, Body Dissatisfaction, and Problematic Beliefs
Anorexia Nervosa, Body Dissatisfaction, and Problematic Beliefs
Body dissatisfaction has long been considered an integral component of and driving force behind anorexia nervosa. In this ...
Rethinking Bullshit Receptivity
Rethinking Bullshit Receptivity
The bullshit receptivity scale—a methodological tool that measures the level of profoundness that participants assig...
Causal Connections Between Anorexia Nervosa and Delusional Beliefs
Causal Connections Between Anorexia Nervosa and Delusional Beliefs
Numerous studies of the beliefs of people with anorexia nervosa (AN) suggest that a subset of such individuals may experie...
Does the Emotional Modulation of Visual Experience Entail the Cognitive Penetrability of Early Vision?
Does the Emotional Modulation of Visual Experience Entail the Cognitive Penetrability of Early Vision?
Empirical research suggests that motive states modulate perception affecting perceptual processing either directly, or ind...
Perceptual Similarity: Insights From Crossmodal Correspondences
Perceptual Similarity: Insights From Crossmodal Correspondences
Perceptual similarity is one of the most fiercely debated topics in the philosophy and psychology of perception. The docum...
Prediction and Art Appreciation
Prediction and Art Appreciation
Every art encounter requires making predictions given that art is rife with uncertainty. What is it to appreciate art whil...
LTP Revisited: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Synaptic Efficacy
LTP Revisited: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Synaptic Efficacy
Changes in synaptic strength are described as a unifying hypothesis for memory formation and storage, leading philosophers...
Doxastic Revision in Non-Human Animals: The First-Order Model
Doxastic Revision in Non-Human Animals: The First-Order Model
If we focus on current debates on how creatures revise or correct their beliefs, we can identify two opposing approaches t...
Thought Insertion without Thought
Thought Insertion without Thought
There are a number of conflicting accounts of thought insertion, the delusion that the thoughts of another are inserted in...
The Dual Role of Inner Speech in Narrative Self-Understanding and Narrative Self-Enactment
The Dual Role of Inner Speech in Narrative Self-Understanding and Narrative Self-Enactment
Psychologists and philosophers agree that personal narratives are a central component of one’s identity. The concept...
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