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Bootstrapping and Its Discontents in Consciousness Science
Bootstrapping and Its Discontents in Consciousness Science
This paper critically examines the methodological strategy of iterative bootstrapping within marker-based natural kind rea...
Who’s the Surgeon? Cognitive Implications of Gendered Language
Who’s the Surgeon? Cognitive Implications of Gendered Language
Psycholinguistic evidence shows that grammatical gender can shape mental representations, influencing how individuals inte...
Functional Engagement as the Hallmark of Occurrent States
Functional Engagement as the Hallmark of Occurrent States
The antonyms “occurrent” and “standing” are used in philosophy of mind to distinguish two types of...
The Sense of Commitment in Joint Action: A Cross-Cultural Study Comparing India and the UK
The Sense of Commitment in Joint Action: A Cross-Cultural Study Comparing India and the UK
Previous research involving American and Western European participants provides evidence that, in the context of joint act...
Classifying Genetic Essentialist Biases using Large Language Models
Classifying Genetic Essentialist Biases using Large Language Models
The rapid rise of generative AI, including LLMs, has prompted a great deal of concern, both within and beyond academia. On...
Conceptual Revision in Action
Conceptual Revision in Action
Conceptual engineering is the practice of revising concepts to improve how people talk and think. Its ability to improve t...
Epistemic Challenges Faced by Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy: Evidence from an International Survey
Epistemic Challenges Faced by Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy: Evidence from an International Survey
The widespread use of English in the field of philosophy facilitates international collaboration but may also pose signifi...
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...
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