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Bootstrapping Concepts via Hybridization: A Step-by-step Guide
Bootstrapping Concepts via Hybridization: A Step-by-step Guide
Carey’s (2009) account of bootstrapping in developmental psychology has been criticized out of a lack of theoretical...
Just Simulating? Linguistic Support for Continuism About Remembering and Imagining
Just Simulating? Linguistic Support for Continuism About Remembering and Imagining
Much recent work in philosophy of memory discusses the question whether episodic remembering is continuous with imagining....
Neuropsychiatric Constructs as Bridges Between Psychopathology and Neuropathology: A Medical Perspective
Neuropsychiatric Constructs as Bridges Between Psychopathology and Neuropathology: A Medical Perspective
This essay provides an analysis of the clinical problems that arise at the borderline between neurology and psychiatry. We...
The Contributions of the Bodily Senses to Body Representations in the Brain
The Contributions of the Bodily Senses to Body Representations in the Brain
Felix reaches up to catch a high line drive to left field and fires the ball off to Benji at home plate, who then tags the...
Experimental Philosophy of Free Will and the Comprehension of Determinism
Experimental Philosophy of Free Will and the Comprehension of Determinism
The experimental validity of research in the experimental philosophy of free will has been called into question. Several n...
Spatial Indexicals
Spatial Indexicals
This paper offers a theory of spatial indexicals like here and there on which such expressions are variables associated wi...
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...
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