Will Moorfoot defends a solution to the conceivability argument called the reconciliatory response - even if #zombies are metaphysically possible, it does not follow that all versions of #physicalism are false: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue2 #openaccess #philsky #philpsy
4/20

Free will: it unlikely exists in light of psychological theories; it “floats” in the complexity paradigm This paper explores whether human proactivity can be considered an expression of free will. The discussion involves two paradigms, which are mutually complementary and encompass psychological proac...

Felix Lebed explores whether human proactivity can be considered an expression of free will in #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
14/14

De Yang proposes that our perception can be biased as the result of faulty assumptions made by the visual system in this #vol38issue2 paper: doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
13/14

Curiosity and zetetic style in ADHD While research on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has traditionally focused on cognitive and behavioral deficits, there is increasing interest in exploring possible resources associ...

In #vol38issue2 Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen & Somogy Varga discuss curiosity and zetetic style in ADHD doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
12/14

Guess who? Identity attribution as Bayesian inference An influential argument is that mental processes can be explained at three different levels of analysis: the functional, algorithmic, and implementation level. Identity attribution (the process whe...

Francesco Rigoli proposes a theory of identity attribution grounded on Bayesian inference in this #vol38issue2 #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
11/14

On the importance of infant carrying for social learning and the development of social cognition Infant carrying provides an important context for cognitive development and social learning in the first year of life. It enables children to perceive the world from a perspective similar to that o...

Juraj Bánovský argues for the importance of infant carrying for social learning and the development of social cognition #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
10/14

With great(er) power comes great(er) responsibility: an intercultural investigation of the effect of social roles on moral responsibility attribution This paper investigates the relevance of social roles and hierarchies for the attribution of blame and causation in five culturally different countries, namely China, Germany, Poland, the United Ar...

Pascale Willemsen, Albert Newen, Karolina Prochownik & Kai Kaspar investigate the relevance of social roles & hierarchies for the attribution of blame & causation in China, Germany, Poland, UAE, & USA #openaccess #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
9/14

In this #vol38issue2 #openaccess article, Michael Brady & Eranda Jayawickreme discuss philosophical theorising and psychological research into post-traumatic growth doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
8/14

Watching the watchmen: Vigilance-based models of honesty fail to explain it Promoting honesty is considered a key endeavor in the betterment of our societies. However, our understanding of this phenomenon, and of its evil twin, dishonesty, is still lacking. In this text, w...

In this #vol38issue2 #openaccess article, Camilo Ordóñez-Pinilla & William Jiménez-Leal suggest that both internal and external vigilance models fall short of explaining honesty and dishonesty doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
7/14

Virtue for affective engines Practical reasoning is reasoning about what to do. Practical wisdom is the traditional ideal of practical reasoning associated with virtue ethics. Practical wisdom requires the knowledge and skills...

Chris Zarpentine asks whether practical wisdom matches what contemporary cognitive science tells us about the production of human behavior and proposes the affective engine theory in #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
6/14

In #vol38issue2 Laura Sparaci & Shaun Gallagher critically review the strategy of resorting to non-observable categories in the study of #play, and propose the Kaleidoscope Model for play analysis #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky

5/14

It’s common sense – you don’t need to believe to disagree! It is often assumed that disagreement only occurs when there is a clash (e.g., inconsistency) between beliefs. In the philosophical literature, this “narrow” view has sometimes been considered the ...

In #vol38issue2 Miklós Kürthy, Graham Bex-Priestley & Yonatan Shemmer argue that in our common understanding disagreement is not just a clash of beliefs but also a clash of intentions #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
4/14

The normative turn in recent literature on psychotherapy The last few years have seen a marked increase of interest in the ethics of psychotherapy. As the field of mental health has recently taken on a new level of prominence, renewed commitment to the e...

In their review paper, Ulrich Koch & Kelso Cratsley explore the normative turn in the recent literature on #psychotherapy in #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
3/14

Can memory color effects be explained by cognitive penetration? Orange heart shapes are commonly perceived as slightly reddish, which is an example of the memory color effect (MCE). Given that the MCE is a modulation of visual memories of typical colors of fami...

Woojin Han aims to provide an explanation of the memory colour effects that is consistent with scientific studies in this #vol38issue2 article: doi.org/10.1080/0951... @philsky
2/14

Sacrificing objects instead of persons: Order effects without emotional engagement In this paper we develop test cases to adjudicate between dual-process and the causal mapping explanations of order effects. Using dilemmas with minimized emotional force, we explore new conditions...

In #vol38issue2 Emilian Mihailov, Ivar R. Hannikainen & Alex Wiegmann develop test cases to adjudicate between dual-process and the causal mapping explanations of order effects doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky
9/10

Jorge Ignacio Fuentes argues that efficient teleological function is compatible with mechanistic explanation and that neural computational mechanisms are efficiently functional in this sense in #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky
8/10

Gunning for affective realism: Emotion, perception and police shooting errors Affective realism, roughly the hypothesis that you “perceive what you feel”, has recently been put forward as a novel, empirically-backed explanation of police shooting errors. The affective states...

Raamy Majeed discusses those situations where affective states involved in policing in high-pressure situations result in police officers literally seeing guns even when none are present in #vol38issue2 #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky
7/10

Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice This paper offers an overview of the philosophical work on epistemic injustices as it relates to psychiatry. After describing the development of epistemic injustice studies, we survey the existing ...

Ian James Kidd, Lucienne Spencer & Havi Carel offer a review of the literature on epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice #openaccess in #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #epistemicinjustice
6/10

Implications of the TASI taxonomy for understanding inconsistent effects pertaining to free will beliefs Whether people possess free will has been a long-lasting philosophical debate. Recent attention in social psychology has been given to the behavioral consequences of believing in free will. Researc...

In #vol38issue2 Tom St Quinton & David Trafimow maintain that predictions about whether believing in free will influences behavior) depends on theoretical, auxiliary, statistical, and inferential assumptions (TASI) #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky
5/10

Becoming episodic: The Development of Objectivity We argue that objectivity is acquired by learning to refer to particular situations, that is, by developing episodicity. This contrasts with the widespread idea that genericity is crucial in develo...

Frauke Hildebrandt & Ramiro Glauer argue that objectivity is acquired by learning to refer to particular situations, that is, by developing episodicity in #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky
4/10

Blame-validation: Beyond rationality? Effect of causal link on the relationship between evaluation and causal judgment The Culpable Control Model assumes that causal judgments are irrational: a negative evaluative reaction to an agent would lead individuals to overestimate his causal contribution to a harm. However...

Based on two new studies, Valentin Goulette & Fanny Verkampt argue that common sense causal judgments seem to deviate relatively little from the criteria of rationality in #vol38issue2 doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky
3/10

Reconsidering commonsense consent In the 2020 Yale Law Journal article, “Commonsense Consent,” Roseanna Sommers argues that deception is compatible with the layperson’s intuitive sense of consent. That is, unlike the canonical unde...

In #vol38issue2 Hanna Kim proposes a new understanding of commonsense consent doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky
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