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Open AccessAmodal Completion: Mental Imagery or 3D Modeling?
In amodal completion the mind in some sense completes the visual perceptual representation of a scene by representing parts of the scene hidden behind other objects. Cognitive science has had a lot to say abou...
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Open AccessEarly Conceptual Knowledge About Food
Recent research suggests that preschool (three- to six-years-old) children’s food cognition involves much more than the nutritional information usually conveyed by traditional food education programs. This rev...
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Open AccessEngaging with Conspiracy Believers
Conspiracy theories abound in social and political discourse, believed by millions of people around the world. In this article, we highlight when it is important to engage with people who believe in conspiracy...
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Open AccessEditorial: Hostile Emotions
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Open AccessHate: toward a Four-Types Model
Drawing on insights found in both philosophy and psychology, this paper offers an analysis of hate and distinguishes between its main types. I argue that hate is a sentiment, i.e., a form to regard the other a...
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Open AccessThe Epistemic Innocence of Elaborated Delusions Re-Examined
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, I want to re-examine the epistemic status of elaborated delusions. Bortolotti (2016, 2020) claims that they can be epistemically innocent. However, I will show that this t...
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Open AccessInner Speech and ‘Pure’ Thought – Do we Think in Language?
While the idea that thinking is a form of silent self-talk goes back at least to Plato, it is not immediately clear how to state this thesis precisely. The aim of the paper is to spell out the notion that we t...
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Open AccessSchizophrenic Thought Insertion and Self-Experience
In contemporary philosophy of mind and psychiatry, schizophrenic thought insertion is often used as a validating or invalidating counterexample in various theories about how we experience ourselves. Recent wor...
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Open AccessIs Anger a Hostile Emotion?
In this article I argue that characterizations of anger as a hostile emotion may be mistaken. My project is empirically informed and is partly descriptive, partly diagnostic. It is descriptive in that I am con...
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Open AccessTemporal Perspectives and the Phenomenology of Grief
In first personal accounts of the experience of grief, it is often described as disrupting the experience of time. This aspect of the experience has gained more attention in recent discussions, but it may none...
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Open AccessAn Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Value of Envy
The public and scholars alike largely consider envy to be reprehensible. This judgment of the value of envy commonly results either from a limited understanding of the nature of envy or from a limited understa...
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Open AccessDeconstructing the Conspiratorial Mind: the Computational Logic Behind Conspiracy Theories
In the social sciences, research on conspiracy theories is accumulating fast. To contribute to this research, here I introduce a computational model about the psychological processes underlying support for con...
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Open AccessThe Development and Validation of the Epistemic Vice Scale
This paper presents two studies on the development and validation of a ten-item scale of epistemic vice and the relationship between epistemic vice and misinformation and fake news. Epistemic vices have been d...
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Open AccessTestimonial Injustice: The Facts of the Matter
To verify the occurrence of a singular instance of testimonial injustice three facts must be established. The first is whether the hearer in fact has an identity prejudice of which she may or may not be aware;...
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Open AccessThe Different Bases of the Meaning and of the Seeing-in Experiences
There are some complex experiences, such as the experiences that allow us to understand linguistic expressions and pictures respectively, which seem to be very similar. For they are stratified experiences in w...
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Open AccessWhere is the Motivation in Motivated Numeracy?
In a series of very influential papers, Dan Kahan argues for “the identity protective cognition thesis”: the claim that politically motivated reasoning is a major factor explaining current levels of polarizati...
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Open AccessIn Defense of Introspective Affordances
Psychological and philosophical studies have extended J. J. Gibson’s notion of affordances. Affordances are possibilities for bodily action presented to us by the objects of our perception. Recent work has arg...
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Open AccessThe Informativeness Norm of Assertion
Although assertions are often characterised as essentially informative speech acts, there is a widespread disagreement concerning how the informativeness of assertions should be understood. This paper proposes...
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Open AccessWords and Roots – Polysemy and Allosemy – Communication and Language
Most substantive (content-bearing) words are polysemous, but polysemy is cross-categorial; for instance, the lexical forms ‘stone’ and ‘front’ are associated with families of interrelated senses and these sens...
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Open AccessAre Biology Experts and Novices Function Pluralists?
Philosophers have proposed many accounts of biological function. A coarse-grained distinction can be made between backward-looking views, which emphasise historical contributions to fitness, and forward-lookin...