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Indicative conditionals: probabilities and relevance
We propose a new account of indicative conditionals, giving acceptability and logical closure conditions for them. We start from Adams’ Thesis: the...
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Can we perceive mental states?
In this paper, I defend Non-Inferentialism about mental states, the view that we can perceive some mental states in a direct, non-inferential way....
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Quasirealism as semantic dispensability
I argue that standard explanationist solutions to the problem of cree** minimalism are largely on the right track, but they fail to correctly...
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Generic inferential rules for slurs: Dummett and Williamson on ethnic pejoratives
Michael Dummett has proposed an influential analysis of the meaning of ethnic and racial slurs based on inferential rules. Timothy Williamson,...
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A General Schema for Bilateral Proof Rules
Bilateral proof systems, which provide rules for both affirming and denying sentences, have been prominent in the development of proof-theoretic...
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Thinking beyond Imagining
This paper defends a rational account of conceivability according to which conceiving is a kind of modal thinking that is distinct from imagining...
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An Inferential Theory of Causal Reasoning
We present a general formalism of causal reasoning that encompasses both Pearl’s approach to causality and a number of key systems of nonmonotonic...
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Updating our Theories of Perceiving: From Predictive Processing to Radical Enactivism
Radically enactive accounts of perceiving directly and diametrically oppose their representationalist rivals. This is true even of the most radical...
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Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness
Recent research in the area of the so-called EEEE cognition (extended, embodied, embedded, enacted) has shown that human cognition and its...
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Disagreement and Belief I: Puzzles About Disagreement
This chapter is dedicated to an inquiry into the nature of belief insofar as this nature is relevant to our understanding of disagreement. It first...
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The Distinctive Phenomenology of Empathy
In the following chapter, I offer a preliminary take on one of the central thematic threads of this book: the phenomenology of empathy. I begin by...
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Practical Inferences
In his (2008) “On Practical Abduction,” Risto Hilpinen argues that practical inference doesn’t always fit a deductive or quasi-deductive mold, often...
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Cognitive Penetrability
In this chapter I introduce the thesis that perceptual appearances are cognitively penetrable and analyse cases made against phenomenal conservatism...
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Normative concepts and the return to Eden
Imagine coming across an alternative community such that, while they have normative terms like 'ought' with the same action-guiding roles and...
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Inferentialism and Its Discontents
A perennial question in consideration of logic concerns where the rules of logic come from? This question is overflowing with sub-questions...
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Can video games be philosophical?
Some video games are said to be philosophical. Despite video games having received some attention in academic philosophy, that contention has not...
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Inductive neutrality and scientific representation
Prima facie, accounts of scientific representation should illuminate how models support justified surrogative reasoning while remaining neutral on...
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Hearing meanings: the revenge of context
According to the perceptual view of language comprehension, listeners typically recover high-level linguistic properties such as utterance meaning...
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Single-Assumption Systems in Proof-Theoretic Semantics
Proof-theoretic semantics is an inferentialist theory of meaning, usually developed in a multiple-assumption and single-conclusion framework. In that...
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Karl Popper on Deduction
We outline Karl Popper’s theory of deduction, which he developed in the 1940s. In his theory it is assumed that a consequence relation is given or...