The Pluralistic Evolution of Factive Mindreading Gavin Robert FosterPurdue University The following is a significantly abridged version of a much-longer paper. As such, there are certain qualification and nuances that are lacking. For those interested in reading the current draft, please send me an email at foste362 at purdue dot …
Hi Everyone, This week, we’re excited to share a series of posts celebrating the 2026 meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia this Spring. We’ll first have a quick intro from this year’s philosophy program coordinator, Josh Mugg. (Busy couple of weeks …
Response to Commentators Joshua Mugg Response To Curry One goal of my project is to provide an empirically informed account of cognitive control that can be marshalled in defense of voluntarism of belief. Curry offers a dilemma for my account of control and voluntarism about belief. By his lights, I …
Comments on “From Human Reasoning to Belief” Aliya Rumana The holding power of dual-process theory in experimental process psychology is mysterious if we don’t consider the basic constraints on statistical testing. First, every study aims to reject the null hypothesis (H0) in favour of the alternative hypothesis (HA). Second, H0 …
Commentary on “From Human Reasoning to Belief” Lesley Walker In Joshua Mugg’s book, From Human Reasoning to Belief, he offers an empirically viable alternative to dual process theory and in doing so unifies three contentious cases of belief. The first are cases of wishful thinking, the second, cases of faith, …
DJ Homunculus Devin Sanchez Curry The first aim of Josh Mugg’s From Human Reasoning to Belief is to propose a new, empirically viable theory of central cognition (and especially belief fixation and revision): the Soundboard Account of Human Reasoning. The book achieves this aim admirably, both detailing how extant evidence …
Precis of “From Human Reasoning to Belief” Joshua Mugg Many thanks to the Brains Blog and Dan Burnston for the opportunity to discuss my book with Devin Curry, Aliya Rumana, and Lesley Walker. In this initial post, I will provide an overview of the book. Those interested in a longer …
