On Vehicle Indeterminacy in Memory Neuroscience Caitlin Mace University of Pittsburgh Neural representations are broadly understood to be individuable structures or processes in the brain that have a representational role in cognition or behavior. This representational role can be elucidated in a number of ways, such as by the causal …
What does attention do to perception? Yoonhee Jung Ned Block (2010; 2015) challenges representationalism on the grounds that covert attention—the allocation of attention without eye movement—can alter the phenomenal character of perceptual experience without changing its representational content.[1] He considers an experiment developed by Carrasco and her colleagues in which …
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, …
