Pain Intensities Kim Soland I’m honored to have my work selected for the Griffith award and grateful for the opportunity to share a summary of it here. Pains are standardly conceived as featuring a variety of phenomenal qualities and a singular magnitude: pain intensity. But there are circumstances in which …
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 …
Why are Visuo-spatial Representations Sometimes Weird? Rodrigo Garro Rivero, USC In cognitive science and philosophy, researchers hypothesize about the formats of mental representations via analogies to artifactual representations such as sentences, maps, pictures, etc. The guiding assumption is that if our mental representations were to be structured as artifactual representations, …
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that mentalizing is fast, easy, and early developing, while other research indicates that it is slow, …
