Griffin Pion
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Griffin Pion
@griffinpion.bsky.social
Philosophy Ph.D. student at CUNY. Philosophy of CogSci, Mind, and Language.

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Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning!

Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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📄 NEW PRE-PRINT! 📄

How do we acquire beliefs? According to one intuitive view, we can entertain thoughts, and then choose to accept them as beliefs or reject them.

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Griffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz & Eric Mandelbaum, Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind - PhilPapers
How do we acquire beliefs? According to the Spinozan model, merely having a thought entails believing it. Only through a further, effortful process can one reject automatically-accepted beliefs. This ...
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April 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I should say this project was inspired by @quiltydunn.bsky.social's amazing paper on concepts and polysemy (doi.org/10.1111/mila...)! If you haven't already, go read it!
April 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning!

Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Thread below! (🧵1/9)
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April 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
one man’s modus ponens, another’s…
March 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
trump appoints jerry fodor to department of concept acquisition
November 14, 2024 at 12:37 PM