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Philosophical Psychology is a journal by Taylor and Francis aimed at developing and strengthening the links between philosophy and the psychological sciences.
Dorna Behdadi claims that many agents commonly exempted from moral responsibility, like young children, adults with late-stage dementia, and nonhuman animals, may nevertheless qualify as participants in moral responsibility practices. #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
16/16
Blame as participant anger: extending moral claimant competence to young children and nonhuman animals
Following the social conception of moral agency, this paper claims that many agents commonly exempted from moral responsibility, like young children, adults with late-stage dementia, and nonhuman a...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Francesca Secco maintains that reading represents a real challenge to the intention-for-action theories and shows that what an agent can actively do should not be limited to behaviors that involve intentions. doi.org/10.1080/0951...
15/16
“What are we doing when we are reading?”
When we read a list of words, are we doing something, or is it something that just happens to us? On the one hand, according to intention-for-action theories, reading can be active only if we do it...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Amanda Corris claims that natural environments scaffold our affective lives by enabling, enhancing, and promoting a specific bodily affective profile characterized by restorativeness and immersion attentiveness. doi.org/10.1080/0951...
14/16
Affective scaffolding in nature
Environmental scaffolding refers to the ways in which agents make use of features of the environment to augment and enhance their cognitive behavior. Recent discussion on the notion of affective sc...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Haotian Zhang, Zheli Xuan, Feng Yu, Xiaojun Ding & Yufang Han examine the moral judgments and perceived identity changes associated with technological implants, unveiling “naturalness bias” doi.org/10.1080/0951...
13/16
Crafting the modern Prometheus: navigating morality and identity in the age of cyborg enhancements
Across three vignette-based experiments (N = 697) primarily involving young adults from China, our research systematically examines the moral judgments and perceived identity changes associated wit...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Daniel Munro argues that the way false conspiracy theories are disseminated often involves packaging them as part of narratives that offer comforting alternatives to ugly truths doi.org/10.1080/0951...
12/16
Conspiracy theories and the epistemic power of narratives
We often turn to comforting stories to distract ourselves from emotionally painful truths. This paper explores a dark side of this tendency. I argue that the way false conspiracy theories are disse...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Zeynep Akcaoglu, Thomas Vaessen, Ana Teixeira, Rob Sips, Robin Achterhof, Zeno Van Duppen, Jasper Feyaerts & Inez Myin-Germeys investigate how individuals with a psychotic disorder experience social disconnection doi.org/10.1080/0951...
11/16
Social disconnectedness in psychosis: a qualitative perspective
Research increasingly highlights the importance of social disconnectedness for the development of psychosis. However, the perspective of individuals with psychosis remains largely underexplored. At...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Lambros Malafouris, Alexander Aston & Nicolás Alessandroni argue that the human ability to enact and share intentions rests upon a relational and participatory foundation of situated activity #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
10/16
Rethinking the “we” in “we” intentionality: intention-sharing with—and not simply about—things
This paper aims to place the general thesis for a species-unique “shared” or “we” intentionality, against the theoretical background of the material engagement approach. We will argue that the huma...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Themistoklis Pantazakos & Sarah Arnaud suggest that epistemic injustice revolves around phenomenology and regards the failure of mental health professionals to acquire and utilize information that service users are experts in #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
9/16
Determining the scope of epistemic injustice within psychiatry
In this article, we delve in debates around the usefulness of the notion of epistemic injustice in psychiatry to show that the concept has been misportrayed in the literature. We suggest that epist...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
B. Salman & A. J. Baart performed a qualitative inquiry on a closed psychiatric ward and found that both patients and psychiatrists were epistemically flexible, but epistemic negotiations were more complex and variegated than often presumed doi.org/10.1080/0951...
8/16
Epistemic negotiations on a closed psychiatric ward
On a closed psychiatric ward, conflict and disagreement may exist between patients and psychiatrists on how to interpret the patient’s condition. This forms a complexity for implementing contempora...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Sidney Carls-Diamante speculates on the different forms multiple #consciousness may take, and demonstrates how they may be able to implement various functions of consciousness doi.org/10.1080/0951...
7/16
On the multiplicity of consciousness
It is commonly assumed that where consciousness is present, it is a single stream. This notion is bolstered by functions attributed to consciousness, particularly providing multi-faceted experience...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Regina E. Fabry explores narrative gaslighting, where people maliciously interfere with the self-narrator’s mnemonic, interpretational, and conceptual abilities. #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
6/16
Narrative gaslighting
Self-narration, many philosophers assume, makes important contributions to our mental lives. Two views on self-narration can be distinguished. On the internalistic view, self-narration unfolds in t...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Yarden Niv & Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan find systematically higher levels of civic engagement in political philosophers, even after controlling for education level, gender, age, and immigration status #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
5/16
Cross-national evidence for political philosophers’ civic behavior
The moral behavior of philosophers has gained notable attention in recent years as a robust means of exploring the relationship between moral reflection and behavior. These studies post that if phi...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
E.M. Caruso, A.J. Latham & K. Miller investigate what the best explanation is for the Future-bias, i.e. the preference for positive states of affairs to be located in the future, and for negative states of affairs to be located in the past #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
4/16
Is future bias just a manifestation of the temporal value asymmetry?
Future-bias is the preference, all else being equal, for positive states of affairs to be located in the future not the past, and for negative states of affairs to be located in the past not the fu...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Maarten van Doorn discusses the issue of why we maintain false beliefs and asks whether it is the person's epistemic vices or epistemic pollution in the environment to cause the problem #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
3/16
Misinformation, observational equivalence and the possibility of rationality
In vice epistemology, bad epistemic outcomes, such as maintaining false beliefs, are interpreted as indicators of blameworthy irrationality. Conversely, a growing trend in philosophical psychology ...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Yavuz Recep Başoğlu offers a comprehensive examination of allegedly evidence-insensitive illusions of #meaning and argue that none is evidence insensitive in a way that might support the view that we can perceive meanings #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0951...
2/16
Perceiving meaning and the argument from evidence-insensitivity
Various illusions of meaning appear to be insensitive to counter-evidence. That is, in a similar fashion to the well-known Müller-Lyer illusion in vision, certain illusions of meaning seem not to f...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Maria Balaska reviews Psychoanalysis and Ethics: the necessity of perspective (Routledge)
by David M. Black doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #booksky #philpsy
8/8
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Mahmud Nasrul Habibi, Monicha Ana Billa, Ida Umaria Hentihu, Arvan Setiawan & Kristina Serenem review The Developmental Psychology of Personal Identity: A Philosophical Perspective (Bloomsbury), edited by Massimo Marraffa and Cristina Meini doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #booksky #philpsy
7/8
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Xiaolan Gu, Shifa Chen, Yule Peng & Yue Qin review The Study of Bilingual Language Processing (OUP) by Nan Jiang doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Jessica Sutherland reviews A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing (OUP) by Mark Fabian doi.org/10.1093/oso/... #philsky #booksky #philpsy
5/8
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Huan Liu & Jinming Zhou review Sentence Processing (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press), by Fuyun Wu doi.org/10.1080/0951...
4/8
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM