Zoe Drayson
@zoedrayson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Cognitive Science at UC Davis. Philosophical Shark Jumper ®️ 🦈
Team plodding and sensible here.
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Team plodding and sensible here.
Yes! It's very much a continuation of that project. And part of a larger project pushing for realism on broadly functional/dispositional grounds. Realism without RTM!
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Yes! It's very much a continuation of that project. And part of a larger project pushing for realism on broadly functional/dispositional grounds. Realism without RTM!
You can probably get a pretty good sense of it from my paper - I intend it to be comprehensible by people who haven’t read the book I’m responding to!
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You can probably get a pretty good sense of it from my paper - I intend it to be comprehensible by people who haven’t read the book I’m responding to!
And I consider how different ways of thinking about “internal states” can affect the arguments for and against fictionalism.
October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
And I consider how different ways of thinking about “internal states” can affect the arguments for and against fictionalism.
As I say in the paper, I take the coherence of mental fictionalism as a given. My challenge is to the motivation for the position rather than its coherence.
October 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
As I say in the paper, I take the coherence of mental fictionalism as a given. My challenge is to the motivation for the position rather than its coherence.
Preprint available at philpapers.org/rec/DRAWMM
Zoe Drayson, What motivates mental fictionalism? - PhilPapers
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As Met...
philpapers.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Preprint available at philpapers.org/rec/DRAWMM
“Catherine Connolly leaves the immersion on” had me cackling
October 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“Catherine Connolly leaves the immersion on” had me cackling
I read this as Pigeon Street Detectives and thought you meant these guys
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I read this as Pigeon Street Detectives and thought you meant these guys