Philosophical Psychology

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Rachel Calcott & Brian D. Earp review 'A relational moral theory: African ethics in and beyond the continent', edited by Thaddeus Metz doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Xiaofei Zhao, Shifa Chen & Yule Peng review 'The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds', by Viorica Marian doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Zilong Zhong reviews 'Science meets philosophy: What makes science divided but still significant', edited by Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Adam Piovarchy reviews 'Living Accountably: Accountability as a Virtue', by C. Stephen Evans doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Sofiia Rappe reviews 'Predictive Minds: old problems and new challenges', edited by Curado and Gouvela doi.org/10.1080/0951...

In #vol38issue6 we have 5 amazing free access book reviews! Follow this thread to know more... #newbooks #philosophy #psychology #booksky #philsky #philpsy

The matching problem for evolutionary psychiatry Evolutionary psychiatry suggests that mental disorders can be explained in evolutionary terms (a) as failures of psychological mechanisms to produce the adaptive effects for which they were natural...

Hane Htut Maung argues that many evolutionary psychiatry hypotheses are empirically untestable in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Mania, urgency, and the structure of agency A debate persists over how to distinguish manic states from non-manic ones (such as depressions). A lacuna exists amongst these efforts, where a specifically agentive account of mania would sit. An...

In an open access paper Elliot Porter investigates mania, urgency, and the structure of agency doi.org/10.1080/0951...

To delay or not to delay: procrastination and suicide prevention When mental health professionals or social workers are confronted with a suicidal individual, one approach is to use all means to delay the act of suicide until the desire for death subsides. Encou...

René Baston addresses procrastination and suicide prevention in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Establishing the accuracy of self-diagnosis in psychiatry Self-diagnosis in psychiatry is where individuals diagnose themselves rather than rely upon official diagnosticians to supply a psychiatric diagnosis. The accuracy of self-diagnosis is a contested ...

In an open access paper Sam Fellows discusses the accuracy of self-diagnosis in psychiatry doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Four exciting new papers on mental health and psychiatry in our #vol38issue6 🧵 #openaccess #philpsy #philsky #philsci

Memory, anticipation, and future-bias One proposed explanation for a particular kind of temporal preference lies in a disparity between the emotional intensity of memory compared to anticipation. According to the memory/anticipation di...

Andrew J. Latham, Kristie Miller, James Norton, Shen Pan & Rasmus Pedersen investigate memory, anticipation and future bias doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Norm-induced forgetting: when social norms induce us to forget Sometimes subjects have sufficient internal and external resources to retrieve information stored in memory, in particular information that carries socially charged content. Yet, they fail to do so...

Marta Caravà discusses the case of social norms making us forget (this article is also part of an online thematic collection on understanding memory) doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Two exciting papers on #memory and #forgetting in #vol38issue6 🧵 #philsky #philpsy

New call for papers: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Tsou are the guest editor of a special issue dedicated to Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Submit your work here: think.taylorandfranc... Deadline 1 February 2026. think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philsci #philpsy

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Latest papers: Traill Dowie proposes a coherent conceptualization of integration by exploring the mechanisms at play in its application as a critical sub-dimension of psychedelic-assisted therapy doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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Reasoning

New call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning think.taylorandfranc...
Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
Deadline: 30 April 2026 #philsky

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Latest papers: Alessandro Acciai, Lucia Guerrisi, Alessio Plebe & Rossella Suriano investigate the potential use of current neural language models in psychological practice, particularly in diagnosing patients through the analysis of textual content doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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Latest papers: Nickolas Fascendini, Stefano Amorosi, Alberto Dell’Eva, Carlo Marchesi & Matteo Tonna explore the basic forms of subjectivity underpinning delusions in schizophrenia doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philpsy #philsky

Got an excited text from Jag Williams (my utterly phenomenal grad) about our Dennett paper - his very first paper, and first author-paper, is coming out soon! AAHHHH. So incredibly proud of him! Thanks to @lisabortolotti.com @ @journalphp.bsky.social
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Philosophers tempted to design and play games and make art!

New call for papers: think.taylorandfranc... Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction. Deadline: 31 July 2026.
Submit your work! What a lovely way to honour our editorial board member Helen De Cruz who was a philosopher, a musician, an artist, and a fiction writer! #philsky

Review: collective action, philosophy and law The anthology Collective Action, Philosophy and Law brings together two key strands of philosophical inquiry: social ontology and jurisprudence. Most of the papers use collective agency as a starti...

In an open access review article Mattias Gunnemyr examines how the anthology "Collective Action, Philosophy and Law" brings together two key strands of philosophical inquiry: social ontology and jurisprudence doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Two problems with neodualism of soul and body This article addresses the question of the object of psychology in the context of recent attempts in philosophy of mind to restore the concept of the soul in the framework of a strong anthropologic...

Cristián Hernández Maturana detects and explores two problems of #neodualism of soul and body: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Reappraisal as a means to self-transcendence: Aquinas’s model of emotion regulation informs the extended process model Recent work in positive psychology demonstrates the importance of self-transcendence: understanding oneself to be part of something greater than the self, such as a family, community, or tradition ...

In an open access article, Catherine A. Marple, Anne Jeffrey & Sarah A. Schnitker identify a suite of strategies for cultivating motivations that have not been explored in relation to character interventions: reappraisal strategies doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Illusions in speech sound and voice perception Hearing speech in a particular voice is a common experience in spoken linguistic communication. Nevertheless, the nature and role(s) of that experience are relatively under-theorized in philosophy....

In an open access article, Anna Drożdżowicz discusses two #illusions and two special effects in speech sound and voice perception: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Methods and models for investigating anomalous experiences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders The self-disorder model provides a phenomenological framework for understanding how the core symptoms of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSDs) are rooted in an instability of minimal selfhood. Th...

Pavan Brar, Elizabeth Pienkos, et al. consider which methodologies are best suited for investigating if and how anomalous experiences contribute to #schizophrenia spectrum disorders and psychotic states: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Mechanisms of skillful interaction: sensorimotor enactivism & mechanistic explanation The mechanistic model depicts scientific explanations as involving the discovery of multi-level, organized components that constitute a target phenomenon. Meanwhile, sensorimotor enactivism purport...

Jonny Lee & Becky Millar explore challenges to the compatibility of mechanism and sensorimotor #enactivism examining possible solutions: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Impact of philosophical workshops on the prison population: a qualitative and quantitative evaluation Prison creates philosophical needs due to the exceptionality of the situation. This study explores how philosophy can meet these needs by focusing on three aspects: critical thinking, personal rela...

José Barrientos-Rastrojo, Javier Saavedra-Macías & Edson Renato Nardi explore the impact of philosophy workshops on the prison population: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philosophyinprisons #philosophyforeveryone
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Causal complexity and psychological measurement Psychological measurement has received strong criticism throughout the history of psychological science. Nevertheless, measurements of attributes such as emotions or intelligence continue to be wid...

In an open access article, Markus Ilkka Eronen argues that psychological #measurement is fundamentally different from measurement in the physical sciences but can nevertheless be useful: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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