Philosophical Psychology

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Latest papers: Pia Campeggani, Marco Viola & Marco Marini presents experimental evidence that gender double standards significantly shape evaluative perceptions of men and women professors among philosophy students in Italian universities #philsky #philpsy doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Philosophical temperament Many philosophers have worried about what philosophy is. Often they have looked for answers by considering what it is that philosophers do. Given the diversity of topics and methods...

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 we share some highlights: trending now is a fifteen-year-old paper by Livengood, Sytsma, Feltz, Scheines & Machery: Philosophical temperament. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Read it free access! #philsky

Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice This paper offers an overview of the philosophical work on epistemic injustices as it relates to psychiatry. After describing the development of epistemic injustice studies, we survey the existing ...

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 we share some highlights: most cited paper in the last three years is by Kidd, Spencer & Carel: Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice. Read it open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

The critical time for critical thinking: intellectual virtues as intrinsic motivations for critical thinking This paper addresses the complexity of critical thinking, a multifaceted concept that includes cognitive skills, knowledge, and dispositions. We argue that existing literature has largely overlooke...

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 we share some highlights: our most read article in the last year is by Schöpfer & Hernandez: The critical time for critical thinking: intellectual virtues as intrinsic motivations for critical thinking. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Read it open access! #philsky

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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...

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...
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“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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...
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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 ...

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...
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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...

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...
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Our #vol38issue8 is full of exciting articles! Follow this thread for papers on illusions, biases, misinformation, conspiracies, gaslighting, epistemic injustice, the moral behaviour of philosophers and many more cool topics... #philsky #philpsy
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Latest papers: Charles Rathkopf & Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs assess the claim that VR promotes moral learning by simulating another's perspective in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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Latest papers: Nader Abazari & Suvi-Maria Saarelainen explore how different cultural contexts contribute to sources of meaning and how certain sources persist within cultures over time in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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Latest papers: Michael D. Kirchhoff argues mental representation in cognitive science is not a useful fiction because it fails to be genuinely explanatory in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #phipsy

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Maria Balaska reviews Psychoanalysis and Ethics: the necessity of perspective (Routledge)
by David M. Black doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #booksky #philpsy
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