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Modesty’s inoffensive self-presentation Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Derick Hughes
Philosophers often characterize modesty as a disposition that primarily or exclusively involves individual attitudes about one’s worth in relation to others. Borrowing from William James, I offer a...
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Challenging philosophical instincts and embracing complexity: a commentary on Elizabeth Barnes’s “health problems” Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Linda Maqutu
This commentary delves into Elizabeth Barnes’ upcoming publication, “Health Problems,” which embarks on the bold and essential journey of scrutinizing established philosophical frameworks surroundi...
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Reality testing and metacognition Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Nathaniel Greely
Reality testing is the process by which we distinguish our own perceptual states from imagination or episodic memory. I argue that reality testing is a metacognitive process. Since reality testing ...
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Phenomenal consciousness and moral status: taking the moral option Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Joseph Gough
Intuitively, there is a close link between moral status and phenomenal consciousness. Taking the link seriously can serve as the basis of a proposal that appears to have a surprising number of theo...
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Thinking in schizophrenia and the social phenomenology of thought insertion Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Pablo López-Silva
Patients suffering from delusions of thought insertion (TI) report that external agents of different nature have placed thoughts into their minds. The symptom involves distressing feelings of intro...
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Mental disorders in focus Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Daniel Montero-Espinoza
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2024)
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Emotions in conceptual spaces Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Michał Sikorski, Ohan Hominis
The overreliance on verbal models and theories in psychology has been criticized for hindering the development of reliable research programs (Harris, 1976; Yarkoni, 2020). We demonstrate how the co...
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Feeling bad about mass murders: what does it tell us about moral psychology and emotion? Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Marco Viola
Munch-Jurisic’s book thoroughly describes several cases of severe distresses reported and expressed by perpetrators of tremendous acts such as mass murders. Arguing against a simplistic reading acc...
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Review: collective action, philosophy and law Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Mattias Gunnemyr
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...
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Socialized into depression – toward a social phenomenological psychopathology Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Domonkos Sik
The article aims at expanding the horizon of phenomenological psychopathology of depression from a social theoretical perspective. Based on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological ontology, in the first s...
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Individuating anger and other emotions: Lessons from disgust Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Juan R. Loaiza, Diana Rojas-Velásquez
Munch-Jurisic’s account of perpetrator disgust raises important new questions concerning the complexity of emotions and their connection with moral actions. In this commentary, we discuss this acco...
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Establishing the accuracy of self-diagnosis in psychiatry Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Sam Fellowes
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 ...
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The complexities of linguistic discrimination Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Anna Drożdżowicz, Yael Peled
Linguistic discrimination is a complex phenomenon. How should it be investigated? Evidential pool is of key importance. In this paper, we present specific conceptual and methodological challenges i...
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The ever-expanding predictive mind Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sofiia Rappe
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Perceiving meaning and the argument from evidence-insensitivity Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Yavuz Recep Başoğlu
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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Self-disorders in schizophrenia as disorders of transparency: an exploratory account Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jasper Feyaerts, Barnaby Nelson, Louis Sass
Understanding alterations of selfhood (termed self-disorders or self-disturbances) that are considered typical of the schizophrenia-spectrum is a central focus of phenomenological research. The cur...
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Are delusions adaptive? An empirical and philosophical study on delusions in OCD Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Eugenia Lancellotta
Delusions are usually depicted in one of two contrasting ways. They are either characterized as harmful and dysfunctional beliefs or as fostering engagement with the environment and sometimes even ...
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Romantic affordances: The seductive realm of the possible Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Aaron Ben-Ze’ev
In this article, James Gibson’s influential notion of “perceptual affordances” is applied to the romantic realm. The core idea of Gibson’s view rests on the possible, meaningful actions that the pe...
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Précis of perpetrator disgust: the moral limits of gut feelings Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Joint attention, relationalism, and individuation Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Stefano Vincini
One of the main positions in the contemporary debate on joint attention is John Campbell’s relationalist account. This account has been welcomed as extremely promising in some strands of philosophy...
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Disclosing the mechanism of sentence processing Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Huan Liu, Jinming Zhou
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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I see actions. Affordances and the expressive role of perceptual judgments Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 David Sanchez
Originally formulated as a theory of perception, ecological psychology has shown in recent decades an increasing interest in language. However, a comprehensive approach to language by ecological ps...
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Religion as belief, a realist theory: a commentary on Religion as Make-Believe, A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Joseph Sommer
Van Leeuwen’s Religion as Make-Believe, A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity argues that religious and political beliefs are fundamentally different from mundane, factual beliefs and...
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Mechanisms of skillful interaction: sensorimotor enactivism & mechanistic explanation Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jonny Lee, Becky Millar
The mechanistic model depicts scientific explanations as involving the discovery of multi-level, organized components that constitute a target phenomenon. Meanwhile, sensorimotor enactivism purport...
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The complexity of brain disorders and the worldliness of mental disorders Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Matthew R. Broome
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2024)
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Psychotherapy of the oppressed: the education of Paulo Freire in dialogue with phenomenology Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Valter L. Piedade, Guilherme Messas
The current paradigm of mental health has fallen short in its promises to deliver better care and quality of life for those who lives with mental illness. Recent works have expressed the need for m...
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Balancing the evidential scales for the mental unconscious Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Aliya R. Dewey
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Why predictive processing matters Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Christian Michel
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Illusions in speech sound and voice perception Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Anna Drożdżowicz
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....
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Brain disorders reconsidered – a response to commentaries Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Anneli Jefferson
In this paper, I respond to commentaries on my book “Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?”. The topics I discuss are: accounts of function and dysfunction, constraints on the relationship between ...
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What is the folk concept of discrimination? Discriminators and comparators Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Søren Serritzlew, Lasse Laustsen, Simone Sommer Degn, Andreas Albertsen
According to many theorists, discrimination either requires a better treated comparator or can occur only if the discriminator belongs to a socially salient group different from that of the discrim...
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Two problems with neodualism of soul and body Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Cristián Hernández Maturana
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...
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Allegedly impossible experiences Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Sofia Jeppsson
In this paper, I will argue for two interrelated theses. First, if we take phenomenological psychopathology seriously, and want to understand what it is like to undergo various psychopathological e...
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Reappraisal as a means to self-transcendence: Aquinas’s model of emotion regulation informs the extended process model Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Catherine A. Marple, Anne Jeffrey, Sarah A. Schnitker
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 ...
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(Almost) everything you’ve always wanted to know about moral reasoning and decision making Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Anneli Jefferson
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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CORRECTION Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-21
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Group identification, joint attention, and preferences: a cluster of minimal pre-conditions for joint actions Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Alessandro Salice
An important thesis discussed in the literature on shared agency is that group identification motivates pre-school children to act together. This paper aims at further illuminating this thesis by c...
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Methods and models for investigating anomalous experiences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Pavan S. Brar, Elizabeth Pienkos, Alexander Porto, Helen J. Wood, Deepak Sarpal, Melissa A. Kalarchian, James B. Schreiber, Alexander Kranjec
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...
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An overview on trust and trustworthiness: individual and institutional dimensions Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Elisabetta Lalumera
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2024)
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The dynamics of interpersonal trust: Implications for care at times of psychological crisis Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Michael Larkin, Zoë Boden-Stuart
“Trust” can describe many different positive features of our social relationships with others. In this exploratory paper, we reflect on some of the ways in which people orient themselves toward oth...
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Beliefs, values and emotions: An interactive approach to distrust in science Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Katherine Furman
Previous philosophical work on distrust in science has argued that understanding public distrust in science and scientific interventions requires that we pay careful attention not only to epistemic...
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Relational moral philosophy needs relational moral psychology Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Rachel Calcott, Brian D. Earp
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Change in attitudes and beliefs about implicit bias education: a demonstration among members of a police department Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Joseph A. Vitriol, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Robert Lowe
Law enforcement organizations invest in ongoing education of employees on various topics concerning diversity, equity and accountability. Such education is designed to ensure the highest levels of ...
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Religious delusion or religious belief? Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Richard Gipps, Simon Clarke
How shall we distinguish religious delusion from sane religious belief? Making this determination is not usually found to be difficult in clinical practice – but what shall be our theoretical ratio...
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Moral dumbfounding and imaginative resistance Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Adam Green
Moral dumbfounding and imaginative resistance have both spawned important literatures that intersect moral psychology. Moral dumbfounding, rooted in Jonathan Haidt’s empirical work, has been taken ...
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Intuitive credit attribution and the priority rule Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Mia Karabegovic, Tristin Blatt, Pascal Boyer, Hugo Mercier
When a good idea is discovered, who gets credit for it? This is an important question in science, the arts, law, and everyday life. We suggest that people have intuitions about credit ownership tha...
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Causal complexity and psychological measurement Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Markus Ilkka Eronen
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...
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What is the attitude of desire? Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Kael McCormack
I defend a view of the attitude of desire against a close rival. Both views are versions of “the guise of the good” thesis. The guise of the good says that a desire for P involves P appearing good ...
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Educated folk intuitions about free will and determinism: a case study in experimental public philosophy Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Thibaut Giraud, Florian Cova
Experimental philosophers have been investigating folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility, wondering whether our intuitive understanding of free will and moral responsibility make ...
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Impact of philosophical workshops on the prison population: a qualitative and quantitative evaluation Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 José Barrientos-Rastrojo, Javier Saavedra-Macías, Edson Renato Nardi
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...
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On the rationality of thought-insertion judgments Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Víctor M. Verdejo
Subjects experiencing thought insertion disown thoughts they are introspectively aware of. According to what I call “the rationality hypothesis”, thought-insertion reports are not merely intelligib...
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Encoding without perceiving: Can memories be implanted? Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Jonathan Najenson
The origin of memories is thought to be found in sensory perception. This conception is central to how the memory sciences characterize encoding. This paper considers how novel memory traces can be...
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The unity and plurality of sharing Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Dan Zahavi
Many accounts of collective intentionality target rather sophisticated types of cooperative activities, i.e., activities with complex goals that require prior planning and various coordinating and ...
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The death of the self in posttraumatic experience Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Jake Dorothy, Emily Hughes
Survivors of trauma commonly report feeling as though a part of themselves has died. This article provides a theoretical interpretation of this phenomenon, drawing on Waldenfels' notion of the spli...
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How the case against empathy overreaches Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Riana J. Betzler
Many people think of empathy as a powerful force for good within society and as a crucial component of moral cognition. Recently, prominent theorists in psychology and philosophy have challenged th...
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Does harm or disrespect make discrimination wrong? An experimental approach Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Andreas Albertsen, Bjørn G. Hallsson, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Viki M. L. Pedersen
While standard forms of discrimination are widely considered morally wrong, philosophers disagree about what makes them so. Two accounts have risen to prominence in this debate: One stressing how w...
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Why do people seem to be more utilitarian in VR than in questionnaires? Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Bartosz Maćkiewicz, Jan Wodowski, Joanna Andrusiewicz
Several experimental studies on moral judgment and moral decision-making show that in virtual reality people tend to make more “characteristically utilitarian” decisions than when responding to sta...
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Testing thrasymachus’ hypothesis: the psychological processes behind power justification Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Francesco Rigoli
Research on distributive justice has shown that people’s judgments on how to distribute resources justly are shaped by various criteria including equity, need, equality, and prior ownership. Yet, a...
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Correlative externalism about colour phenomenology Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Adam Balmer
Externalism about colour phenomenology claims that the phenomenal character of colour experiences is determined by mind-independent properties of perceptual objects. The structural mismatch argumen...
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Rational intuitions: How reason underlies deontological moral judgments Philosophical Psychology (IF 1.573) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Arjan S. Heir
Joshua Greene’s dual process account contends that deontological moral judgments are the result of intuitions that are automatic, emotional and arational. Deontological intuitions cannot be trusted...