Biased by our imaginings

E Sullivan‐Bissett - Mind & Language, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
I propose a new model of implicit bias, according to which implicit biases are constituted by
unconscious imaginings. I argue that my model accommodates characteristic features of …

[图书][B] Self-deception

E Funkhouser - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Self-deception poses longstanding and fascinating paradoxes. Philosophers have
questioned whether, and how, self-deception is even possible; evolutionary theorists have …

Do we really need a knowledge-based decision theory?

D Fassio, J Gao - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
The paper investigates what type of motivation can be given for adopting a knowledge-
based decision theory (hereafter, KBDT). KBDT seems to have several advantages over …

Explaining doxastic transparency: aim, norm, or function?

E Sullivan-Bissett - Synthese, 2018 - Springer
I argue that explanations of doxastic transparency which go via an appeal to an aim or norm
of belief are problematic. I offer a new explanation which appeals to a biological function of …

Moral and Epistemic Error Theory

J Olson, C McHugh, J Way, D Whiting - Metaepistemology, 2018 - books.google.com
According to moral error theory of the kind I will be concerned with in this chapter, moral
facts are metaphysically queer. A key premise in the argument to the effect that moral facts …

Debunking, Theoretical Indispensability, and Irreducible Epistemic Rationality

C Kyriacou - Evolutionary debunking arguments, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
On this account, the news about the mad neuroscientist undermines Jack's entitlement to
rely on his streak-to-proton disposition by way of revealing that it could only be a …

The aim of belief and the aim of science

A Bird - Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History …, 2019 - JSTOR
I argue that the aim of belief and the aim of science are both knowledge. The'aim of belief'is
to be identified with the product of a properly functioning cognitive system. Science is an …

Virtually imagining our biases

E Sullivan-Bissett - Philosophical Psychology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A number of studies have investigated how immersion in a virtual reality
environment can affect participants' implicit biases. These studies presume associationism …

The transparent failure of norms to keep up standards of belief

E Sullivan-Bissett, P Noordhof - Philosophical Studies, 2020 - Springer
We argue that the most plausible characterisation of the norm of truth—it is permissible to
believe that p if and only if p is true—is unable to explain Transparency in doxastic …

Why is warrant normative?

PJ Graham - Philosophical Issues, 2019 - search.ebscohost.com
The article discussed the concept of Alvin Plantinga, an American analytic philosopher who
works primarily in the fields of philosophy of epistemolog and focuses on warrant normative …