Imagine Genghis Khan, Aretha Franklin, and the Cleveland Cavaliers performing an opera
on Maui. This silly sentence makes a serious point: As humans, we can flexibly generate …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

Hans-Christian Orsted introduced the term" thought experiment" to philosophy in 1811,
although it did not get much philosophical attention until the 1980s. Thought experiments …

To believe something, as contemporary analytic philosophers generally use the term
“belief,” is to take it to be the case or regard it as true. In this sense, many of our beliefs are …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

I argue that psychology and epistemology should posit distinct cognitive attitudes of religious
credence and factual belief, which have different etiologies and different cognitive and …

An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much
read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations. By …

One way to delineate the concept of epistemically rational belief is to locate it in relation to
other core concepts of epistemology, especially those of knowledge and justified belief …

Perceptual systems respond to proximal stimuli by forming mental representations of distal
stimuli. A central goal for the philosophy of perception is to characterize the representations …