People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or
“what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes …

Humans often represent and reason about unrealized possible actions–the vast infinity of
things that were not (or have not yet been) chosen. This capacity is central to the most …

Recent studies in cognitive development suggest that preschoolers may not be able to
represent alternative possibilities, and therefore may lack modal concepts such as possible …

In this paper, I go back to Bas van Fraassen's seminal discussion of perspectivity in the
context of scientific representation as a springboard for distinguishing between two possible …

Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing
representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the …

Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential
to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes …

Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do
what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity …

We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and
languages, money and markets. These are all social objects-they are made, at least in part …

Can normative words like" good,"" ought," and" reason" be defined in entirely non-normative
terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory …

Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness,
rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and …