The concept of bias is pervasive in both popular discourse and empirical theorizing within
philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This widespread application …

What is a bias? Standard philosophical views of both implicit and explicit bias focus this
question on the representations one harbours, for example, stereotypes or implicit attitudes …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

What is the mental representation that is responsible for implicit bias? What is this
representation that mediates between the trigger and the biased behavior? My claim is that …

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

ABSTRACT I argue for the existence of imaginative beliefs: mental states that are
imaginative in format and doxastic in attitude. I advance two arguments for this thesis. First …

Imagination and belief are obviously different. Imagining that you have won the lottery is not
quite the same as believing that you have won. But what is the difference? According to a …

ABSTRACT A number of studies have investigated how immersion in a virtual reality
environment can affect participants' implicit biases. These studies presume associationism …

Philosophers are divided over whether implicit biases are beliefs. Critics of the belief model
of implicit bias argue that empirical data show that implicit biases are habitual but unstable …

Hume famously noted that nothing is more free than human imagination. On his view,
imagination has “unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating, and dividing” the …