Predictive processing framework (PP) has found wide applications in cognitive science and
philosophy. It is an attractive candidate for a unified account of the mind in which perception …

Concept contextualism is the view that the information associated with a concept is
dependent on the context in which it is tokened. This view is gaining support in recent years …

This paper explains a fallacy that often arises in theorizing about human minds. I call it the
Factual Belief Fallacy. The Fallacy, roughly, involves drawing conclusions about human …

Predictive processing, an increasingly popular paradigm in cognitive sciences, has focused
primarily on giving accounts of perception, motor control and a host of psychological …

It has recently been suggested that delusions be conceived of as symptoms on the harmful
dysfunction account of disorder: delusions sometimes arise from dysfunction, but can also …

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a method of prenatal screening that became
available in approximately 2011. It uses fetal DNA in the maternal bloodstream to screen for …

I propose that the notions of personhood and personal identity are most accurately
understood as merely negative hypotheses in the brains of us humans. Understanding the …

This paper surrounds the discussion of Szasz's ideas regarding mental disorders from his
publication 'The Myth of Mental Illness'. Not only are these ideas relevant today due to the …