Philosophical Explorations

• Self-deception as normative violation
  Philosophical Explorations30 April 2025By Martina Orlandi Artificial Intelligence Program, Trent University Durham, Oshawa, CanadaMartina Orlandi is Assistant Professor in the Artificial Intelligence Program at Trent University Durham, Canada. She works mainly in philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and moral psychology.
• Inner speech: from self-knowledge to the second-person
  Philosophical Explorations25 April 2025By Shivam Patel Philosophy Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USAShivam Patel is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Florida State University. He works on issues in inner speech, imagination, perception, and psychiatry.
• Thomas Reid’s prescient vision of dual process theory
  Philosophical Explorations10 April 2025By Rauf Oran Department of Philosophy, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People’s Republic of ChinaRauf Oran obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy from Xiamen University. His primary focus is social epistemology. Additionally, he has particular interests in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and Ancient Chinese philosophy.
• Self-induced moral incapacity, collective responsibility, and attributability
  Philosophical Explorations13 March 2025By Felix Lambrecht Department of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, GermanyFelix Lambrecht received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 2024. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His work has appeared in journals including Philosophical Quarterly, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Social Philosophy, and American Philosophical Quarterly.
• The creativity of emotions
  Philosophical Explorations06 March 2025By Julien Deonna Fabrice Teroni Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandJulien Deonna is Professor of philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at CISA, the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. He works in the philosophy of mind and moral psychology.Fabrice Teroni is Professor of philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at CISA, the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. He works in the philosophy of mind and epistemology.
• Action just is knowledge
  Philosophical Explorations27 February 2025By Chi-keung Chan Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanChi-keung Chan 陳志強 is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at National Taiwan University, specializing in Chinese philosophy, particularly Song-Ming Neo-Confucian ethics, comparative philosophy, and moral psychology. He has held visiting positions at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, MIT, and Boston University. His recent work has been published in leading journals such as Dao and Philosophy East and West.
• Narrative negotiation of personal identity
  Philosophical Explorations20 February 2025By Maria Cristina Contrino Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UKMaria Cristina Contrino (she/her) graduated in Philosophy at the University of Trieste with a thesis on Karl Löwith; later she pursued an MPhil at King’s College London in Ancient Philosophy with a thesis on Aristotle and the Skeptics; afterwards she obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy at ARU, Cambridge, with a thesis on the role of Narratives and Practical Identity. She is particularly interested in Philosophy of Mind, but also in Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and philosophical aspects of Ancient Greek Epic. She is currently expanding her research on the role of narratives and personal Identity to the role of narratives of the past, inaccuracy, errors and repetitions.
• Journey planning: a cartography of practical reasoning
  Philosophical Explorations17 February 2025By Mariela Aguilera Institute of Humanities, CONICET, Córdoba, ArgentinaMariela Aguilera is an Associate Researcher at CONICET and an Associate Professor at the FFyH, UNC (Córdoba, Argentina). She works in the fields of philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of mind, and focuses specifically on the non-linguistic forms of thinking, such as inferences with maps and images and animals’ reasoning.
• Why are people often rational? Saving the causal theory of action
  Philosophical Explorations30 December 2024By Mihnea Capraru HPRS, Nazarbayev University, Astana, KazakhstanMihnea Capraru is a philosopher at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. He works inter alia in the philosophy of language, of mind, and of biology.
• ‘It was the illness talking’: self-illness ambiguity and metaphors’ functions in mental health narrative
  Philosophical Explorations07 December 2024By Francesca Ervas Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, ItalyFrancesca Ervas Prof. Dr. phil. Since 2018: Associate Professor in philosophy of language, University of Cagliari. PhD at the University of Rome 3, Italy; Postdoc at the Dept. of Linguistics, UCL, London and Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, Paris. Fellow at the NIAS in 2019/2020, Amsterdam.Areas of specialization: philosophy of language, pragmatics, experimental philosophy, argumentation.Areas of competence: epistemology, philosophy of mind, rhetorics.
• Perceptual metaphysics: the case for composites
  Philosophical Explorations28 October 2024By Ivan V. Ivanov Arthur Schipper a Department of Philosophy, School of Political Science and Law, Capital Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of Chinab Philosophy Section, Department of Cognitive Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab EmiratesIvan V. Ivanov is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. He studies philosophy of mind and metaphysics, especially the metaphysics of perception, consciousness and intentionality.Arthur Schipper is Assistant Professor in Philosophy in the Department of Cognitive Sciences, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University. He writes mainly on the logic and metaphysics of language and mind, especially aboutness, truthmaking, and action, and their methodology. Recent publications include ‘An Abductive Defence of Truthmaker Realism’ (Philosophy, forthcoming), ‘Acting on Reasons: Synchronic Executive Control’ (European Journal of Philosophy, 2024), and ‘Henry Habberley Price’ with Paul Snowdon (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2023).
• Blame: What is it good for?
  Philosophical Explorations26 September 2024By Kristoffer Moody Makan Nojoumian School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKKristoffer Moody is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh specializing in philosophy of mind and action. He writes on the intersection of research in psychology and the philosophy of agency and moral responsibility.Makan Nojoumian is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in distributive ethics, population ethics, and decision theory.
• The norm of reasoning
  Philosophical Explorations16 September 2024By Frank Hofmann Department of Humanities, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, LuxembourgFrank Hofmann Prof. Dr. phil. Since 2011: Professor for systematic philosophy, University of Luxembourg. PhD and habilitation at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Areas of specialization: epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of normativity, freedom of the will. Areas of competence: ethics, meta-ethics, action theory, philosophy of language, Descartes, Aristotle.
• See what I didn’t do there?
  Philosophical Explorations14 August 2024By William Hornett Faculty of Philosophy, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomWilliam Hornett is a philosopher of mind working at the University of Cambridge. He has published on the nature of habit, action, and perception.
• Mental illness, exemption & moral exclusion: the role of interpretative generosity
  Philosophical Explorations28 June 2024By Anna Hartford Dan J. Stein Anna Hartford is a writer and researcher based in South Africa. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town.Dan J. Stein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, and Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders. His most recent book is Problems of Living: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Cognitive–Affective Science.
• Let’s not get ahead of ourselves: we have no idea if moral reasoning causes moral progress
  Philosophical Explorations27 June 2024By Paul Rehren Charlie Blunden Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The NetherlandsPaul Rehren is a PhD student at Utrecht University. His research focuses on moral psychology and meta-philosophy.Charlie Blunden is a PhD student at Utrecht University. His research focuses on moral change, and empirically-informed moral and political philosophy.
• Life and meaning
  Philosophical Explorations31 May 2024By Edward Hinchman Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USAEdward Hinchman is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He works on interpersonal reason-giving through testimony, advice, promising, and other propositional assurances, and on the intrapersonal normativity of judgment and intention.
• Bringing transparency to the de se debates
  Philosophical Explorations31 May 2024By Ekain Garmendia Mujika ILCLI – Department of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV), Donostia, SpainEkain Garmendia Mujika is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) in Donostia-San Sebastian. He is also a member of the ILCLI Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Information, and the Language and Thought (LAT) research group. He mainly works on the Philosophies of Mind and Language, on issues related to the individuation of mental content.
• Learning to walk and talk (again): what developmental psychology can teach us about online intersubjectivity
  Philosophical Explorations23 May 2024By Lucy OslerDavid Ekdahla School of English, Philosophy and Communication, Cardiff University, Wales, UKb Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DenmarkLucy Osler is a lecturer in Philosophy in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. Her research travels across phenomenology, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of emotions, with a particular focus on online sociality.David Ekdahl is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research focuses on extreme cases of virtual embodiment, the bodily significance of online spaces for vulnerable groups, as well as on methodological questions of applied phenomenology and neurodiversity.
• ‘Empathy and the boundaries of interpersonal understanding’ – introduction
  Philosophical Explorations14 May 2024By Katharina Anna SodomaElizabeth VenthamChristiana Wernera Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie & Religionswissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germanyb University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austriac Institute for Philosophy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, GermanyKatharina Anna Sodoma is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on topics at the intersection of ethics and political philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.Elizabeth Ventham is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working at The University of Salzburg. Before this, she worked on empathy at The University of Liverpool. Her other philosophical interests include desire and practical reasoning.Christiana Werner is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research focuses on empathy, imagination and understanding in the context of philosophy of mind, aesthetics and epistemology.

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