My paper "Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning" is forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy. I argue that defeasible reasons aren't just premises in *normally* good deductive reasoning, despite what some very smart people think. philpapers.org/rec/DEARIF
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August 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
My paper "Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning" is forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy. I argue that defeasible reasons aren't just premises in *normally* good deductive reasoning, despite what some very smart people think. philpapers.org/rec/DEARIF
Check out my chapter with Ron Mallon on implicit attitudes in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief, edited by Neil Van Leeuwen and @tanialombrozo.bsky.social! It's an accessible (and opinionated) primer to recent philosophical work on implicit attitudes. philpapers.org/rec/DEAIBA
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July 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Check out my chapter with Ron Mallon on implicit attitudes in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief, edited by Neil Van Leeuwen and @tanialombrozo.bsky.social! It's an accessible (and opinionated) primer to recent philosophical work on implicit attitudes. philpapers.org/rec/DEAIBA
My paper 'Desire, decoupling, and factive mentalizing' is forthcoming at Mind and Language! Attributing desire requires the complicated stuff for attributing belief, but empirical work suggests it's easier to do. What gives? Check out more here: philpapers.org/rec/DEADDA-5
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July 30, 2026 at 5:51 PM
My paper 'Desire, decoupling, and factive mentalizing' is forthcoming at Mind and Language! Attributing desire requires the complicated stuff for attributing belief, but empirical work suggests it's easier to do. What gives? Check out more here: philpapers.org/rec/DEADDA-5
I think about this article (and it's context) more than is healthy www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/t...
The Emails of Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer (Published 2016)
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June 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I think about this article (and it's context) more than is healthy www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/t...
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SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that mentalizing is fast, easy, and early developing, while other research indicates that it is slow, hard, and late developing. The Factive Mentalizing View (Philips & Norby 2019; Philips et al.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
the feeling when you find a 200 view preprint on arxiv that suddenly gives your paper a sheen of empirical adequacy
May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
the feeling when you find a 200 view preprint on arxiv that suddenly gives your paper a sheen of empirical adequacy
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This is actually why I don’t really get it when people are negatively polarized by people being annoying. Literally everyone is annoying. It’s the one truly universal political value
Initially I hated centrists as I felt (still do!) that the UK Cult of Sensibles has enshrined a lot of truly bad ideas as requirements of being taken seriously in politics, to general ill effect. But as I spent more time Discoursing I realised the online left are also incredibly annoying and inane.
April 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is actually why I don’t really get it when people are negatively polarized by people being annoying. Literally everyone is annoying. It’s the one truly universal political value
