He/Him. @fct_pt post-doc @ULisboa_ | past: @UniofOxford | phil mind & cog sci | belief, evidence-resistance, delusional cognition | Dog dad to Alki 🐕🦺
Lisbon, Portugal
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Rest in peace Steve Albini.
We'll always regret not accepting your job application back in 2003!
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On the blog today, @evan_westra distinguishes between two types of beliefs; epistemic beliefs and symbolic beliefs. Each describe different mental states and have different functions.
buff.ly/3uBwCso
ALT Evan Westra
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It's finally out! Our large-scaled replication attempt of the induced compliance paradigm in the study of cognitive dissonance: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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I note also a recent paper by @philcorlett and @fedebng. They explore how far the standard model can go in meeting challenges to the PC account – no time to compare and contrast here but worth reading (10/10)
teapaw.org/fedebng/status/1742851…
Why are delusions adopted rather than something more plausible, or rather than nothing at all? Where do they come from?
I address these questions in a new paper with @PhilCorlett1, just out in @AustralJPhilos. You can check it out below (open access):
doi.org/10.1080/00048402.202…
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Not sure if anyone is out there on twitter now, but, in case: New paper with @noham_wolpe, @jessharding1302, Christoph Teufel, @double_0_stefan and Victor Navarro
thelancet.com/journals/lanps…
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A fascinating essay by a professional philosopher about his experience of schizophrenia.
“There have been near-collapses, but I have managed to keep a job for 30 years. I have not, until recently, been open about my diagnosis…”
academic.oup.com/schizophren…
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Ever wonder what principled distinction can be drawn between religious delusion and religious belief? We manage it well in practice, but it can be hard to achieve reflective clarity on it. ... Here's my, & Simon Clarke's, own new suggestion - Open Access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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New paper in @WIREs_Reviews Cognitive Sciences with my fellas @MiguelNundePGor & @VictorDezCastro
What are delusions? Examining the typology problem
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
@arq_deldelirio @uvalpochile @InvestigandoUV @ComplejosISCV @SocialesUV
Federico Bongiorno retweeted
I think people are mostly into astrology because they find it fun to think and talk about, and because the category of “belief” involved is not aimed at truth or regulated much by evidence.
The number of people who believe in astrology is like a bellwether for how scientifically- and critically-minded your society is.
So it's a bit grim that it seems to be so trendy again. What explains its new popularity? I consider some reasons here: inews.co.uk/news/why-saturn-…
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In my first tweet ever, I'd like to share a new paper of mine that just appeared in Mind & Language: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…. The paper is called "The rational role of the perceptual sense of reality". Open access preprint: psyarxiv.com/f9x34/
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🚨New paper🚨 out in @JAMAPsych on cognitive science and psychiatry! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @NicolasPorot and I argue that in cases of monothematic delusions, the belief forming, storing and sustaining mechanisms don't seem to be functioning any differently than in neurotypicals
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Join us for talk by Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning on "Mistaken beliefs, gullibility, and atrocities” 11am EDT this Friday (July 29)! This is the culmination of an exceptional series of talks on the nature of belief, many recorded. For links to talks visit: cognition.princeton.edu/beli…
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When you read the psych literature, you get the impression that believing in conspiracies is irrational/pathological. But real conspiracies do exist, and so _some_ degree of conspiratorial thinking is reasonable. You can be too prone to think this way--but also too low.
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I'm happy to contribute to work on collective irrationalities! This is part of my series on beliefs as signals. Here, I argue that recklessness is a feature, not a bug, of some social beliefs. This is because the danger functions as a handicap (cost) to ensure honest signaling.
Latest articles: When are dangerous #beliefs valuable? The case of #COVID19 skepticism discussed by Eric Funkhouser (@RealFunkhouser) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @Routledge_Phil @Routledgepsych @tandfonline
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What is some of the empirical evidence for and against the idea that attention sharpens the precision of prediction errors? @PeterKokNeuro @HeleenASlagter @legrandni
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We are holding a workshop on Mind, Mental Health, and Epistemic Injustice here in Nottingham on the 20th July! For details + registration see here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-ment… **We have bursaries to cover travel/hotel of graduate students and underemployed philosophers!** Please RT!
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My secret agent at the Joint Session says my book is on display! Yay 😀 And remember: you are not irrational, you are epistemically innocent! Thanks @fedebng ❤️
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Conspiracy theorists are often portrayed as people who deliberate *too much* (in a biased way). In this review, @GordPennycook and I look at research on intuition, deliberation, and conspiracy beliefs and find that believers mostly deliberate *too little*
authors.elsevier.com/c/1fLAz…
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Philosophy twitter...Does anyone have a good sense of which top 'generalist' journals are most willing to accept empirically-informed work in philosophy of mind/ consciousness science?
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How come humans can think about what we should and shouldn't do? In this new paper, I offer a cultural evolutionary framework for norm psychology psyarxiv.com/t5ew7 🧵
