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Philosophical Psychology

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Taylor & Francis journal publishing research at the intersection of #philosophy & #psychology. Also on Fediscience and Bluesky.

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New issue out! Follow our thread 🧵 to discover all the exciting papers published in #vol39issue8. Starting with Ethan Landes on the importance of label choice in #language design doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… open access
Is it a tastytaste or a greedgrab? The importance of label choice in language design

Is it a tastytaste or a greedgrab? The importance of label choice in language design

Everyone who has come up with a new idea or concept faces the same problem: they need to call it something. This choice is simultaneously arbitrary and important. The new idea could have any name, ...

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Emily A. Willoughby et al. investigate genetic influences on agentic #beliefs doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… open access #vol39issue8
The freedom to believe in free will: evidence from an adoption study against the first law of...

The freedom to believe in free will: evidence from an adoption study against the first law of...

Philosophers and psychologists alike have long debated the etiology of beliefs about human agency. Recently, empirical investigations have shown that lay beliefs about free will and determinism rep...

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Today is World Mental Health Day #WMHD2026 so let us share two among our most read papers in the last year that address issues in the #philosophy of mental health!
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Jasmine Wanjiru Onstad proposes enactive #psychiatry as a paradigm for understanding mental distress, guiding psychotherapy, and offering a pluralistic, relational, and participatory model. Open access: doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #WMHD2026
Hermeneutical injustice in CBT: towards an enactivist paradigm in psychiatric practice

Hermeneutical injustice in CBT: towards an enactivist paradigm in psychiatric practice

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is widely presented as an empirically grounded, value-neutral “gold standard” of psychotherapy. This paper challenges that assumption by arguing that CBT is under...

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Four exciting book reviews in issue 7: Mike Rifino reviews "A philosophy of shame: A revolutionary emotion", by Frédéric Gros. doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #newbooks 1/4
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Valeria Bizzari reviews "Periagoge. Theory of singularity and philosophy as an exercise of transformation", by G. Cusinato doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #newbooks 2/4
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New issue, new thread! Adam Toon and Tamás Demeter present "As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental #Fictionalism", with sixteen papers (nine are open or free access). Follow the thread to learn more! tandfonline.com/journals/cph…
As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental Fictionalism

As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental Fictionalism

Explore the article collection: As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental Fictionalism. Published in Philosophical Psychology.

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Editors discuss the history of mental #fictionalism & introduce the other contributions: doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… free access "The present collection demonstrates the philosophical fertility of the fictionalist framework & the breadth of the questions to which it gives rise."
As if we had minds: the prospects of mental fictionalism

As if we had minds: the prospects of mental fictionalism

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 7, 2026)

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New issue, new Editor's Choice! From the new special issue on mental #fictionalism, guest editors Adam Toon & Tamás Demeter have selected Bruno Mölder's paper, "Can mental fictionalism avoid cognitive collapse?" doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… It will be free access for three months. 1/2
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Guest editors: "The paper provides a lucid discussion of one of the most important challenges facing mental fictionalism—the problem of cognitive collapse—and offers an insightful critique of existing attempts to solve the problem." Special issue here: tandfonline.com/journals/cph… 2/2
As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental Fictionalism

As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental Fictionalism

Explore the article collection: As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental Fictionalism. Published in Philosophical Psychology.

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Latest papers: Héctor Omar Ruiz Rivera argues the extended cognition hypothesis does not offer an advantage over non-extended views regarding ethical and legal judgments concerning personal assault in this #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
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Editor’s Choice: Nikolas Fascendini et al.’s article on delusional experiences in schizophrenia and the sacred will be free to read for three months. doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… 1/2
Primary delusional experiences in schizophrenia and the sacred: a qualitative study

Primary delusional experiences in schizophrenia and the sacred: a qualitative study

Psychopathology has highlighted the pivotal role of revelation in schizophrenic primary delusions. However, empirical studies on the topic remain limited. Therefore, this research aimed to explore ...

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Editor Lisa Bortolotti said: “We don’t often find such a detailed qualitative work on the forms of subjectivity undepinning delusions & we value the authors’ interesting comparison between the experiential structure of delusional experiences and the experience of the sacred.” 2/2
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Excited to announce that for each new issue of the journal a paper will be made free access for three months at the discretion of the Editor! Editor’s Choice will start from volume 39 issue 6… watch this space!
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In #vol39issue6 Anya Plutynski & Claire Pouncey ask what personality can teach us about #mentalhealth doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
What personality can teach us about mental health

What personality can teach us about mental health

While there have been forty years of active debate among philosophers of psychiatry about how to define mental disorder, there has been relatively little discussion of mental health. This is starti...

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In an open access article, Chandra Sripada explores the valuationist model of human agent architecture doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #values #agency
The valuationist model of human agent architecture

The valuationist model of human agent architecture

In computational cognitive science, a valuationist picture of human agent architecture has become widespread. At the heart of valuationism is a simple and sweeping claim: Every time an agent acts, ...

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In #vol39issue5 we have a rich special issue on Causation in Memory, guest-edited by Nikola Andonovski, Sarah Robins & Kirk Michaelian. Follow this thread to know more! The editorial summarises recent debates and introduces contributions doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #openaccess 1/12
Causation in memory

Causation in memory

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 5, 2026)

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Sara Aronowitz draws a parallel with the use of legacy data in science, and shows how one kind of #memory success is only explicable if we think of memories as evidential (mental) objects doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #vol39issue5 2/12
Memories as data: The case of radical reuse

Memories as data: The case of radical reuse

Evidence, in ordinary English, denotes a kind of object: something you could put in a box, or at least on a hard-drive. But recent epistemologists prefer to think of evidence as part of a thinker’s...

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Latest papers: Héctor Omar Ruiz Rivera argues that the extended cognition hypothesis does not offer an advantage over non-extended views regarding ethical and legal judgements concerning personal assault in this #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
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Latest papers: Ross Pain develops a methodological distinction between two approaches to the study of the mind; the philosophy-first view and the science-first view in this #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
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Latest papers: Mengting Zhang extracts a definition of cognitive effort from active inference, as the information cost of deviating from habitual to goal-directed mental actions in this #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
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A fantastic special issue on Mystical #Entropy features in our #vol39issue5! Follow this thread to know more. Let's start with an editorial by Michiel van Elk, with an overview of the contents doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #openaccess #philsky #philpsy 1/9
Understanding mystical experiences through the lens of entropy: introduction to the special issue...

Understanding mystical experiences through the lens of entropy: introduction to the special issue...

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 5, 2026)

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Another editorial by Aidan Lyon sheds light on the project that initially gave rise to the special issue and offers an introduction to the psychedelic-kundalini thesis doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #openaccess #vol39issue5 #philsky #philpsy 2/9
Mystical entropy: an introduction to the psychedelic-kundalini thesis and the PEACE framework for...

Mystical entropy: an introduction to the psychedelic-kundalini thesis and the PEACE framework for...

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 5, 2026)

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Wonderful news at Philosophical Psychology! To address the steep increase in submissions and further extend the range of specialism in our editorial team we are delighted to welcome Dr Lucy Osler as a new Associate Editor! Find out more about Lucy: lucyosler.com
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Trending! "Canonic counterpoint as a philosophical practice: #mind, #meaning, and #metaphysics in Renaissance and Baroque musical composition" by Hane Maung. Open Access! doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #philosophy
Canonic counterpoint as a philosophical practice: mind, meaning, and metaphysics in Renaissance and...

Canonic counterpoint as a philosophical practice: mind, meaning, and metaphysics in Renaissance and...

In an essay entitled “Schopenhauer’s Flute and Descartes’s Lute” (2024), Helen De Cruz asks: “what can musical practice tell us about philosophy?” The present paper offers an answer to this questio...

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Latest papers: Linda Barclay, Milan Andrejević & Jakob Hohwy seek to advance the debate on the meaning and value of dignity by integrating philosophical theory with findings from empirical studies in this #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
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Most read in the last three years! "Chatbot-fictionalism and empathetic AI: Should we worry about AI when AI worries about us?" by Stacie Friend and Kris Goffin. Open access! doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202… #AI #chatbots
Chatbot-fictionalism and empathetic AI: Should we worry about AI when AI worries about us?

Chatbot-fictionalism and empathetic AI: Should we worry about AI when AI worries about us?

We focus on recent proposals to interpret interactions with empathetic AI systems as games of make-believe, analogous to our engagement with fictions. Chatbots are increasingly designed to detect a...

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Latest papers: Sabrina B. Little develops and evaluates the class of emergent virtues in this #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
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Latest papers: Hane Htut Maung offers an answer to the question “what can musical practice tell us about philosophy?” posed by Helen Dr Cruz in her essay Schopenhauer’s Flute and Descartes’s Lute” in this #openaccess article doi.org/10.1080/09515089.202…
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