Víctor Fernández Castro & Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo explore the intersection between affective fictionalism and the neurodiversity movement doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Spencer Knafelc suggests that therapists and patients adopt ways of thinking and speaking that are amenable to a fictionalist interpretation. doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Stacie Friend & Kris Goffin argue that although chatbot-fictionalism offers insights into human-AI interaction, it does not resolve the ethical concerns. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Marco Facchin maintains that the real existence of extended propositional attitudes is not just compatible with Toon’s fictionalism, but also able to bolster its explanatory power doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Michael D. Kirchhoff argues that discourse about mental representation fails to be genuinely explanatory. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Gavin Robert Foster provides an overview of the evidence from comparative and developmental psychology that is inconsistent with mental fictionalism. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Uku Tooming examines the prospects of hermeneutic mental fictionalism as a descriptive account of folk commitments regarding mental state discourse doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

"Even if people do not literally have beliefs and desires, it is useful (perhaps even inevitable) for us to talk as if they do."

Tamás Demeter & @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social introduce a special issue on mental fictionalism.

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Roger Christan Schriner presents a non-fictional way to solve puzzles about qualitative experiences, through a limited, non-eliminativist form of illusionism. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Agata Machcewicz-Grad discusses a hybrid view of beliefs developed by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas, which combines a fictionalist treatment of standing beliefs with a realist account of occurrent judgments. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access #philsky

🌊 'At Sea About Ourselves'

Tim Crane spoke to The Heart of the Public about formation, reading and AI.

'Education is in crisis. And it’s not just because students aren’t writing anymore. (...)they’re not reading(...)They’re not reading anything.'

Read it here: buff.ly/vcLmLbZ

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Bruno Mölder argues that there is still no satisfactory response to the cognitive collapse objection to mental fictionalism doi.org/10.1080/0951.... Free access for three months. #philsky

Ross Pain develops a methodological distinction between two approaches to the study of the mind, which he calls the philosophy-first view and the science-first view. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Joseph Gough offers a genealogy of the concept of mind and reconstructs some of the arguments that the concept is harmful, rather than useful, for our understanding of ourselves and the world. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Nathanial Blower compares Adam Toon’s pretense-theoretic mental fictionalism with Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mind, interpreted therapeutically doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Felipe Morales Carbonell examines the prospects of applying Rylean ideas about fiction to mental fictionalism doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

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! www.tandfonline.com/... #philsky