About Me​

I am an associate professor of philosophy at Hokkaido University, where I am also affiliated with CHAIN and CAEP. ​My research focuses on the intersection between philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry. 

I used to be an associate professor at Hiroshima University, a research fellow at University of Birmingham, a visiting student at Yale and MIT, and a graduate student at University of Tokyo. 

I am an editorial member of the journal Philosophical Explorations and the blog Imperfect Cognitions. 
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JSPS Fellowship

I welcome early-career researchers who wish to apply for JSPS Fellowships (international and domestic). Contact me for details.

[Current JSPS Fellows]
Books

​​Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction
  • (2021) with L. Bortolotti, Polity
​​Delusions and Beliefs: A Philosophical Inquiry
  • (2018) Routledge​
Papers & Chapters

Visual experiences without presentational phenomenology [draft]
  • (forthcoming) Ergo
Vividness as a natural kind [open access]
  • (2020) with U. Tooming, Synthese​
Social epistemological conception of delusion [open access]
  • ​(2020) with A. Salice, Synthese
Being one of us. Group identification, joint actions, and collective intentionality [draft]
  • (2020) with A. Salice, Philosophical Psychology
Explaining delusional beliefs: A hybrid model [draft]
  • (2019) with R. McKay, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry​
Does functionalism entail extended mind?  [draft]
  • (2017) Synthese​
The ethics of delusional belief  [open access]
  • (2016) with L. Bortolotti, Erkenntnis​
The cognitive architecture of imaginative resistance  [draft] Recent work on the nature and development of delusions  [open access]
  • (2015) with L. Bortolotti, Philosophy Compass
Delusions as harmful malfunctioning beliefs  [open access]
  • (2015) Consciousness & Cognition
​Prediction-error and two-factor theories of delusion formation: competitors or allies? The causal role argument against doxasticism about delusions  [open access] 
  • (2014) with L. Bortolotti, ​Avant​​
Delusion and self-knowledge
  • (in preparation) for a collection on Belief, Imagination, and Delusion​
​A hybrid account of thought insertion
  • (in preparation) for a collection on Thought Insertion
On the putative epistemic generativity of memory and imagination  ​Affective forecasting and substantial self-knowledge
  • ​(in preparation) with U. Tooming, for a collection on Self-Knowledge and Emotion ​​ ​
Others
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[Book Review] Art and Belief (OUP, 2017)
  • (2018), British Journal of Aesthetics
​​[Commentary] Vivid representations and their effects [open access]
  • ​(2018) for book symposium on Humean Nature by Neil Sinhababu (OUP, 2017), Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia​​
[Encyclopedia Entry] Beliefs  [Book Review] Knowledge through Imagination (OUP, 2016) [draft]
  • (2016) with M. Kasaki, Journal of Mind and Bahavior
[Encyclopedia Entry]​​ Imagination and belief [Commentary] Are alien thoughts beliefs?
  • (2015) ​with L. Bortolotti, for book symposium on Transparent Minds by Jordi Fernández (OUP, 2013), Teorema​​​
Blog Posts

The Junkyard
The Imperfect Cognitions
Philosophy @ Birmingham
iCog Blog