About​

I am an associate professor of philosophy at Hiroshima University. My main research area is philosophy of mind, broadly construed (including philosophy of psychology,  philosophy of psychiatry, and early modern philosophy of mind). 

​I obtained my MA (2008) and PhD (2014) at University of Tokyo. I was also a visiting student at Yale (2008-2010) and MIT (2011-2012), and a research fellow at Birmingham (2013-2014). 

I have other websites (not very updated though) at Hiroshima University, PhilPapers, Google Scholar, Academia.edu, and ResearchGate​.  My full CV (in Japanese) is here. 

JSPS Fellowship

I welcome early-career researchers who wish to apply for JSPS Fellowships for international applicants as well as for domestic applicants. Contact me for details. 
  • Books
  • Papers & Chapters
  • Blog Entries
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Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction
  • (expected in 2019) with L. Bortolotti, Polity.​​
Delusions and Beliefs: A Philosophical Inquiry
  • (2018) Routledge​
Being one of us. Group identification, joint actions, and collective intentionality [draft]
  • (forthcoming) with A. Salice, Philosophical Psychology
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​

Encyclopedia Entries, ​Commentaries, & Book Reviews

Beliefs  Book Review: Art and Belief (OUP, 2017)
  • (2018), British Journal of Aesthetics
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
Imagination and belief Book Review: Knowledge through Imagination (OUP, 2016) [draft]
  • (2016) with M. Kasaki, Journal of Mind and Bahavior
Are alien thoughts beliefs?
  • (2015) ​with L. Bortolotti, for book symposium on Transparent Minds by Jordi Fernández (OUP, 2013), Teorema​