About Me​

My main research areas are philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of psychiatry. I explore philosophical and psychological questions about belief, imagination, delusion, rationality/irrationality, and normality/abnormality. 

I am an associate professor of philosophy at Hokkaido University. Previously, I was 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 Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Explorations, and the blog Imperfect Cognitions. 
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​Delusions in the Social Mind
  • with D. Williams & S. Wilkinson, under contract with OUP 
​Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction [blog post 1 and 2]​ Delusions and Beliefs: A Philosophical Inquiry [blog post]
  • (2018) Routledge ​

​Delusion and self-knowledgeA hybrid account of thought insertion
  • (forthcoming) Intruders in the Mind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Thought Insertion (OUP) ​​
On the putative epistemic generativity of memory and imagination [open access] Self-knowledge and affective forecasting
  • (forthcoming) with U. Tooming, Self-Knowledge and Emotion (Routledge)
Visual experiences without presentational phenomenology [open access]
  • (2021) Ergo
Empathy, altruism, and group identification [open access]
  • (2021) with K. Inarimori, Frontiers in Psychology
Vividness as a natural kind  [open access]
  • (2021) with U. Tooming, Synthese​
Social epistemological conception of delusion [open access / blog post]
  • ​(2021) with A. Salice, Synthese 
Being one of us. Group identification, joint actions, and collective intentionality [draft / blog post]
  • (2020) with A. Salice, Philosophical Psychology
Explaining delusional beliefs: A hybrid model [draft / blog post]
  • (2019) with R. McKay, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry​
Does functionalism entail extended mind? [draft / blog post]
  • (2017) Synthese​
The ethics of delusional belief [​open access / blog post]
  • (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 [blog post 1 and 2]
  • (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​​

​Commentary: On Smithies’ Argument from Blindsight [draft]
  • (2022) Asian Journal of Philosophy 
Commentary: Who tailors the blanket? [preprint]
  • (2022) with K. Suzuki & K. Miyahara, Behavioral and Brain Sciences  
Book Review: ​Art and Belief (OUP, 2017)
  • (2019) British Journal of Aesthetics​
Encyclopedia Entry: Beliefs  Commentary: Vivid representations and their effects
  • ​(2018) Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia​​
Book Review: Knowledge through Imagination (OUP 2016)
  • (2016) with M. Kasaki, Journal of Mind and Bahavior
Bibliography: Imagination and belief Commentary: Are alien thoughts beliefs?
  • (2015) ​with L. Bortolotti, Teorema​​​​

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