About Me​

I am a philosopher of mind, psychology, and psychiatry. 

Currently, I am an associate professor of philosophy at Hokkaido University (also affiliated with CHAIN and CAEP). 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 Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Explorations, and the blog Imperfect Cognitions.   

Updates
Books

​​Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction [book launch / blog post 1 and 2]​
  • (2021) with L. Bortolotti, Polity 
​​Delusions and Beliefs: A Philosophical Inquiry [blog post]
  • (2018) Routledge ​
Papers & Chapters

Visual experiences without presentational phenomenology
  • (2021) Ergo
Empathy, altruism, and group identification
  • (2021) with K. Inarimori, Frontiers in Psychology
Vividness as a natural kind
  • (2021) with U. Tooming, Synthese​
Social epistemological conception of delusion [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 [​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 
  • (2014) with L. Bortolotti, ​Avant​​
In Progress

Delusions in the Social Mind 
  • with D. Williams & S. Wilkinson, Oxford University Press (under contract) 
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Delusion and self-Knowledge
  • for a collection on Belief, Imagination, and Delusion​
​A hybrid account of thought insertion
  • for a collection on Thought Insertion
On the putative epistemic generativity of memory and imagination  ​Affective forecasting and substantial self-knowledge
  • with U. Tooming, for a collection on Self-Knowledge and Emotion ​​ ​
Delusion and malfunction
  • for a collection on Philosophy of Delusion
 Misc.

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​​​​
Blog Posts

The Philosopher's Cocoon
Polity Blog
The Brains Blog
The Imperfect Cognitions
The Junkyard
Philosophy @ Birmingham
iCog Blog