I am an associate professor of philosophy at Hiroshima University. 

My main research areas are philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive sciences. 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 am leading a 3-year project "Expanding the Notion of Agency" (JSPS KAKENHI, Scientific Research B; 2018-2021; with Richard Dietz, Akiko Frischhut, and John O'Dea).
  • Books
  • Papers & Chapters
  • Talks
  • Blog Entries
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​Books

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

Beliefs  Does functionalism entail extended mind?  [draft]
  • (2017) Synthese​
Imagination and belief 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

Commentaries and Book Reviews

Book Review: Art and Belief (OUP, 2017)
  • (forthcoming), 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
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​
Talks​

2018
  • K. Miyazono & A. Salice, “Social factors in delusion formation”, The 3rd Cork Annual Workshop on Social Agency, August 27, 2018, at University College Cork.
  • K. Miyazono, “The role of imagination in philosophical thought experiments”, Hamburg-Japan Philosophy Workshop, August 24, at University of Hamburg.
  • K. Miyazono, “Aliefs and pushmi-pullyu representations”, Workshop: Agency & Decision, August 20, 2018, at Lund University.
  • K. Miyazono, “Does empathy make the world a better place?”, Helsinki Workshop on Empathy and Emotional Sharing, August 16, 2018, at University of Helsinki. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Imagination and Husserlian eidetic variation”, Setouchi Philosophy Forum: Bridging Analytic and Phenomenological Approaches, July 1, 2018, at Hiroshima Institute of Technology. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Time and well-being”, 5th Annual Conference of The International Association for the Philosophy of Time, June 18th, 2018, at Lotte City Hotel Myeongdong, Seoul. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Hume on the phenomenology of belief”, Setouchi Philosophy Forum: Hume & Berkeley, February 20, 2018, at Hiroshima University.

2017
  • K. Miyazono, “Implicit biases and pushmi-pullyu representations”, The 17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, August 21, 2017, at Rikkyo University.
  • K. Miyazono, “Experimental psychology and architecture of imagination”, Workshop: Art & Mind, August 11, 2017, at University of Tokyo. 
  • A. Salice & K. Miyazono, “Being one of us: Group identification, joint actions and collective intentionality”, Tokyo Workshop on Social and Collective Self-Conscious Emotions, July 2, 2017, at University of Tokyo. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Aliefs and pushmi-pullyu representations”, PERFECT Seminar, March 27, 2017, at University of Birmingham. 
  • K. Miyazono, “A hybrid theory of delusion formation”, PERFECT Reading Group, March 27, 2017, at University of Birmingham.
  • K. Miyazono, “A hybrid theory of delusion formation”, Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group, March 22, 2017, at University of Edinburgh. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Implicit biases and pushmi-pullyu representations”, Minority and Philosophy Group at Leeds, March 21, 2017, at University of Leeds.  
  • K. Miyazono, “Intergroup bias, emotion, and pushmi-pullyu representation”, The 2nd Cork Annual Workshop on Social Agency, March 16, 2017, at University College Cork. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Perception without presentational phenomenology”, Philosophy Research Seminar, March 14, 2017, at University College Cork.

2016
  • K. Miyazono, “The evolutionary debunking argument defeats itself”, Current Trends in Analytical Philosophy, August 22, 2016, at Yonsei University.  
  • K. Miyazono, “Implicit biases and pushmi-pullyu representations”, The 3rd Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia, August 20, 2016, at Seoul National University. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Perception without presentational phenomenology”, Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness Symposium, July 30, 2016, at University of Tokyo. 
  • K. Miyazono, “A hybrid theory of delusion formation”, The 31st International Congress of Psychology, July 26, 2016, at PACIFICO Yokohama. 
  • K. Miyazono, “The evolutionary debunking argument defeats itself”, UHamburg-UTokyo Workshop: Language and Reality, June 25, 2016, at University of Tokyo.

2015
  • K. Miyazono, “Aliefs and pushmi-pullyu representations”, 2nd International Conference on Natural Cognition: Rationality and Its Rivals, December 10, 2015, at University of Macau.
  • K. Miyazono, “The role of imagination in philosophical thought experiments”, The Centre for Metaphysics and Mind Seminar, July 2, 2015, at University of Leeds. 
  • K. Miyazono, “The role of imagination in philosophical thought experiments”, Birmingham Work-In-Progress Seminar, June 30, 2015, at University of Birmingham. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Prediction-errors and two-factors: A hybrid approach”, Delusions Lunchtime Seminar, June 30, 2015, at University of Birmingham. 
  • K. Miyazono, “The role of imagination in philosophical thought experiments”, Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, May 29, 2015, at University of Tokyo.
  • K. Miyazono, “Does functionalism entail extended mind?”, Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy 2015 Spring Meeting, May 23, 2015, at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
  • K. Miyazono, “Does functionalism entail extended mind?”, The 53rd Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy, February 13, 2015, at University of Tokyo.

2014
  • K. Miyazono, “Hume on the phenomenology of belief”, Oxford Hume Forum, November 5, 2014, at Oxford Brookes University. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Visual experience without presentational phenomenology”, Birmingham Work-In-Progress Seminar, October 15, 2014, at University of Birmingham.
  • L. Bortolotti & K. Miyazono, “Do delusions have any epistemic value?”, The 88th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, July 11-13, 2014, at Cambridge University.
  • K. Miyazono, “Doxastic innocence of delusional believers”, European Epistemology Research Network Meeting 2014, June 30, 2014, at Autonomous University of Madrid. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Functionalism and doxasticism about delusion”, Functions in the Brain and Brain Mechanisms, May 20, 2014, at University of Düsseldorf. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Delusion, belief & rationality”, Balzan Workshop: Dreams, Delusion and Early Modern Literature, April 3, 2014, at University of Birmingham.
  • K. Miyazono, “Delusion & harmful dysfunction analysis”, Concept of Health Seminar, February 11, 2014, at King’s College London. 

2013
  • K. Miyazono, “Delusion formation and Bayesianism”, iCog Inaugural Conference, December 1, 2013, at University of Sheffield.
  • K. Miyazono, “Hume on the phenomenology of belief”, Mainz Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, November 21, 2013, at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
  • K. Miyazono, “A theory of belief for doxasticism about delusion”, The 2nd PLM Conference, September 13, 2013, at Central European University. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Bayesian approaches to delusion formation?”, Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, June 10, 2013, at University of Lancaster.
  • K. Miyazono, “Imaginative resistance and moral conventional task”, Cognitive Future in Humanities, 1st Conference, April 4, 2013, at Bangor University. 
  • K. Miyazono, “A theory of belief for doxasticism about delusions”, Birmingham Philosophy Society Seminar, March 11, 2013, at University of Birmingham. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Imaginative resistance and the problem of internalism”, Birmingham Post Graduate Seminar, February 6, 2013, at University of Birmingham. 

2012
  • K. Miyazono, “Imaginative resistance and higher-lower inconsistency”, Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, October 4, 2012, at University of Tokyo. 
  • K. Miyazono, “A theory of belief for delusion doxasticists”, First Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia, September 8, 2012, at Academia Sinica, Taipei. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Delusions as malfunctioning beliefs”, 38th Meeting of Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 21, 2012, at University of Colorado at Boulder. 
  • K. Miyazono, “The role of imagination in delusion: Two hypotheses”, The 86th Annual Meeting of American Philosophical Association Pacific Devision, April 6, 2012, at Westin Seattle, Seattle, WA. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Delusions as malfunctioning beliefs”, Harvard/MIT Friends and Eminees Group, March 6, 2012, at Harvard University. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Delusions as malfunctioning beliefs”, The 20th International Meeting of Hongo Metaphysics Club, Feb 21, 2012, at University of Tokyo. 

2011
  • K. Miyazono, “Reality-monitoring failures and metacognitive account of delusion”, 2011 International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, November 10, 2011, at Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Solving the puzzle of imaginative resistance”, The 29th Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy, July 13, 2011, at University of Tokyo. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Imaginative resistance and higher-lower inconsistency”, The Australasian Philosophy Conference, July 5, 2011, at University of Otago. 
  • K. Miyazono, “Inner speech and introspective self-knowledge”, The 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, June 10, 2011, at Kyoto University. 

2010
  • K. Miyazono, “Imaginative resistance and truth in fiction”, The 18th International Congress of Aesthetics, August 12, 2010, at Peking University. 

2009
  • K. Miyazono, “Thought experiment and imagination”, The 14th International Meeting of Hongo Metaphysics Club with Timothy Williamson, October 2, 2009, at University of Tokyo. 

2008
  • K. Miyazono, “Paraconsistent web of belief”, The 9th International Meeting of Hongo Metaphysics Club with Graham Priest, June 12, 2008, at University of Tokyo.