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]

• Uku Tooming (2019-2021)

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Books

​​Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction

• (2021) with L. Bortolotti, Polity
  

​​Delusions and Beliefs: A Philosophical Inquiry

• (2018) Routledge​

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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]

• (2016) with S. Liao, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination, A. Kind (ed.) Routledge

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?

• (2015) with L. Bortolotti & M. R. Broome, Aberrant Beliefs and Reasoning, N. Galbraith (ed.) Psychology Press  ​​

The causal role argument against doxasticism about delusions  [open access] 

• (2014) with L. Bortolotti, ​Avant​​

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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 

• (in preparation) with U. Tooming, for a collection on Imagination and Memory

​Affective forecasting and substantial self-knowledge

• ​(in preparation) with U. Tooming, for a collection on Self-Knowledge and Emotion ​​ ​

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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 

• (2018) with S. Tsugita, SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development, M. H. Bornstein (ed.) SAGE​​

[Book Review] Knowledge through Imagination (OUP, 2016) [draft]

• (2016) with M. Kasaki, Journal of Mind and Bahavior

[Encyclopedia Entry]​​ Imagination and belief

• (2016) with A. Ichino & S. Liao, Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, D. Pritchard (ed.) OUP​

[Commentary] Are alien thoughts beliefs?

• (2015) ​with L. Bortolotti, for book symposium on Transparent Minds by Jordi Fernández (OUP, 2013), Teorema​​​

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Blog Posts

The Brains Blog

• Book Symposium: Declan Smithies’ The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (1)

The Imperfect Cognitions

• Social Approaches to Delusions (1): The Social Epistemological Conception of Delusion
• Group Identification, Joint Actions, and Collective Intentionality
• Explaining Delusional Beliefs: a Hybrid Model
• Delusions and Beliefs
• Does Functionalism Entail Extended Mind?
• Conference Report: Rationality and Its Rivals
• The Causal Role Argument against Doxasticism about Delusions
• Delusions as Harmful Malfunctioning Beliefs
• Conference Report: Dreams, Delusions and Early Modern Literature
• Delusion in DSM 5: A Response to Lisa
• Delusions as Malfunctioning Beliefs

The Junkyard

• Truth in Fiction and Imaginative Resistance
• How to Distinguish Belief from Imagination

Philosophy @ Birmingham

• The Predictive Minds Chapter 7
• Do Delusions Have Epistemic Value?

iCog Blog

• On What Makes Delusions Pathological​