corrected proofs and index sent to press. 3.5 years after louise and i decided to do this, we are done.

Devin Curry@devinsanchezcurry.com · 2mo ago

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a fourth journal just invited me to review the same (unchanged) manuscript. please god get me out of this niche

In our last post for the week, Josh Mugg responds to the comments on his book. Thanks very much to Josh, Devin, Lesley, and Aliya for their contributions, and thanks to you for following along! Don't forget to join the discussion in the comments.

Joshua Mugg: Response to Commentators

Response to Commentators Joshua Mugg Response To Curry One goal of my project is to provide an empirically informed account of cognitive control that can be marshalled in defense of voluntarism of belief. Curry offers a dilemma for my account of control and voluntarism about belief. By his lights, I am engaged in a homuncular functionalist project of explaining human reasoning by positing smaller and dumber homunculi.

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Last but certainly not least in the commentaries for this week, we have Aliya Rumana commenting on "From Human Reasoning to Belief"!

Aliya Rumana: Comments on “From Human Reasoning to Belief”

Comments on "From Human Reasoning to Belief" Aliya Rumana The holding power of dual-process theory in experimental process psychology is mysterious if we don’t consider the basic constraints on statistical testing. First, every study aims to reject the null hypothesis (H0) in favour of the alternative hypothesis (HA). Second, H0 claims that there is no difference in the cognitive process underlying observable behaviour—i.e., single-process theory (SPT)—whereas…

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Today we keep our symposium on Josh Mugg's book rolling, with comments from Lesley Walker!

Lesley Walker: Commentary on “From Human Reasoning to Belief”

Commentary on "From Human Reasoning to Belief" Lesley Walker In Joshua Mugg's book, From Human Reasoning to Belief, he offers an empirically viable alternative to dual process theory and in doing so unifies three contentious cases of belief. The first are cases of wishful thinking, the second, cases of faith, and the third cases often labeled as the result of implicit attitudes.

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wrote about putting a donk on it, and in particular about *who* puts a bangin donk on it (it = belief fixation)

Brains@philosophyofbrains.com · 4w ago

Check out our first commentary on Mugg's "From Human Reasoning to Belief," by Devin Sanchez Curry!

The intro post to this week's symposium on Josh Mugg's book is live! Check it out, and don't forget to participate in the comments section!

Joshua Mugg: Precis for “From Human Reasoning to Belief”

Precis of "From Human Reasoning to Belief" Joshua Mugg Many thanks to the Brains Blog and Dan Burnston for the opportunity to discuss my book with Devin Curry, Aliya Rumana, and Lesley Walker. In this initial post, I will provide an overview of the book. Those interested in a longer overview can check out my contribution to The Nature of Belief, …

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When my school was cutting my major, I posted something on X about my anxiety and disappointment. A trustee recommended I read some stoicism because he found that it helped him (with no sense of irony that the discipline he was recommending I read was just eliminated by the board he sat on).

Method Man ends a very good Wu-Tang Clan halftime show with, "Knicks in 5, what y'all talking about?" You don't know him, and you don't know his style.

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Introducing Philosophy of Mind, Today

This coursebook introduces philosophy of mind as it is practiced in the third decade of the 21st century to a wide range of readers. It provides any interested student, researcher, or general reader--...

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open access special issue on Poslajko's UNREAL BELIEFS out now! in my contribution i explain why i think beliefs that are socially constructed are (not nonetheless but therefore) real (per Poslajko's definition of reality) studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/index.php/St...

the whole introduction of LYRIC LOGIC— titled "Philosophical Poetry"— is available to read via preview at @columbiaup.bsky.social 's site cup.columbia.edu/book/lyric-l...

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Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new.... | CUP

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A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social: The Deliberation Taboo Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Give it a try here! self-model.github.io/pretendingNo...

Ian Phillips@ianbphillips.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Think you could play Battleship normally despite knowing where all the ships are? Or would you succumb to the "curse of knowledge"? Find out in our new paper in Psych. Science. Super fun & rewarding to be part of this collaboration led by the brilliant @matanmazor.bsky.social! Thread below 👇

an internet person has made a searchable version of Borges‘ library of Babel and it’s way more horrifying than the actual story libraryofbabel.info

this is the project that dan was far and away most excited to talk about over the last several years of his life

Keith Frankish@keithfrankish.com · 6mo ago

Just out: my account of an extended thought experiment conducted by Dan Dennett and me. Open access. The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The special issue *The Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation* is out! I'm grateful to my co-editors and to the other contributors. link.springer.com/journal/1124...

Topoi

Topoi's main assumption is that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful activity, which constantly challenges our received views, relentlessly ...

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Devin Curry@devinsanchezcurry.com · last yr.

"Nonfiction Stories about Minds", my narcissism-of-small-differences-fueled broadside against mental fictionalism, is now forthcoming in a special issue of Topoi on the principle of charity. philpapers.org/rec/CURNSA-2

one semester's daily quizzes

johanna's essay mostly resonates with my experience, except that the classroom i'm teaching intro in this semester doesn't have windows

Johanna Winant@johannawinant.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

my wife may be going into labor right when she goes on call as a midwife, generating a real russell's paradox type situation

Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature. philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF

Olivia Sultanescu, The Concern for What is True - PhilPapers

The concept of truth always had a special significance within Donald Davidson’s view of language and thought. For instance, Davidson always maintained that a basic requirement for understanding anothe...

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same as the old dorp

Fourteen excellent new papers up at Imprint, including this paper by Anthony Reeves on the moral importance of due process, as well as papers by @neilwwilliams.bsky.social, @devinsanchezcurry.com, @frankphilosophy.bsky.social, @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and many more.

Philosophers' Imprint@philimprint.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Anthony Reeves, (2025) “Agents of Our Interests: The Moral Claim to Legal Process”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 33. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

favorite thing I've written

Philosophers' Imprint@philimprint.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just published: Devin Sanchez Curry, (2025) “On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 28. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What motivates mental fictionalism?

Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...

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Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

i don't think there's a particularly strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and being a productive writer, but i do think there's a very strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and producing guides to productive writing

Sept. 19-20: Retirement conference in honor of Gary Hatfield at UPenn. Speakers include Aleksandra Igdalova, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ben Baker, Peter Schwartz, Louise Daoust, and Uljana Feest. For those interested in attending, RSVP here: upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #philsky