Drafts

• The Social Turn in Delusions Research. (download here)
• Bayesian Psychiatry and the Social Focus of Delusions. (with Marcella Montagnese) (download here)

Single-Authored Articles

forthcoming

• The Case for Partisan Motivated Reasoning. Synthese. (download here)

• Identity-Defining Beliefs on Social Media. Philosophical Topics. (download here)

2023

• Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Highly Intelligent, Vigilant, Devious, Self-Deceiving, Coalitional Apes. Philosophical Psychology. (published / preprint).

2022

• The Marketplace of Rationalisations. Economics and Philosophy. (published).

2021

• Is the Brain an Organ for Free Energy Minimisation? Philosophical Studies. (published / preprint)

• Signalling, Commitment, and Strategic Absurdities. Mind and Language. (published / preprint).

2020

• Motivated Ignorance, Rationality, and Democratic Politics. Synthese (published / preprint)

• Imaginative Constraints and Generative Models. Australasian Journal of Philosophy (published)

2019

• Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. (published / final draft)

• Socially Adaptive Belief. Mind and Language. (published/ preprint)

• Hierarchical Minds and the Perception/Cognition Distinction. Inquiry. (published / penultimate draft)

2018

• Predictive Minds and Small-Scale Models: Kenneth Craik’s Contribution to Cognitive Science. Philosophical Explorations. (published / penultimate draft)

• Predictive Coding and Thought. Synthese. (published / penultimate draft)

• Hierarchical Bayesian Models of Delusion. Consciousness and Cognition. (published / penultimate draft)

• Pragmatism and the Predictive Mind. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. (published / penultimate draft)

2017

• Predictive Processing and the Representation Wars. Minds and Machines. (published)

Co-Authored Articles

forthcoming

• Culture, Partisanship, and Signalling: The Social Nature of Political Belief Systems (with Kengo Miyazono). Psychological Inquiry. (download here)

2018

• Action, Affordances, and Anorexia: Body Representation and Basic Cognition (co-authored with Stephen Gadsby). Synthese. (published / penultimate draft)

2017

• From Symbols to Icons: The Return of Resemblance in the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution (co-authored with Lincoln Colling). Synthese. (published)

Reviews

• Lisa Bortolotti, “The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs”. Mind. (published)

• Steven Horst, “Cognitive Pluralism”. Philosophical Psychology. (final draft)

• Andy Clark, “Surfing Uncertainty”. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. (final draft)

Doctoral Thesis

• The Mind as a Predictive Modelling Engine: Generative Models, Structural Similarity, and Mental Representation. (download here; accessible blog posts on each chapter of the thesis here.)