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New issue, new thread! Adam Toon and Tamás Demeter present "As If We Had Minds: The Prospects of Mental Fictionalism", with sixteen papers (nine are open or free access). Follow the thread to learn more! www.tandfonline.com/... #philsky

Editors discuss the history of mental fictionalism & introduce the other contributions: doi.org/10.1080/0951... free access "The present collection demonstrates the philosophical fertility of the fictionalist framework & the breadth of the questions to which it gives rise." #philsky

Felipe Morales Carbonell examines the prospects of applying Rylean ideas about fiction to mental fictionalism doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Nathanial Blower compares Adam Toon’s pretense-theoretic mental fictionalism with Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mind, interpreted therapeutically doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Joseph Gough offers a genealogy of the concept of mind and reconstructs some of the arguments that the concept is harmful, rather than useful, for our understanding of ourselves and the world. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Ross Pain develops a methodological distinction between two approaches to the study of the mind, which he calls the philosophy-first view and the science-first view. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Bruno Mölder argues that there is still no satisfactory response to the cognitive collapse objection to mental fictionalism doi.org/10.1080/0951.... Free access for three months. #philsky

Agata Machcewicz-Grad discusses a hybrid view of beliefs developed by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas, which combines a fictionalist treatment of standing beliefs with a realist account of occurrent judgments. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access #philsky

Roger Christan Schriner presents a non-fictional way to solve puzzles about qualitative experiences, through a limited, non-eliminativist form of illusionism. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Uku Tooming examines the prospects of hermeneutic mental fictionalism as a descriptive account of folk commitments regarding mental state discourse doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Gavin Robert Foster provides an overview of the evidence from comparative and developmental psychology that is inconsistent with mental fictionalism. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Michael D. Kirchhoff argues that discourse about mental representation fails to be genuinely explanatory. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Marco Facchin maintains that the real existence of extended propositional attitudes is not just compatible with Toon’s fictionalism, but also able to bolster its explanatory power doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Stacie Friend & Kris Goffin argue that although chatbot-fictionalism offers insights into human-AI interaction, it does not resolve the ethical concerns. doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access. #philsky

Spencer Knafelc suggests that therapists and patients adopt ways of thinking and speaking that are amenable to a fictionalist interpretation. doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

Víctor Fernández Castro & Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo explore the intersection between affective fictionalism and the neurodiversity movement doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky