Project Talks and Outputs
Talks
'Conspiratorial Attitudes, Delusion, and Psychopathology' (Sullivan-Bissett and Ichino)
Why Do People Believe Weird Things? seminar series
Bochum, 20th January 2022
'Conspiracy Theories and Make-Believe' (Ichino)
Imagining, Understanding, and Knowing Workshop
Turin, 27th-28th January 2022
'Conspiratorial Attitudes, Delusion, and Psychopathology' (Sullivan-Bissett and Ichino)
The 1st International Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory
Pitzer College, 5th-7th February 2022
Outputs
Ichino, Anna forthcoming: 'Vaccine Hesitancy and the Reluctance to "Tempt Fate"'. Philosophical Psychology.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2022: 'Believing Badly Ain't So Bad'. Philosophical Psychology. doi: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2077717. [Review essay on Neil Levy's Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People.]
In progress
Ichino, Anna and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema: 'Conspiratorial Attitudes, Delusion, and Psychopathology'
Ichino, Anna and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema (eds.) Special Issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology on Conspiratorial Ideation and Pathological Belief
Previous relevant work
Ichino, Anna forthcoming: ‘Conspiracy Theories as Walt-Fiction’. In Langkau, Julia, and Engish, Patrik (eds.) The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition. Routledge.
Ichino, Anna and Räikkä, Juha 2020: ‘Non-Doxastic Conspiracy Theories’. Argumenta. Vol. 5, pp. 1–15.
Ichino, Anna 2020: ‘Superstitious Confabulations’. Topoi. Vol. 39, pp. 203–17.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2020: ‘We Are Like American Robins'. In Stapleford, Scott and McCain, Kevin (eds.) Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2020: 'Unimpaired Abduction to Alien Abduction: Lessons on Delusion Formation'. Philosophical Psychology. Vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 679–704.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema and Noordhof, Paul 2020: 'The Transparent Failure of Norms to Keep Up Standards of Belief'. Philosophical Studies. Vol. 177, pp. 1213–1227.
Ichino, Anna 2020: Credo in un solo Dio… O me lo immagino? I meccanismi cognitivi sottesi al pensiero religioso. Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano. [Title translation: I Believe in One God … Or Do I Imagine That? The Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Religious Thinking].
Bortolotti, Lisa and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2019: 'Is Choice Blindness a Case of Self-Ignorance?' Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02414-3
Ichino, Anna 2019: ‘Imagination and Belief in Action’. Philosophia. Vol. 47, pp. 1517–1534.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2018: 'Monothematic Delusion: A Case of Innocence from Experience'. Philosophical Psychology. Vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 920–47.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2018: 'Explaining Doxastic Transparency: Aim, Norm, or Function?' Synthese. Vol. 195, no. 8, pp. 3453–76.
Bortolotti, Lisa and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2018: 'The Epistemic Innocence of Clinical Memory Distortions'. Mind and Language. Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 263–79.
Ichino, Anna and Currie, Gregory 2017: ‘Truth and Trust in Fiction’. In Sullivan-Bissett, Ema; Bradley, Helen and Noordhof, Paul (eds.) Art and Belief. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 63–82.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2015: 'Implicit Bias, Confabulation, and Epistemic Innocence'. Consciousness and Cognition. Vol. 33, pp. 548–60.
Talks
'Conspiratorial Attitudes, Delusion, and Psychopathology' (Sullivan-Bissett and Ichino)
Why Do People Believe Weird Things? seminar series
Bochum, 20th January 2022
'Conspiracy Theories and Make-Believe' (Ichino)
Imagining, Understanding, and Knowing Workshop
Turin, 27th-28th January 2022
'Conspiratorial Attitudes, Delusion, and Psychopathology' (Sullivan-Bissett and Ichino)
The 1st International Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory
Pitzer College, 5th-7th February 2022
Outputs
Ichino, Anna forthcoming: 'Vaccine Hesitancy and the Reluctance to "Tempt Fate"'. Philosophical Psychology.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2022: 'Believing Badly Ain't So Bad'. Philosophical Psychology. doi: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2077717. [Review essay on Neil Levy's Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People.]
In progress
Ichino, Anna and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema: 'Conspiratorial Attitudes, Delusion, and Psychopathology'
Ichino, Anna and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema (eds.) Special Issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology on Conspiratorial Ideation and Pathological Belief
Previous relevant work
Ichino, Anna forthcoming: ‘Conspiracy Theories as Walt-Fiction’. In Langkau, Julia, and Engish, Patrik (eds.) The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition. Routledge.
Ichino, Anna and Räikkä, Juha 2020: ‘Non-Doxastic Conspiracy Theories’. Argumenta. Vol. 5, pp. 1–15.
Ichino, Anna 2020: ‘Superstitious Confabulations’. Topoi. Vol. 39, pp. 203–17.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2020: ‘We Are Like American Robins'. In Stapleford, Scott and McCain, Kevin (eds.) Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2020: 'Unimpaired Abduction to Alien Abduction: Lessons on Delusion Formation'. Philosophical Psychology. Vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 679–704.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema and Noordhof, Paul 2020: 'The Transparent Failure of Norms to Keep Up Standards of Belief'. Philosophical Studies. Vol. 177, pp. 1213–1227.
Ichino, Anna 2020: Credo in un solo Dio… O me lo immagino? I meccanismi cognitivi sottesi al pensiero religioso. Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano. [Title translation: I Believe in One God … Or Do I Imagine That? The Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Religious Thinking].
Bortolotti, Lisa and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2019: 'Is Choice Blindness a Case of Self-Ignorance?' Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02414-3
Ichino, Anna 2019: ‘Imagination and Belief in Action’. Philosophia. Vol. 47, pp. 1517–1534.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2018: 'Monothematic Delusion: A Case of Innocence from Experience'. Philosophical Psychology. Vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 920–47.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2018: 'Explaining Doxastic Transparency: Aim, Norm, or Function?' Synthese. Vol. 195, no. 8, pp. 3453–76.
Bortolotti, Lisa and Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2018: 'The Epistemic Innocence of Clinical Memory Distortions'. Mind and Language. Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 263–79.
Ichino, Anna and Currie, Gregory 2017: ‘Truth and Trust in Fiction’. In Sullivan-Bissett, Ema; Bradley, Helen and Noordhof, Paul (eds.) Art and Belief. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 63–82.
Sullivan-Bissett, Ema 2015: 'Implicit Bias, Confabulation, and Epistemic Innocence'. Consciousness and Cognition. Vol. 33, pp. 548–60.