Joshua Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2803-1939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imaginative beliefs
I argue for the existence of imaginative beliefs: mental states that are imaginative in format and doxastic in attitude. I advance two arguments for this thesis. First, there are imaginings that play the functional roles of belief. Second, there are imaginings that play the epistemic roles of belief. These arguments supply both descriptive and normative grounds for positing imaginative beliefs. I also argue that this view fares better than altern…
Imagination as a source of empirical justification
Traditionally, philosophers have been skeptical that the imagination can justify beliefs about the actual world. After all, how could merely imagining something give you any reason to believe that it is true? However, within the past decade or so, a lively debate has emerged over whether the imagination can justify empirical belief and, if so, how. This paper provides a critical overview of the recent literature on the epistemology of imagination…
How Imagination Informs
An influential objection to the epistemic power of the imagination holds that it is uninformative. You cannot get more out of the imagination than you put into it, and therefore learning from the imagination is impossible. This paper argues, against this view, that the imagination is robustly informative. Moreover, it defends a novel account of how the imagination informs, according to which the imagination is informative in virtue of its analog …
No-Spaces and Returns
Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return is meditation and reflection of the meaning of our conditions. As meditation it sings to us in a blue note that worries us, that lingers in the unsettled. It writes Black life as unsettled by the modern world and its maps. But Black life also unsettles the practices of cartography; indeed the maps that we have are political maps that are generated out of colonial desires
The structure of analog representation
This paper develops a theory of analog representation. We first argue that the mark of the analog is to be found in the nature of a representational system's interpretation function, rather than in its vehicles or contents alone. We then develop the rulebound structure theory of analog representation, according to which analog systems use interpretive rules that map syntactic structural features onto semantic structural features. The theory invol…
Of Black Study
The epistemic status of the imagination
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour
The Order of Disciplinarity, the Terms of Silence
Stronger together
The proposals gathered under the rubric of “Hilbert Problems” (HPs) demonstrate the progress, the disciplinary maturity, and the distinctive analytical potential of bio-cultural approaches to the study of religion. The HPs identify and investigate the ubiquitous evolutionary, cognitive, and neural processes that undergird the disparate array of religious phenomena. Many of the proposals offer fresh perspectives on conventional components of relig…
Racial Economies of Academia
Imagination as a source of empirical justification
Traditionally, philosophers have been skeptical that the imagination can justify beliefs about the actual world. After all, how could merely imagining something give you any reason to believe that it is true? However, within the past decade or so, a lively debate has emerged over whether the imagination can justify empirical belief and, if so, how. This paper provides a critical overview of the recent literature on the epistemology of imagination…
How Imagination Informs
An influential objection to the epistemic power of the imagination holds that it is uninformative. You cannot get more out of the imagination than you put into it, and therefore learning from the imagination is impossible. This paper argues, against this view, that the imagination is robustly informative. Moreover, it defends a novel account of how the imagination informs, according to which the imagination is informative in virtue of its analog …
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour
The Order of Disciplinarity, the Terms of Silence
Racial Economies of Academia
Racial Economies of Academia
Stronger together
The proposals gathered under the rubric of “Hilbert Problems” (HPs) demonstrate the progress, the disciplinary maturity, and the distinctive analytical potential of bio-cultural approaches to the study of religion. The HPs identify and investigate the ubiquitous evolutionary, cognitive, and neural processes that undergird the disparate array of religious phenomena. Many of the proposals offer fresh perspectives on conventional components of relig…
The Order of Disciplinarity, the Terms of Silence
The epistemic status of the imagination
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour
No-Spaces and Returns
Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return is meditation and reflection of the meaning of our conditions. As meditation it sings to us in a blue note that worries us, that lingers in the unsettled. It writes Black life as unsettled by the modern world and its maps. But Black life also unsettles the practices of cartography; indeed the maps that we have are political maps that are generated out of colonial desires
The structure of analog representation
This paper develops a theory of analog representation. We first argue that the mark of the analog is to be found in the nature of a representational system's interpretation function, rather than in its vehicles or contents alone. We then develop the rulebound structure theory of analog representation, according to which analog systems use interpretive rules that map syntactic structural features onto semantic structural features. The theory invol…
Of Black Study
Imaginative beliefs
I argue for the existence of imaginative beliefs: mental states that are imaginative in format and doxastic in attitude. I advance two arguments for this thesis. First, there are imaginings that play the functional roles of belief. Second, there are imaginings that play the epistemic roles of belief. These arguments supply both descriptive and normative grounds for positing imaginative beliefs. I also argue that this view fares better than altern…
Imagination as a source of empirical justification
Traditionally, philosophers have been skeptical that the imagination can justify beliefs about the actual world. After all, how could merely imagining something give you any reason to believe that it is true? However, within the past decade or so, a lively debate has emerged over whether the imagination can justify empirical belief and, if so, how. This paper provides a critical overview of the recent literature on the epistemology of imagination…
How Imagination Informs
An influential objection to the epistemic power of the imagination holds that it is uninformative. You cannot get more out of the imagination than you put into it, and therefore learning from the imagination is impossible. This paper argues, against this view, that the imagination is robustly informative. Moreover, it defends a novel account of how the imagination informs, according to which the imagination is informative in virtue of its analog …
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)