Justin Tiehen

Biographic Data

ID999052
NAMEJustin Tiehen
GIVEN NAMESJustin
FAMILY NAMETiehen
SIGNATURETIEHEN J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Puget Sound
ORCID0000-0001-9891-0712
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Value alignment, human enhancement, and moral revolutions

    Ariela Tubert, Justin TiehenARTICLEInquiry2025

    Human beings are internally inconsistent in various ways. One way to develop this thought involves using the language of value alignment: the values we hold are not always aligned with our behavior and are not always aligned with each other. Because of this self-misalignment, there is room for potential projects of human enhancement that involve achieving a greater degree of value alignment than we presently have. Relatedly, discussions of AI eth…

  • Existentialist risk and value misalignment

    Open AccessAriela Tubert, Justin TiehenARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2025Cited by: 3References: 37

  • The absentminded professor

    Justin TiehenARTICLEInquiry2024

    In this paper, I argue that absences pose a challenge to our understanding of physicalism that has not been properly appreciated. I do this by setting out a thought experiment involving a being in whom absence properties occupy the causal roles that functionalists take to define mental properties, in which case these absence properties realize the being’s mental properties. Such a being should be compatible with the truth of physicalism, I argue,…

  • Metaphysics of the Bayesian mind

    Open AccessJustin TiehenARTICLEMind & Language2023

    Recent years have seen a Bayesian revolution in cognitive science. In this paper, I work out the implications of this revolution for the metaphysics of mind. My central claim is that the Bayesian approach supports a novel empirical argument for normativism, the thesis that belief has a rational normative essence. The argument I develop draws in part on the causal powers subset account of realization, with the connection being that Bayesians often…

  • The Ikea effect and the production of epistemic goods

    Open AccessJustin TiehenARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2022

  • Physicalism Requires Functionalism

    Open AccessJustin TiehenARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2016Cited by: 3References: 7

    How should ‘the physical’ be defined for the purpose of formulating physicalism? In this paper I defend a version of the via negativa according to which a property is physical just in case it is neither fundamentally mental nor possibly realized by a fundamentally mental property. The guiding idea is that physicalism requires functionalism, and thus that being a type identity theorist requires being a realizer‐functionalist. In §1 I motivate my a…

  • A psychofunctionalist argument against nonconceptualism

    Open AccessJustin TiehenARTICLESynthese2014References: 23

  • Disproportional mental causation

    Open AccessJustin Tiehen, Justin T TiehenARTICLESynthese2011Cited by: 1References: 21

  • Emergence and Quantum Mechanics

    Open AccessFrederick M Kronz, Justin Tiehen et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2002Cited by: 3References: 7

    In a recent article Humphreys has developed an intriguing proposal for making sense of emergence. The crucial notion for this purpose is what he calls “fusion” and his paradigm for it is quantum nonseparability. In what follows, we will develop this position in more detail, and then discuss its ramifications and limitations. Its ramifications are quite radical; its limitations are substantial. An alternative approach to emergence that involves qu…