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15‘I knew all along’: making sense of post-self-deception judgmentsSynthese 203 (136): 1-15. 2024.Individuals deceive themselves about a wide variety of subjects. In fortunate circumstances, where those who manage to leave self-deception embrace reality, an interesting phenomenon occurs: the formerly self-deceived often confess to having ‘known [the truth] all along’. These post-self-deception judgments are not conceptually innocuous; if genuine, they call into question the core feature of prominent theories of self-deception, namely that self-deceived individuals do not believe the unwelcom…Read more
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‘Nobody Makes it Alone’: Towards a Relational View of Resilience (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This chapter argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the limits of the mainstream individualistic notion of resilience and, in light of these limits, it advances a new, relational notion of the concept of resilience that contributes to the individuals’ well-being and takes into consideration the role of systemic inequality. The first half of the paper argues that the individualistic notion is flawed in two ways: i) it can foster ill-being because it is cognitively taxing, and ii) it discou…Read more
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140Self-control in action and beliefPhilosophical Explorations 24 (2): 225-242. 2021.Self-control is normally, if only tacitly, viewed as an inherently practical capacity or achievement: as exercised only in the domain of action. Questioning this assumption, we wish to motivate the...
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Trent UniversityAssistant Professor
McGill University
PhD, 2021
Oshawa, ON, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Moral Psychology |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Ethics of Belief |