Peer Reviewed

Forthcoming. Three Kinds of Suspended Belief (w/ Kengo Miyazono)
The Philosophical Quarterly
Published | Penultimate
Synopsis: There are three kinds of suspended belief: positive suspension and negative suspension (previously distinguished), and aporetic suspension (our suggestion).

2025. The Aesthetic Value of Diverse Beliefs.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Published | Penultimate
Synopsis: If everyone’s beliefs met the conditions of doxastic correctness, then there would be (i) less aesthetic diversity in the world, and (ii) less aesthetic value in the world (at least in some important respects).

2022. Beliefs, Delusions, and Dry-Functionalism.
Asian Journal of Philosophy
Published | Penultimate
Synopsis: An invited contribution to a book symposium on Kengo Miyazono’s Delusions and Beliefs. I suggest that dry-functionalism has the resources to satisfy some of Miyazono’s explanatory goals, despite his claim to the contrary.

2021. The Aim of Belief and Suspended Belief.
Philosophical Psychology
Published | Penultimate
Synopsis: Teleological and normative theories of belief fail to explain the descriptive and normative features of suspended belief.

2019. Weighing Aims in Doxastic Deliberation.
Synthese
Published | Penultimate
Synopsis: Teleological theories of belief can answer the exclusivity objection.

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Popular Media

2025. An Ontological Disproof of the Devil?
Daily Philosophy | Link

2019. What’s it like to be a philosopher in Hong Kong?
The Philosophers’ Cocoon | Link

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Ph.D. Thesis

2018. On Belief: Aims, Norms, and Functions.
Lingnan University
Published | Penultimate
Synopsis: An extended discussion of the ‘aim of belief’ literature and a defence of a functional theory of belief.
My doctoral research was supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme.

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Email: jon.cja@gmail.com