Peer Reviewed

Forth. The Aesthetic Value of Diverse Beliefs.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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.

Online Posts

2019. What’s it like to be a philosopher in Hong Kong?
For ‘The Cocoon Goes Global’ at The Philosophers’ Cocoon.
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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.

Contact

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Email: jon.cja@gmail.com