Inference and Consciousness

Anders Nes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has written on cognitive phenomenology, inference, and perception in various journals and edited collections. He has previously been a Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo, and a Career Development Fellow at Oxford University. Timothy Chan was Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo. He had been a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and taught at several other universities. He edited The Aim of Belief (2013) and published research articles in journals including Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.

Introduction: Inference and Consciousness

Anders Nes

Part I. Unconscious Inference in Cognitive Science and Psychiatry






Unconscious Inference Theories of Cognitive Achievement
Kirk Ludwig and Wade Munroe




A Realist Perspective on Bayesian Cognitive Science
Michael Rescorla




The Role of Unconscious Inference in Models of Delusion Formation
Federico Bongiorno and Lisa Bortolotti

Part II. Inference in Speech Comprehension




Seeing and hearing meanings - A Non-Inferential Approach to Speech Comprehension
Berit Brogaard




Metacognition and Inferential Accounts of Communication
Nicholas Allott

Part III. Inference, Structure, and Generality




Non-Inferential Transitions: Imagery and Association
Jake Quilty-Dunn and Eric Mandelbaum




Knowledge of Logical Generality and the Possibility of Deductive Reasoning
Corine Besson

Part IV. Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference




Fore- and Background in Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference
Anders Nes




Morphological Content and Chromatic Illumination in Belief-Fixation
David Henderson, Terry Horgan, and Matjaž Potrč

Part V. Inference and Perceptual and Introspective Knowledge




Experience and Epistemic Structure: Can Cognitive Penetration Result in Epistemic Downgrade?
Elijah Chudnoff




The Transparency of Inference

Ram Neta