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 Potrc¿

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