Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Associate Professor Daniel Beben is involved in the project described here: https://dpul.princeton.edu/badakhshan_collection
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Associate Professor Ted Parent co-edited a book, called "Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations"(Routledge, 2022).

What is a mind? Can a machine like ChatGPT have a mind? And how would we know? Mental fictionalism offers a new approach to these timely questions. Its core idea is that mental states (thoughts, beliefs, desires) are useful fictions. When we talk about mental states, we should be seen as merely speaking "as if" people or machines had certain inner states, such as beliefs or desires, in order to make sense of their behaviour.
This is the first book dedicated to exploring mental fictionalism. The editors are an international team consisting of Tamas Demeter (Corvinus University of Budapest), Ted Parent (Nazarbayev University), and Adam Toon (University of Exeter), who have curated contributions from established authors as well as up-and-coming scholars in this burgeoning field. The result reveals the exciting potential of a fictionalist approach to the mind, as well as the challenges it faces. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on foundational debates in the philosophy of mind, such as the nature of mental states and folk psychology, as well as hot topics in the field, such as embodied cognition and A.I.

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Professor Daniel Scarborough recently published a book: Russia’s Social Gospel: Orthodox Pastoral Activism in Famine, War, and Revolution.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022

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