Antonia Peacocke
Antonia Peacocke
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Stanford University
I work on mind, action, epistemology, and aesthetics.
I work on mind, action, epistemology, and aesthetics.
My latest paper is Inquiry and the Problem of Answering (Noûs, forthcoming).
My latest talk was about the actions you can perform to change aspect perception in an experience of an artwork (Pacific ASA 2026).
I've just finished writing a book called Mental Means (OUP, forthcoming). Here's the introduction. In this book, I explain how we take mental means to our mental actions. When we understand this, we can see how a thought of one content-attitude type can belong to a wholly distinct content-attitude type too. For example, a judgment that Dawn is the best soap can also, itself, be a decision to buy Dawn. This gives us way of understanding token identity in thoughts of different types without having to make any implausible type-level identity claims (like a claim that all judgments of a certain kind are decisions, too). Using this framework, I explain how we can make judgments intentionally, how creative conception of new artworks involves agency, how mental images get tagged with deeper content in imagination, how we perform certain inferences, and how inquiry is unified as a process. Email me for a full draft of the book!
My latest talk was about the actions you can perform to change aspect perception in an experience of an artwork (Pacific ASA 2026).
I've just finished writing a book called Mental Means (OUP, forthcoming). Here's the introduction. In this book, I explain how we take mental means to our mental actions. When we understand this, we can see how a thought of one content-attitude type can belong to a wholly distinct content-attitude type too. For example, a judgment that Dawn is the best soap can also, itself, be a decision to buy Dawn. This gives us way of understanding token identity in thoughts of different types without having to make any implausible type-level identity claims (like a claim that all judgments of a certain kind are decisions, too). Using this framework, I explain how we can make judgments intentionally, how creative conception of new artworks involves agency, how mental images get tagged with deeper content in imagination, how we perform certain inferences, and how inquiry is unified as a process. Email me for a full draft of the book!
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