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50Rationality and metacognition in non-human animalsIn Susan L. Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. pp. 247--274. 2006.The project of understanding rationality in non-human animals faces a number of conceptual and methodological difficulties. The present chapter defends the view that it is counterproductive to rely on the human folk psychological idiom in animal cognition studies. Instead, it approaches the subject on the basis of dynamic- evolutionary considerations. Concepts from control theory can be used to frame the problem in the most general terms. The specific selective pressures exerted on agents endowe…Read more
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50Questions of Form: Logic and Analytic Proposition From Kant to CarnapUniv of Minnesota Press. 1989.Hence, this book's provocative claim: today's so-called logical empiricism owes much more to Kant's notion of science than to Hume's.
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45Précis of The Philosophy of MetacognitionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (3): 703-709. 2014.
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43Conversational metacognitionIn Ipke Wachsmuth, Manuela Lenzen & Günther Knoblich (eds.), Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines, Oxford University Press. pp. 329. 2008.This chapter aims to relate two fields of research that have been rarely – if ever – associated, namely embodied communication and metacognition. Exploring this relationship offers a new perspective for understanding the relationship between self-knowledge and mindreading. "Embodied communication" refers to the process of conveying information to one or several interlocutors through speech and associated bodily gestures, or through gestures only. It is prima facie plausible that embodied commun…Read more
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42The Evolution of Primate Communication and MetacommunicationMind and Language 31 (2): 177-203. 2016.Against the prior view that primate communication is based only on signal decoding, comparative evidence suggests that primates are able, no less than humans, to intentionally perform or understand impulsive or habitual communicational actions with a structured evaluative nonconceptual content. These signals convey an affordance-sensing that immediately motivates conspecifics to act. Although humans have access to a strategic form of propositional communication adapted to teaching and persuasion…Read more
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41Epistemic normativity from the reasoner's viewpointBehavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (5): 265-265. 2011.Elqayam & Evans (E&E) are focused on the normative judgments used by theorists to characterize subjects' performances (e.g. in terms of logic or probability theory). They ignore the fact, however, that subjects themselves have an independent ability to evaluate their own reasoning performance, and that this ability plays a major role in controlling their first-order reasoning tasks
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34Précis de La Nature de la Volonté et DisputatioPhilosophiques 0-00. 2008.Cet article résume l'ouvrage paru en 2005 et répond aux objections de Stéphane Chauvier, Daniel Laurier et Pierre Livet dans le cadre d'une disputatio organisée par la revue Philosophiques
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34Source unreliability decreases but does not cancel the impact of social information on metacognitive evaluationsFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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34Replies to Langland‐Hassan, Nagel, and SmithPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (3): 736-755. 2014.
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29This book chapter aims at exploring how intentional a piece of behavior should be to count as an action, and how a minimal view on action, not requiring a richly intentional causation, may still qualify such a behavior as voluntary.
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27XIII-Epistemic Agency and Metacognition: An Externalist ViewProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (1pt3): 241-268. 2008.
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26Experience of agency in patients with schizophrenia involves an interesting dissociation; these patients demonstrate that one can have a thought or perform an action consciously without being conscious of thinking or acting as the motivated agent, author of that thought or of that action. This chapter examines several interesting accounts of this dissociation, and aims at showing how they can be generalized to thought insertion phenomena. It is argued that control theory allows such a generaliza…Read more
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26Intentionality, Consciousness and the System's PerspectiveIn Denis Fisette (ed.), Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution, Springer. pp. 51--72. 1999.
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26What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5 (1): 1-10. 2023.Procedural metacognition is the set of affect-based mechanisms allowing agents to regulate cognitive actions like perceptual discrimination, memory retrieval or problem solving. This article proposes that procedural metacognition has had a major role in the evolution of communication. A plausible hypothesis is that, under pressure for maximizing signalling efficiency, the metacognitive abilities used by nonhumans to regulate their perception and their memory have been re-used to regulate their c…Read more
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24Review of John Searle, Consciousness and Language (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (5). 2003.
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24Réponse à Édouard Machery. Pour une pensée évolutionniste des répresentationsDialogue 44 (1): 161-166. 2005.
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23De la difficulté d’être naturaliste en matiére d’intentionalitéRevue de Synthèse 111 (1-2): 13-32. 1990.
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22Affordances from a control viewpointPhilosophical Psychology. forthcoming.Perceiving an armchair prepares us to sit. Reading the first line in a text prepares us to read it. This article proposes that the affordance construct used to explain reactive potentiation of behavior similarly applies to reactive potentiation of cognitive actions. It defends furthermore that, in both cases, affordance-sensings do not only apply to selective (dis)engagement, but also to the revision and the termination of actions. In the first section, characteristics of environmental affordanc…Read more
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21Response to Phil GerransConsciousness and Cognition 12 (4): 513-514. 2003.Phil Gerrans comments on Proust's paper entitled 'Thinking of oneself as the same' raise two points; one has to do with the value of sceptical arguments about self-knowledge, the other with what a self can know of him/herself. These two comments are discussed. It is shown first that metacognition operates on content as well as on vehicles, which leaves every replica with her own numerical identity. Second, the homuncular fallacy is discussed as part of a response to the second point
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21Metacognition and mindreading in young children: A cross-cultural studyConsciousness and Cognition 85 (C): 103017. 2020.
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20Examining implicit metacognition in 3.5-year-old children: an eye-tracking and pupillometric studyFrontiers in Psychology 4. 2013.
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18Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a LanguageIn Michael Frauchiger (ed.), Modalities, Identity, Belief, and Moral Dilemmas, De Gruyter. pp. 111-128. 2015.
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1612- and 24-Month-Old Infants’ Search Behavior Under Informational UncertaintyFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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