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    Rationality and metacognition in non-human animals
    In 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
  • Kai Vogeley, Martin Kurthen, Peter Falkai, and Wolfgang Maier. Essential Functions of the Human
    with Elkhonon Goldberg, Kenneth Podell, Karl H. Pribram, Vittorio Gallese, Marianne Hammerl, Andy P. Field, Frederick Travis, R. Keith Wallace, and J. Allan Cheyne
    Consciousness and Cognition 8 270. 1999.
  • Espace et représentation
    Archives de Philosophie 58 (n/a): 563. 1995.
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    Perceiving Intentions
    In Johannes Roessler & Naomi Eilan (eds.), Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, Clarendon Press. 2003.
    This paper defends the view that knowledge about one's own intentions can be gained in part through perception, although not through introspection. The various kinds of misperception of one's intentions are discussed. The latter distinction is applied to the analysis of schizophrenic patients' delusion of control.
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    Overlooking metacognitive experience
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (2): 158-159. 2009.
    Peter Carruthers correctly claims that metacognition in humans may involve self-directed interpretations (i.e., may use the conceptual interpretative resources of mindreading). He fails to show, however, that metacognition cannot rely exclusively on subjective experience. Focusing on self-directed mindreading can only bypass evolutionary considerations and obscure important functional differences
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    Can Nonhuman Primates Read Minds?
    Philosophical Topics 27 (1): 203-232. 1999.
    Granted that a given species is able to entertain beliefs and desires, i.e. to have (epistemic and motivational) internal states with semantically evaluable contents, one can raise the question of whether the species under investigation is, in addition, able to represent properties and events that are not only perceptual or physical, but mental, and use the latter to guide their actions, not only as reliable cues for achieving some output, but as mental cues (that is: whether it can 'read minds'…Read more
  • Metacognition and animal rationality
    In Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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    Does metacognition--the capacity to self-evaluate one's cognitive performance--derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely on informational processes? Joëlle Proust draws on psychology and neuroscience to defend the second claim. She argues that metacognition need not involve metarepresentations, and is essentially related to mental agency
  • Animal learning
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 46 (183): 418-434. 1992.
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    La connaissance philosophique: essais sur l'œuvre de Gilles-Gaston Granger
    with Elisabeth Schwartz
    Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. 1995.
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    Free Will : A Neurophilosophical Viewpoint
    Archives de Philosophie du Droit 55 79-95. 2012.
    Le déterminisme implique que le libre arbitre n’existe pas, que nous ne pouvons pas faire autrement ; réciproquement, avoir la possibilité de faire autrement implique que le déterminisme ne s’applique pas à l’instant, s’il existe, où on l’exerce. Cependant, la question de la responsabilité rend difficile d’accepter que les agents ne puissent pas faire autrement et motive fortement à rendre compatibles déterminisme et libre arbitre ou à soutenir, dans une veine « incompatibiliste », que le cervea…Read more
  • Questions de forme. Logique et proposition analytique de Kant à Carnap
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (4): 712-713. 1989.
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    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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    De la Nécessité d’un système de concepts. Quelques réflexions sur L'Aufbau der Welt de Rudolf Camap
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2 930-935. 1988.