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32Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-ConsciousnessBradford. 2010.An argument that in response to sociocultural pressures, human minds develop self-consciousness by activating a complex machinery of self-regulation.
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45Local Induction (edited book)Reidel. 1976.The local justification of beliefs and hypotheses has recently become a major concern for epistemologists and philosophers of induction. As such, the problem of local justification is not entirely new. Most pragmatists had addressed themselves to it, and so did, to some extent, many classical inductivists in the Bacon-Whewell-Mill tradition. In the last few decades, however, the use of logic and semantics, probability calculus, statistical methods, and decision-theoretic concepts in the reconstr…Read more
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142Mind and Common Sense: Philosophical Essays on Common Sense Psychology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1991.The contributors to this volume examine recent controversies about the importance of common sense psychology for our understanding of the human mind. Common sense provides a familiar and friendly psychological scheme by which to talk about the mind. Its categories tend to portray the mind as quite different from the rest of nature, and thus irreducible to physical matters and its laws. In this volume a variety of positions on common sense psychology from critical to supportive, from exegetical t…Read more
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128What do we need concepts for?Mind and Language 4 (1-2): 17-23. 1989.If we are serious about concepts, we must begin by addressing two questions: What are concepts for, what is their job? And what means are available in an organism for concepts to do their job? One is a question of raison d'.
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112Interpreting MindsMIT Press. 1997.In this original and provocative book, Bogdan proposes that the ability to interpret others' mental states should be viewed as an evolutionary adaptation.
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3The importance of beliefIn R. Bogdan (ed.), Belief: Form, Content, and Function, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--16. 1986.
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16Roderick M. Chisholm (edited book)Reidel. 1985.BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RODERICK M. CHISHOLM 1941 (a) 'Sextus Empiricus and Modern Empiricism', Philosophy of Science VIII, 371-384. 1942 (a) 'The Problem of the Speckled Hen', Mind u, 368-373. 1943 (a) Review of 'Lewin's Topological and Vector ...
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32Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and ImaginingMIT Press. 2013.Looks at what the author calls "mindvaulting," or the human mind's ability to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion and action, to leap—consciously and deliberately—to past or future, possible or impossible, ...
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106Information and semantic cognition: An ontological accountMind and Language 3 (2): 81-122. 1988.Information is the fuel of cognition. At its most basic level, information is a matter of structures interacting under laws. The notion of information thus reflects the (relational) fact that a structure is created by the impact of another structure. The impacted structure is an encoding, in some concrete form, of the interaction with the impacting structure. Information is, essentially, the structural trace in some system of an interaction with another system; it is also, as a consequence, the …Read more
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