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8A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971.
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2Patrick Suppes (edited book)Reidel. 1979.The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Fests…Read more
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6Minding minds: evolving a reflexive mind by interpreting othersMIT Press. 2000.The theme of this essay is rather simple, though its demonstration is not. It is that humans think reflexively or metamentally because -- and often in the forms in which -- they interpret each other. In this essay ‘metamental’ means ‘about mental’ and ‘reflexive mind’ means ‘a mind thinking about its own thoughts.’ To think reflexively or metamentally is to think about thoughts deliberately and explicitly, as in thinking that my current thoughts about metamentation are right. Thinking about thou…Read more
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2Logic, language, and probability (edited book)D. Reidel Pub. Co.. 1973.AN INTENSIONAL INTERPRETATION OF TRUTH-VALUES* 1. Introduction In a profound and seminal paper of 1956 'Begrundung einer strengen Implikation', JSL), ...
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12Why Me?: The Sociocultural Evolution of a Self-Reflective MindCambridge University Press. 2021.This book explores the evolution of the mental competence for self-reflection: why it evolved, under what selection pressures, in what environments, out of what precursors, and with what mental resources. Integrating evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives, Radu J. Bogdan argues that the competence for self-reflection, uniquely human and initially autobiographical, evolved under strong and persistent sociocultural and political pressures on the developing minds of older child…Read more
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50Roderick M. Chisholm (edited book)Reidel. 1986.The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc. ) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Fest…Read more
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The Pragmatics of KnowledgeDissertation, Stanford University. 1980.This essay focuses critically on two major targets, called representationalism and naturalism, whose assumptions and conclusions are examined in almost each chapter, relative to the topic of interest. Both views are shown to ignore cognitive agency and the pragmatics of an agent's current cognition. In the search for objective and infallible guarantees of knowledge both views end up being "subsystemic epistemologies". In contrast, the general message of this essay is that we need an agent-orient…Read more
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7Young Believers or Secular Citizens? An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Religion on Political Attitudes and Participation in Romanian High-School StudentsJournal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 9 (25): 155-179. 2010.In this paper, I explore the effects of religious denomination and patterns of church-going on the construction of political values for high-school students. I argue that religion plays a role in the formation of political attitudes among teenagers and it influences their political participation. I examine whether this relationship is constructed along denominational lines. From a theoretical perspective, previous research heralded the compatibility between Western Christianity and the democrati…Read more
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19By way of means and endsIn Grounds for cognition: how goal-guided behavior shapes the mind, L. Erlbaum Associates. 1994.This chapter provides the teleological foundations for our analysis of guidance to goal. Its objective is to ground goal-directedness genetically. The basic suggestion is this. Organisms are small things, with few energy resources and puny physical means, battling a ruthless physical and biological nature. How do they manage to survive and multiply? CLEVERLY, BY ORGANIZING
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27Review of Radu J. Bogdan: Interpreting Minds: The Evolution of a Practice (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (3): 492-496. 1999.
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24More theory and evolutionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (1): 390-391. 1991.Heyes’s skepticism about theory of mind (ToM) in nonhuman primates exploits the idea of a strong and unified theory of mind in humans based on an unanalyzed category of mental state. It also exploits narrow debates about crucial observations and experiments while neglecting wider evolutionary trends. I argue against both exploitations
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The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive SciencePhilosophical Quarterly 44 (175): 246-251. 1994.
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17Information and Semantic Cognition: An Ontological AccountMind and Language 3 (2): 81-122. 1988.
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1Arne Naess, "The Pluralist and the Possibilist Aspect of the Scientific Enterprise" (review)Theory and Decision 5 (3): 353. 1974.
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11Mind, content and informationSynthese 70 (February): 205-227. 1987.What is it that one thinks or believes when one thinks or believes something? A mental formula? A sentence in some natural language? Its truth conditions? Or perhaps an abstract proposition? The current story of content is fairly ecumenical. It says that a number of aspects, some mental, other semantic, go into our understanding of content. Yet the current story is incomplete. It leaves out a very important aspect of content, one which I call incremental information. It is information in a speci…Read more
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