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48Wegner's “illusion” anticipated: Jonathan Edwards on the willBehavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5): 676-676. 2004.Wegner's The Illusion of Conscious Will (2002) ignores an important aspect of the history of the concept: the determinism of Jonathan Edwards (1754) and the later response to this determinism by William James and others. We argue that Edwards's formulation, and James's resolution of the resulting dilemma, are superior to Wegner's.
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44Mathematical Representations in Science: A Cognitive–Historical Case HistoryTopics in Cognitive Science 1 (4): 758-776. 2009.The important role of mathematical representations in scientific thinking has received little attention from cognitive scientists. This study argues that neglect of this issue is unwarranted, given existing cognitive theories and laws, together with promising results from the cognitive historical analysis of several important scientists. In particular, while the mathematical wizardry of James Clerk Maxwell differed dramatically from the experimental approaches favored by Michael Faraday, Maxwell…Read more
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34Toward a cognitive-historical understanding of Michael faraday's research: Editor's introductionPerspectives on Science 14 (1): 1-6. 2006.
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15Psychology and the foundations of rational beliefBehavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (2): 262-263. 1983.
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36The pseudodiagnosticity trap: Should participants consider alternative hypotheses?Thinking and Reasoning 16 (4): 332-345. 2010.
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15Contextualizing Counterintuitiveness: How Context Affects Comprehension and Memorability of Counterintuitive ConceptsCognitive Science 31 (3): 415-439. 2007.A number of anthropologists have argued that religious concepts are minimally counterintuitive and that this gives them mnemic advantages. This paper addresses the question of why people have the memory architecture that results in such concepts being more memorable than other types of concepts by pointing out the benefits of a memory structure that leads to better recall for minimally counterintuitive concepts and by showing how such benefits emerge in the real‐time processing of comprehending …Read more
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Reflections on the History of Behavioral Theories of LanguageBehavior and Philosophy 7 (1): 91. 1979.
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Bowling Green State UniversityRegular Faculty
Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |