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37What Does “Mind‐Wandering” Mean to the Folk? An Empirical InvestigationCognitive Science 44 (10). 2020.Although mind‐wandering research is rapidly progressing, stark disagreements are emerging about what the term “mind‐wandering” means. Four prominent views define mind‐wandering as (a) task‐unrelated thought, (b) stimulus‐independent thought, (c) unintentional thought, or (d) dynamically unguided thought. Although theorists claim to capture the ordinary understanding of mind‐wandering, no systematic studies have assessed these claims. Two large factorial studies present participants (N = 545) wit…Read more
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33The fallibility paradoxSocial Philosophy and Policy 36 (1): 234-248. 2019.:Reasons-responsiveness theories of moral responsibility are currently among the most popular. Here, I present the fallibility paradox, a novel challenge to these views. The paradox involves an agent who is performing a somewhat demanding psychological task across an extended sequence of trials and who is deeply committed to doing her very best at this task. Her action-issuing psychological processes are outstandingly reliable, so she meets the criterion of being reasons-responsive on every sing…Read more
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11Cognitive efficiency beats top-down control as a reliable individual difference dimension relevant to self-controlCognition 215 (C): 104818. 2021.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |