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77The foundations of metacognition (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.Bringing together researchers from across the cognitive sciences, the book is valuable for philosophers of mind, developmental and comparative psychologists, and neuroscientists.
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120Teleology first: Goals before knowledge and beliefBehavioral and Brain Sciences 44. 2021.Comparing knowledge with belief can go wrong in two dimensions: If the authors employ a wider notion of knowledge, then they do not compare like with like because they assume a narrow notion of belief. If they employ only a narrow notion of knowledge, then their claim is not supported by the evidence. Finally, we sketch a superior teleological view.
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26The purposes of descriptive psychologyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 358-370. 2023.In this paper, I discuss the different views of the founders of descriptive psychology in the 19th century about the meaning and purpose of this discipline and sketch a new plan for connecting descriptive psychology with the language-critical tradition of analytic philosophy. I will show that the goals Hermann Lotze, Franz Brentano, and Wilhelm Dilthey set for descriptive psychology were too lofty for different reasons. The common problem they faced was how to reconcile the ideal of autonomous p…Read more
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3How Relational Are Davidson’s Beliefs?In Ralf Stoecker (ed.), Reflecting Davidson: Donald Davidson responding to an international forum of philosophers, W. De Gruyter. pp. 175-193. 1993.
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23File Change Semantics for preschoolersInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 6 (3): 483-501. 2005.We develop a new theory of the cognitive changes around 4 years of age by trying to explain why understanding of false belief and of alternative naming emerge at this age. We make use of the notion of discourse referents as it is used in File Change Semantics, one of the early forms of the more widely known Discourse Representation Theory. The assumed cognitive change exists in how children can link DRs in their mind to external referents. The younger children check whether the conditions for a …Read more
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Wittgenstein Symposium: Centenary Celebration (edited book)Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. 1990.
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5Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol 90 – 2014 : International Journal for Analytic Philosophy (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2015.Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area, especially articles related to the analytic tradition.
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23Do events recur?In James Higginbotham, Fabio Pianesi & Achille C. Varzi (eds.), Speaking of events, Oxford University Press. pp. 95--104. 2000.
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Critique of the empirical critierion of sense according to WittgensteinFilosoficky Casopis 38 (4): 569-569. 1990.
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111Review: Mind World: Essays in Phenomenology and Ontology (review)Mind 115 (457): 169-173. 2006.
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38The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy, edited by Mark TextorMind 119 (473): 253-258. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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43Die natur Des subjektiven: Einige bemerkungen zu kutscheras objektivismus-kritik (review)Erkenntnis 48 (2-3): 183-188. 1998.Kutschera's criticism of an objectivist theory of mind is shown to rest on a premise which an objectivist need not accept, namely, that there is a deep metaphysical distinction between the physical and the psychological domain. This premise can be rejected on naturalistic grounds. Referring to the work of Rosenthal, Dennett and Davidson, it is argued that less metaphysically loaded explanations can be given of what is subjective about the mind.
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83The Mind of Donald Davidson (edited book)Netherlands: Rodopi. 1989.WHAT IS PRESENT TO THE MIND? Donald DAVIDSON The University of California at Berkeley There is a sense in which anything we think about is, ...
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1Rezension zu: Michael Dummett: Ursprünge der analytischen Philosophie. Übersetzt von Joachim Schulte. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1988, 200 S (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 73 (3): 337-344. 1991.
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53Intentionality, Information, and ExperienceIn Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds.), Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain, Ontos Verlag. pp. 12--9. 2009.The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and is still a dominant subject in modern philosophy and science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind," but believe the "puzzles" to be puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. Philosophers also believe that reduction …Read more
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7Wittgenstein: Eine Neubewertung/Towards a Re-evaluation (edited book)Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. 1990.An läßlich der I 00. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Ludwig Wittgenstein, dem wohl bedeutendsten Philosophen unseres Jahrhunderts und Namensgeber der veranstaltenden Gesellschaft, wurde das 14. Internationale Symposium in Kirchberg gänzlich unter die programmatische Perspektive einer Neubewertung seiner Philosophie gestellt. Dem Anlasse entsprechend war dieses Symposium das weitaus größte aller bisherigen mit nahezu 600 Teilnehmern und 230 Vorträgen. Nur 138 davon konnten in die Akten des 14. Sy…Read more
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Grazer Philosophische Studien: Internationale Zeitschrift Für Analytische Philosophie. Gegründet von Rudolf Haller (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2004.
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26Erratum to: Young children’s protest: what it can (not) tell us about early normative understandingPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (1): 179-179. 2017.
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92What is pre-reflective self-consciousness? Brentano's theory of inner consciousness revisitedIn Denis Fisette & Guillaume Fréchette (eds.), Themes from Brentano, Editions Rodopi. pp. 44--41. 2013.
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9Twardowski's Distinction between Actions and ProductsIn Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Jan Woleński (eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw school and contemporary philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 23--34. 1998.
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54Holism: A Consumer Update (edited book)Rodopi. 1993.Critically reflecting some theses of Fodor & LePore's Holism, it is argued that semantic holism in spite of all their criticism is not defeated. As a consequence of the rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction, a first result is that they do not take Traditional Holism, as it originates from Frege and Wittgenstein, serious at all. Whereas a Weak Anatomism, inspired with views of Traditional Holism, might be an interesting alternative to atomism and holism even for Quine and Neo-Fregeans l…Read more
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15Gegenstandslose GedankenGrazer Philosophische Studien 25 (1): 501-531. 1985.Thoughts may have a subject — they may concern a certain topic —without having an object in the sense of being directed upon a referent. It is argued that, once this distinction is acknowledged, a third position between Meinong and Russell can be established. There will then be objectless thoughts which need not be false in view of the non-existence of their purported referents. But there will also be object-dependent thoughts which have their referents necessarily. Neither logically proper name…Read more
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33The puzzle of mirror self-recognitionPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (2): 279-304. 2018.
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58Semantic holism is here to stayIn Abraham Zvie Bar-On (ed.), Grazer Philosophische Studien, Distributed in the U.s.a. By Humanities Press. pp. 1-16. 1986.Critically reflecting some theses of Fodor & LePore's Holism, it is argued that semantic holism in spite of all their criticism is not defeated. As a consequence of the rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction, a first result is that they do not take Traditional Holism, as it originates from Frege and Wittgenstein, serious at all. Whereas a Weak Anatomism, inspired with views of Traditional Holism, might be an interesting alternative to atomism and holism even for Quine and Neo-Fregeans l…Read more
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