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I know you see it wrong! Children use others’ false perceptions to predict their behaviorsJournal of Experimental Child Psychology 150 380-395. 2016.Research on children’s ability to attribute false mental states to others has focused exclusively on false beliefs. We developed a novel paradigm that focuses instead on another type of false mental state: false perceptions. From approximately 4 years of age, children begin to recognize that their perception of an illusory object can be at odds with its true properties. Our question was whether they also recognize that another individual viewing the object will similarly experience a false perce…Read more
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44If chimpanzees are mindreaders, could behavioral science tell? Toward a solution of the logical problemPhilosophical Psychology 22 (3): 305-328. 2009.There is a persistent methodological problem in primate mindreading research, dubbed the 'logical problem,' over how to determine experimentally whether chimpanzees are mindreaders or just clever behavior-readers of a certain sort. The problem has persisted long enough that some researchers have concluded that it is intractable. The logical problem, I argue, is tractable but only with experimental protocols that are fundamentally different from those that have been currently used or suggested. I…Read more
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45In search of the metaphor of the mind: A critical review of Baars' in the theater of consciousness (review)Philosophical Psychology 17 (2). 2004.Metaphors of the mind abound. The mind has been metaphorically described as an aviary, a telephone switchboard, a ghost in a machine, and a computer - to name but a few. Bernard Baars, in his In the theater of consciousness, adds to this venerable list, arguing that the mind can be instructively thought of as a working theater. Baars argues for the aptness of his theater metaphor by showing how it can be used to tell "a unified story" of all the currently available scientific data on consciousne…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |