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60The analysis of thoughtsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (3). 1985.This Article does not have an abstract
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78Realism of Character and the Value of FictionIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Cambridge University Press. pp. 161--81. 1998.
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12Pretence, Pretending and MetarepresentingMind and Language 13 (1): 35-55. 1998.I assess the claim that metarepresentation is a key notion in understanding the nature and development of our capacity to engage in pretence. I argue that the metarepresentational programme is unhelpful in explaining how pretence operates and, in particular, how agents distinguish pretence from belief. I sketch an alternative approach to the relations between pretending and believing. This depends on a distinction between pretending and pretence, and upon the claim that pretence stands to preten…Read more
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9D. H. Ruben [1985]: The Metaphysics of the Social World. Routledge and Kegan Paul. x + 189 pp. £14.95 (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (1): 127-132. 1987.
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Rationality, decentring, and the evidence for pretence in nonhuman animalsIn Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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80Pretence, pretending, and metarepresentingMind and Language 13 (1): 35-55. 1998.I assess the claim that metarepresentation is a key notion in understanding the nature and development of our capacity to engage in pretence. I argue that the metarepresentational programme is unhelpful in explaining how pretence operates and, in particular, how agents distinguish pretence from belief. I sketch an alternative approach to the relations between pretending and believing. This depends on a distinction between pretending and pretence, and upon the claim that pretence stands to preten…Read more
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244Photography, painting and perceptionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (1): 23-29. 1991.
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Pretence and pretendingIn Arts and minds, Oxford University Press. 2004.Assesses the claim that metarepresentation — the mental representation of a mental representation — is a key notion in understanding the nature and development of our capacity to engage in pretence. Argues that the metarepresentational programme is unhelpful in explaining how pretence operates and, in particular, how agents distinguish pretence from reality. Sketches an alternative approach to the relations between pretending and believing.
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41Preserving the traces: An answer to noël CarrollJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 306-308. 2000.
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Pretence and rationality: The case of non‐human animalsIn Arts and minds, Oxford University Press. 2004.Argues that pretence is one clear indication of rationality. Makes a suggestion about the kind of evidence of pretence in animals we should be looking for. This suggestion makes claims about pretence hard to justify by comparison with, say, claims about imitation; Appeals to Morgan's canon in defence of this stance. Suggests that we can learn something about pretence by connecting it with the phenomenon of seeing‐in. Finally, offers a speculation on the evolutionary history of the capacity that …Read more
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17Narrative, imitation, and point of viewIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains sections titled: Agency and Access to the World Speaking and Seeing Imitation Some Resources of Narration The Varieties of Narrative Imitation.
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80Narrative and the Psychology of CharacterJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (1): 61-71. 2009.
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Methodological IndividualismIn N. J. Smelser & B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, . pp. 9755--60. 2001.
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126Narrative and coherenceMind and Language 19 (4). 2004.We outline a theory of one puzzling aspect of human cognition: a tendency to exaggerate the degree to which agency is manifested in the world. We call this over‐coherent thinking. We use Pylyshyn's idea of cognitive penetrability to help characterize this notion. We argue that this kind of thinking is essentially narrative in form rather than theoretical. We develop a theory of the relation between the degree of narrativity in a representation and its aptness to represent, and to express, mind. …Read more