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Other minds are neither seen nor inferredSynthese 198 (12): 11977-11997. 2020.How do we know about other minds on the basis of perception? The two most common answers to this question are that we literally perceive others’ mental states, or that we infer their mental states on the basis of perceiving something else. In this paper, I argue for a different answer. On my view, we don’t perceive mental states, and yet perceptual experiences often immediately justify mental state attributions. In a slogan: other minds are neither seen nor inferred. I argue that this view offer…Read more
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Introspection Is Signal DetectionBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.Introspection is a fundamental part of our mental lives. Nevertheless, its reliability and its underlying cognitive architecture have been widely disputed. Here, I propose a principled way to model introspection. By using time-tested principles from signal detection theory (SDT) and extrapolating them from perception to introspection, I offer a new framework for an introspective signal detection theory (iSDT). In SDT, the reliability of perceptual judgments is a function of the strength of an in…Read more
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Johns Hopkins UniversityDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of PhilosophyAssociate Professor
APA Eastern Division
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |