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    Affordances from a control viewpoint
    Philosophical Psychology. forthcoming.
    Perceiving an armchair prepares us to sit. Reading the first line in a text prepares us to read it. This article proposes that the affordance construct used to explain reactive potentiation of behavior similarly applies to reactive potentiation of cognitive actions. It defends furthermore that, in both cases, affordance-sensings do not only apply to selective (dis)engagement, but also to the revision and the termination of actions. In the first section, characteristics of environmental affordanc…Read more
  •  5
    Subjectivité et conscience d'agir: approches cognitive et clinique de la psychose
    with Henri Grivois
    Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. 1998.
    Dans la psychose, les données cliniques montrent que dès l'apparition des premiers troubles aigus, une difficulté caractéristique se manifeste au niveau de l'attribution de la responsabilité causale des actions. Les patients se sentent poussés à agir par les autres tout en ayant aussi le sentiment de contrôler l'action d'autrui. Cette difficulté va souvent de pair chez les schizophrènes avec une modification du sentiment d'identité personnelle. Parmi les symptômes de l'autisme, on trouve des dif…Read more
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    What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?
    Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5 (1): 1-10. 2023.
    Procedural metacognition is the set of affect-based mechanisms allowing agents to regulate cognitive actions like perceptual discrimination, memory retrieval or problem solving. This article proposes that procedural metacognition has had a major role in the evolution of communication. A plausible hypothesis is that, under pressure for maximizing signalling efficiency, the metacognitive abilities used by nonhumans to regulate their perception and their memory have been re-used to regulate their c…Read more
  •  15
    Mental Acts
    In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Mental Agency as Sensitivity to Reasons Mental Agency as Voluntary Control Mental Agency, ‘Evaluative Control,’ and Metacognition References Further reading.
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    Adaptive Control Loops as an Intermediate Mind-Brain Reduction Basis
    In Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds.), Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain, Ontos Verlag. pp. 191-219. 2009.
  • Sens frégéen et compréhension de la langue
    In Herman Parret & Jacques Bouveresse (eds.), Meaning and understanding, W. De Gruyter. pp. 304-324. 1981.
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    Malfunction and Mental Illness
    with Brendan A. Maher, A. W. Young, Philip Gerrans, John Campbell, Kai Vogeley, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Owen Flanagan, Robert L. Woolfolk, and Barry Smith
    The Monist 82 (4): 658-670. 1999.
    For years a debate has raged within the various literatures of philosophy, psychiatry, and psychology over whether, and to what degree, the concepts that characterize psychopathology are social constructions that reflect cultural values. While the majority position among philosophers has been normativist, i.e., that the conception of a mental disorder is value-laden, a vocal and cogent minority have argued that psychopathology results from malfunctions that can be described by terminology that i…Read more
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    Are Children Sensitive to What They Know?: An Insight from Yucatec Mayan Children
    with Sunae Kim, Olivier Le Guen, and Beate Sodian
    Journal of Cognition and Culture 21 (3-4): 226-242. 2021.
    Metacognitive abilities are considered as a hallmark of advanced human cognition. Existing empirical studies have exclusively focused on populations from Western and industrialized societies. Little is known about young children’s metacognitive abilities in other societal and cultural contexts. Here we tested 4-year-old Yucatec Mayan by adopting a metacognitive task in which children’s explicit assessment of their own knowledge states about the hidden content of a container and their informing j…Read more
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    The foundations of metacognition (edited book)
    with Michael J. Beran, Johannes Brandl, and Josef Perner
    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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    Metacognition and mindreading in young children: A cross-cultural study
    with Sunae Kim, Beate Sodian, Markus Paulus, Atsushi Senju, Akiko Okuno, Mika Ueno, and Shoji Itakura
    Consciousness and Cognition 85 (C): 103017. 2020.
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    Can Nonhuman Primates Read Minds?
    Philosophical Topics 27 (1): 203-232. 1999.
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    Entretien avec Joëlle Proust
    Cahiers Philosophiques 4 7-21. 2011.
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    De la difficulté d’être naturaliste en matiére d’intentionalité
    Revue de Synthèse 111 (1-2): 13-32. 1990.
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    Langages
    with François de Polignac, Françoise Vielliard, Jean-Claude Margolin, Paul J. Smith, Joël Cornette, Pierre-François Moreau, and Mireille Gueissaz
    Revue de Synthèse 110 (3-4): 499-515. 1989.
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    XIII-Epistemic Agency and Metacognition: An Externalist View
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (1pt3): 241-268. 2008.
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    Dans son compte-rendu de mon livre, Les Animaux Pensent-ils?, Machery objecte que l'évolution n'étant ni hiérarchique ni linéaire, il n'et pas justifié de proposer une analyse hiérarchique des représentations. Je réponds à cette objection, en montrant qu'on peut en effet distinguer des types de représentation par leurs propriétés sémantiques et computationnelles. On peut reconnaître le caractère anagénétique du développement de la cognition sans pour autant légitimer une conception hiérarchique …Read more
  • Metacognition and animal rationality
    In Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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    Does metacognition--the capacity to self-evaluate one's cognitive performance--derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely on informational processes? Joëlle Proust draws on psychology and neuroscience to defend the second claim. She argues that metacognition need not involve metarepresentations, and is essentially related to mental agency
  • Animal learning
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 46 (183): 418-434. 1992.
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    La connaissance philosophique: essais sur l'œuvre de Gilles-Gaston Granger
    with Elisabeth Schwartz
    Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. 1995.
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    Free Will : A Neurophilosophical Viewpoint
    Archives de Philosophie du Droit 55 79-95. 2012.
    Le déterminisme implique que le libre arbitre n’existe pas, que nous ne pouvons pas faire autrement ; réciproquement, avoir la possibilité de faire autrement implique que le déterminisme ne s’applique pas à l’instant, s’il existe, où on l’exerce. Cependant, la question de la responsabilité rend difficile d’accepter que les agents ne puissent pas faire autrement et motive fortement à rendre compatibles déterminisme et libre arbitre ou à soutenir, dans une veine « incompatibiliste », que le cervea…Read more
  • Questions de forme. Logique et proposition analytique de Kant à Carnap
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (4): 712-713. 1989.
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    De la Nécessité d’un système de concepts. Quelques réflexions sur L'Aufbau der Welt de Rudolf Camap
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2 930-935. 1988.