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50The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and ReligionPhilosophical Psychology 28 (3): 452-465. 2015.Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind seeks to explain why it is difficult for liberals and conservatives to get along. His aim is not just explanatory but also prescriptive. Once we understand that the differences between disputants spring from distinct moral views held by equally sincere people, then we will no longer have reason for deep political animus. Conservatives and Liberals have distinct moral views and they understand human nature differently. He claims that these differences are best …Read more
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14The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with itTrans/Form/Ação 41 (s1): 119-152. 2018.: In this paper I argue that Velmens’ reflexive model of perceptual consciousness is useful for understanding the first-person perspective and sentience in animals. I then offer a defense of the proposal that ray-finned bony fish have a first-person perspective and sentience. This defense has two prongs. The first prong is presence of a substantial body of evidence that the neuroanatomy of the fish brain exhibits basic organizational principles associated with consciousness in mammals. These pri…Read more
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30Effects of hippocampal lesions on some operant visual discrimination tasksBehavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (3): 513-514. 1985.
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8Hippocampal function in learned and unlearned behaviorsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (3): 350-351. 1979.
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25Behavioral effects of neural grafts: Action still in search of a mechanismBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (1): 75-76. 1995.This commentary reviews data supporting circuitry reconstruction, replacement neurotransmitters, and trophic action as mechanisms whereby transplants promote recovery of function. Issue is taken with the thesis of Sinden et al. that adequate data exist to indicate that reconstruction of hippocampal circuitry damaged by hypoxia with CA1 transplants is a confirmed mechanism whereby these transplants produce recovery. Sinden et al.'s and Stein & Glasier's proposal that there is definitive evidence …Read more
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16The septo-hippocampal system and behavior: Difficulties in finding the exitBehavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3): 504-504. 1982.
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East Tennessee State UniversityRegular Faculty
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Mathematics |