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    Mental reflexivity, or metamentation -- a mind thinking about its own thoughts -- underpins reflexive consciousness, deliberation, self-evaluation, moral judgment, the ability to think ahead, and much more. Yet relatively little in philosophy or psychology has been written about what metamentation actually is, or about why and how it came about. In this book, Radu Bogdan proposes that humans think reflexively because they interpret each other's minds in social contexts of cooperation, communicat…Read more
  •  42
    Interpreting Minds
    Bradford. 2003.
    Unlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretation as a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, Radu J. Bogdan sets out to establish a new evolutionary and practical view of interpretation. According to Bogdan, the ability to interpret others' mental states has evolved under communal, political, and epistemic pressures to enable us to cope with the impact of other organisms on our own goals in the competition to survive. Interpretation evolved among…Read more
  •  5
    Information and Semantic Cognition: An Ontological Account
    Mind and Language 3 (2): 81-122. 2007.
  • Replies to Commentators
    Mind and Language 3 (2): 145-151. 2007.
  •  1
    2. What Do We Need Concepts For?
    Mind and Language 4 (1‐2): 17-23. 2007.
  • Roderick M. Chisholm
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (1): 186-186. 1986.
  • Llkka Niiniluoto
    In Radu J. Bogdan & Ilkka Niiniluoto (eds.), Logic, language, and probability, D. Reidel Pub. Co.. 1973.
  •  32
    A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971.
  •  17
    Patrick Suppes (edited book)
    Reidel. 1979.
    The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Fests…Read more
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    The theme of this essay is rather simple, though its demonstration is not. It is that humans think reflexively or metamentally because -- and often in the forms in which -- they interpret each other. In this essay ‘metamental’ means ‘about mental’ and ‘reflexive mind’ means ‘a mind thinking about its own thoughts.’ To think reflexively or metamentally is to think about thoughts deliberately and explicitly, as in thinking that my current thoughts about metamentation are right. Thinking about thou…Read more
  •  57
    Logic, language, and probability (edited book)
    D. Reidel Pub. Co.. 1973.
    AN INTENSIONAL INTERPRETATION OF TRUTH-VALUES* 1. Introduction In a profound and seminal paper of 1956 'Begrundung einer strengen Implikation', JSL),...
  • Logică, pe înțelesul tuturor
    Editura enciclopedică română. 1974.
  •  13
    Reviews (review)
    Theory and Decision 5 (2): 243-247. 1974.
  •  15
    Reviews (review)
    with Hermann Vetter, F. Gregory Hayden, Robert H. Puckett, and Mario Bunge
    Theory and Decision 6 (1): 103-120. 1975.
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    This book explores the evolution of the mental competence for self-reflection: why it evolved, under what selection pressures, in what environments, out of what precursors, and with what mental resources. Integrating evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives, Radu J. Bogdan argues that the competence for self-reflection, uniquely human and initially autobiographical, evolved under strong and persistent sociocultural and political pressures on the developing minds of older child…Read more
  •  1
    Local Induction
    Philosophy of Science 44 (1): 173-177. 1977.
  •  79
    Introduction
    Synthese 159 (2): 149-150. 2007.
  • The Pragmatics of Knowledge
    Dissertation, Stanford University. 1980.
    This essay focuses critically on two major targets, called representationalism and naturalism, whose assumptions and conclusions are examined in almost each chapter, relative to the topic of interest. Both views are shown to ignore cognitive agency and the pragmatics of an agent's current cognition. In the search for objective and infallible guarantees of knowledge both views end up being "subsystemic epistemologies". In contrast, the general message of this essay is that we need an agent-orient…Read more
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    In this paper, I explore the effects of religious denomination and patterns of church-going on the construction of political values for high-school students. I argue that religion plays a role in the formation of political attitudes among teenagers and it influences their political participation. I examine whether this relationship is constructed along denominational lines. From a theoretical perspective, previous research heralded the compatibility between Western Christianity and the democrati…Read more
  •  37
    L'Histoire des Sciences Cognitives
    In Lucien Sfez (ed.), Dictionnaire critique de la communication, Puf. pp. 870-878. 1993.
    In spite of of its name, cognitive science is not yet a fully coherent and integrated science but rather a fairly loose coalition of largely independent disciplines, some descriptive and empirical (cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive anthropology), some speculative and foundational (philosophy), others both speculative and applied (artificial intelligence). What brought these disciplines together and still sustains their interdisciplinary cooperation is the dedication to e…Read more
  •  30
    Almost everybody believes, but nobody has conclusively shown, that common sense psychology is a descriptive body of knowledge about the mind, the way physics is about elementary particles or medicine about bodily conditions. Of course, common sense psychology helps itself to many notions about the mind. This does not show that common sense psychology is about the mind. Physics also helps itself to plenty of mathematical notions, without being about mathematical entities and relations. Employment…Read more
  •  3
    The importance of belief
    In Belief: Form, Content, and Function, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--16. 1986.
  • Memory as Window on the Mind
    In Alexandru Manafu (ed.), The Prospects for Fusion Emergence, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 313. 2015.
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    Interpreting Minds
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 737-740. 2000.
    I have a confession to make. In general, I do not like discussions concerning folk psychology. I have never quite understood what the fuss was about. Radu Bogdan has changed my mind. His recent book, Interpreting Minds, explains why folk psychology is important and how we should understand it and does so in a plausible way. For these two reasons, philosophy should welcome his monograph wholeheartedly.
  •  2
    The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science
    with John D. Greenwood, Scott M. Christensen, and Dale R. Turner
    Philosophical Quarterly 44 (175): 246-251. 1994.