Sam Wilkinson,Ben Alderson-Day
Sam Wilkinson
In this introduction we present the orthodox account of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), a number of worries for this account, and some potential responses open to its proponents. With some problems still remaining, we then introduce ...
Emar Maier
Emar Maier
I present a concrete DRT-based syntax and semantics for the representation of mental states in the style of Kamp (1990). This system is closely related to Recanati's (2012) Mental Files framework, but adds a crucial distinction between anch...
Sam Wilkinson
Sam Wilkinson
I suggest that we can think of delusional misidentification in terms of systematic errors in the management of mental files. I begin by sketching the orthodox "bottom-up" aetiology of delusional misidentification. I suggest that the orthodo...
Mental Graphs [0.03%]
心智图式
James Pryor
James Pryor
I argue that Frege Problems in thought are best modeled using graph-theoretic machinery; and that these problems can arise even when subjects associate all the same qualitative properties to the object they're thinking of twice. I compare t...
Christian Dahlman,Farhan Sarwar,Rasmus Bååth et al.
Christian Dahlman et al.
An argument that makes use of a generalization activates the prototype for the category used in the generalization. We conducted two experiments that investigated how the activation of the prototype affects the persuasiveness of the argumen...
Neil Levy
Neil Levy
The puzzle of resultant moral luck arises when we are disposed to think that an agent who caused a harm deserves to be blamed more than an otherwise identical agent who did not. One popular (but controversial) perspective on resultant moral...
Fiona Macpherson
Fiona Macpherson
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer
Can the general public learn to deal with risk and uncertainty, or do authorities need to steer people's choices in the right direction? Libertarian paternalists argue that results from psychological research show that our reasoning is syst...
Christopher Mole
Christopher Mole
Dead reckoning is a feature of the navigation behaviour shown by several creatures, including the desert ant. Recent work by C. Randy Gallistel shows that some connectionist models of dead reckoning face important challenges. These challeng...
Artifacts and essentialism [0.03%]
文物与本质主义
Susan A Gelman
Susan A Gelman
Psychological essentialism is an intuitive folk belief positing that certain categories have a non-obvious inner "essence" that gives rise to observable features. Although this belief most commonly characterizes natural kind categories, I a...