Blogs about: Folk Psychology
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Experimental <em>Political</em> Philosophy
Nicole Hassoun at Public Reason has posted an experiment on how people think about “meeting needs” (here). The results appear in an article that will be published Utilitas, though the expe… more →
Praeter Necessitatum
Singer on DDE during Katrina
wrote 5 days ago: SInger: The Vatican’s position is an application of what is known as “the doctrine of do … more →
Pat Churchland on Mind and Brain
wrote 1 week ago: Pat Churchland interviewed by Anthony Grayling for the BBC World Service. Churchland will be speakin … more →
Marnie (1964) - The Abusive Nature of Therapy
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wrote 3 weeks ago: One of my greatest bugbears in fiction is the concept of the “well-drawn character”. If we wants to … more →
Lycan on Machine Consciousness at RTP
wrote 1 month ago: Bill Lycan on qualia of artificial intelligences written for On the Human at the Humanities Center i … more →
Dissecting Norms
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wrote 2 months ago: Levi recently launched a couple new salvo’s in the debate over normativity (here, here, here a … more →
The Proper Study of Man(kind)
wrote 3 months ago: J. Bruner (1990): Acts of Meaning, Ch.1: The Proper Study of Man The Cognitive Revolution birthed th … more →
Eliminativism and the Real
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wrote 3 months ago: I’ve had a couple people ask me about my thoughts on eliminative materialism, and the response … more →
Folk Psychology as Narrative Practice - JCS
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wrote 4 months ago: http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/Hutto_editorial.pdf Dear Prof Mailbom Thank you for your piece on folk … more →
A rat once beat me at five-card stud
wrote 6 months ago: It’s early in the morning, so I’m grumpy, and the commenting system at the London Review … more →
On Folk I.T.
wrote 9 months ago: ‘Folk psychology’ and ‘folk physics’ are two conceptual frameworks in common … more →
Beware the Magnevonian Myth!
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wrote 9 months ago: In an earlier post, “Actions and events…” (at my FCA blog but also available here), I de … more →
Depressed people see the world more accurately
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wrote 1 year ago: I have heard this notion thrown about by otherwise reputable psychologists. I remain skeptical. It i … more →
pacing
wrote 1 year ago: For unreported reasons, Kate has indicated via Facebook sources that she’s moving slowly this … more →
Intelligent Science - My God makes no sense, that's what makes him God!
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wrote 1 year ago: I am going to have endless fun with this guy. Eric Kemp wrote a new post, this one with serious read … more →
"Happiness legthens life"
wrote 1 year ago: “The Happiness lengthen your Life” Happiness plays a key role on people’s health. … more →
Experimental Political Philosophy
wrote 1 year ago: Nicole Hassoun at Public Reason has posted an experiment on how people think about “meeting ne … more →
Recognizing genuine and fake smiles
wrote 1 year ago: The BBC Science and Nature page has published a test of recognizing genuine and fake smiles. Any int … more →
How might a runaway trolley save the academy?
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wrote 1 year ago: We academics are often accused of being so isolated from practical affairs of the world that none of … more →
Descartes, truth, and the ambivalence of "natural light"
wrote 1 year ago: Among Descartes’s letters is one in which he discusses the folk notion of truth. He doesn … more →
