The Philosophy of Psychology
it does seem to be quite strongly encapsulated. Thus when watching a good actor on the stage, for example, I cannot help but see ...
a given individual has cheated); or it may be able to operate upon infor- mation called up from long-term memory (as when I reca ...
Input systems can be very fast because of the limited source of their information. They do not incur the computational costs inv ...
Butat leastthereis acertaindegreeof consensusinthephilosophyof science that Duhem and Quine were right to maintain that scientiW ...
For one thing, it is quite possible for people to fail to appreciate the interconnections between their beliefs. So you may acqu ...
dedicated science module, which operates non-consciously in ordinary individuals to generate at least some of the sorts of infer ...
Figure 3.3 Modular central-systems and folk-psychological states conceptualised outputs of the perceptual systems; and some of w ...
of complex social signals. And it also seems likely to engage in surprisingly complex computations using beliefs as inputs – for ...
selected reading For those seeking an introduction to the Chomskian inspiration behind modern nativism see: Cook, 1988 and Radfo ...
4 Mind-reading We humans are highly social animals, unique in theXexibility with which we can adapt to novel patterns of interac ...
theory-like, knowledge also enables us to attribute mental states in order to explain behaviour, and to predict behaviour from w ...
four years), independent of diVerences of intelligence and social input. Yet, give or take the usual variation to be found in an ...
wrongly. Rather, the principle seems to be: if someone has been in percep- tual contact with the object, then they know everythi ...
may vary is by being more or lessradical– being more radical if it relies exclusively on simulation, and less radical to the ext ...
Figure 4.1 A simulation-based account of behaviour prediction provided by suggesting that in solving mind-reading problems one s ...
In the diagram the ‘pretend’-belief/desire generator feeds inputs corres- ponding to the beliefs and desires of the target of th ...
(such as a broken aeroplane wing, or a collapsed bridge) in an attempt to Wnd out why it incurred damage. In order to cope with ...
aware that this is what we have done; see Gazzaniga, 1994, for some remarkable examples of this in commissurotomised, ‘split-bra ...
representations of a 3-D world of tables, chairs, trees and so on. No one believes that any more; and introspectionist/simulatio ...
Gordon has constructed an ambitious and ingenious account of self- knowledge. But we do not think it will do. The problem here i ...
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