Category: Belief

Symposium on Hayley Clatterbuck, “Chimpanzee Mindreading and the Value of Parsimonious Mental Models”

animal cognition / Belief / Mind & Language Symposia / Mindreading / Models / Social Cognition

I’m happy to initiate our latest Mind & Language symposium on  Hayley Clatterbucks’s  “Chimpanzee Mindreading and the Value of Parsimonious Mental Models,” from the journal’s September 2015 issue, with commentaries by Cameron Buckner (Houston), Shannon Spaulding (Oklahoma), and Jennifer Vonk (Oakland). There has been a long-standing debate about whether apes, dogs, corvids, and possibly other animals have the capacity to engage in …

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Yes, We Can: Get from the State View to the Content View

Belief / Concepts / Content / Epistemology / Eva Schmidt: Modest Nonconceptualism / nonconceptual content / perception / Philosophy of Mind

In my previous post, I referred several times to the state view/content view distinction. As has been argued by authors such as Byrne (2005) or Crowther (2006), the distinction is problematic for nonconceptualists to the extent that they want to make a claim about perceptual content. For central pro-nonconceptualist arguments …

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#MindsOnline2015, Session 3: Belief and Reasoning

Belief / Epistemology / Philosophy of Mind

The third session of the Minds Online conference has begun! It is on the theme of Belief and Reasoning, and includes the following papers: Ram Neta (UNC) “Basing Is Conjuring” (KEYNOTE) Grace Helton (University of Antwerp): “The Revisability View of Belief” Commentators: Michael Bishop and Neil Van Leeuwen Jack Marley-Payne (MIT): “Against Intellectualist Theories of …

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#MindsOnline 2015, Session 1: Social Cognition

animal cognition / Belief / Cognition / Ethics / Experimental Philosophy / Folk Psychology / Language and Communication / Mindreading / Minds Online Conference / perception / Psychology / Social Cognition

The Minds Online conference has begun, and our first session will be open for discussion through September 4. It is on the theme of Social Cognition, and includes the following papers: Tony Jack and Jared Friedman (Case Western Reserve): “Mapping cognitive structure onto the landscape of philosophical debate: an empirical framework …

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