Philosophers’ Carnival #155
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Graded Propositional Knowledge
In Knowledge and Practical Interests, Jason Stanley (2005) provides a number of examples to show that propositional knowledge is not gradable. Consider the following two sentences: (a1) Sean knows that Obama is President better than Meredith does. (a2) Alyssa knows that Obama is President better than Philip knows that Clinton …
Introspective Attention, Part 2
The final part, though I might add something about some issues that have arisen in comments. Anyway, here’s the idea to be unpacked: Introspective and perceptual attention rely in the same way on visual experience, namely the coupling of vision to cognition
Introspective Attention: Transparency or Acquaintance? Part 1
Given that the school year at CMU starts today, this will be my last post (split in two). Thanks to readers for very helpful discussion in the previous posts. Part 2 will be published late Tuesday or Wednesday. [Update: teaching classes today, so will be slower to respond, though I …
Self-Monitoring and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
The positive symptoms of schizophrenia present one striking and debilitating aspect of the disorder and include delusions of control (where subjects take actions they perform to be done by others), thought insertion (where subjects have thoughts that they attribute as belonging to others), and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), where subjects …
Impressions of responsibility in cases of filicide
Hi all following up on a blog post here a while back I’ve put together a survey on impressions of responsibility in cases of filicide. If you’d like to take part see the below advertisement cheers Glenn
Philosophy in the Sea of Science
Thanks to John for the invitation to post in the Brains blog and for his detailed introduction and overview of my work. I also want to commend him for the many exciting developments since he took over from Gualtiero’s admirable tenure as founder. Here are the topics I hope to …