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Looking for trouble: A common threat‐detection mechanism underlying pain, fear, and anxiety

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
I put forward a novel cognitive architecture for pain, fear, and anxiety, according to which these three capacities are underpinned by a common threat‐detection mechanism. This mechanism takes information about potential threats as input, assesses whether the threat is actual and, if it deems it is, outputs a threat representation.
Luca Barlassina
wiley   +1 more source

Human Rights Against Climate Risks and the Problem of Paralysis

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Richard Endörfer
wiley   +1 more source

The evolutionary psychology of the human pointing gesture

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
The human pointing gesture is a species‐unique and species‐universal form of communication that depends on humans' especially powerful forms of cooperative cognition and motivation. I have previously hypothesized that the pointing gesture evolved as a behavioral tool empowering individuals to better coordinate their interdependent collaborative ...
Michael Tomasello
wiley   +1 more source

Using Celebrity to Advance Equality

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
wiley   +1 more source

Conventions and morals—less distinct than you think: The unacknowledged role of effective consent

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
An influential account of moral judgment suggests there are two distinctive domains: that of conventional wrongs (a breach of social norms that can be changed/“modified” by an authority figure) and moral wrongs (that are viewed as breaching “natural law” and cannot be “modified”).
Edward B. Royzman, Samuel H. Borislow
wiley   +1 more source

Virtuous Deferral

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Virtue epistemology has long struggled with the “Creditability Dilemma”: how can knowledge gained through deference be creditable to the knower if it primarily depends on others’ cognitive work? We propose a novel solution by developing a telic account of doxastic deference as a distinctive kind of social‐epistemic performance.
J. Adam Carter, Jesper Kallestrup
wiley   +1 more source

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