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Scientific Realism and the Future Development of Science [PDF]
, 2019 Nickles (2016, 2017, forthcoming) raises many original objections against scientific realism. One of them holds that scientific realism originates from the end of history illusion.
Park, Seungbae
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A hard to read font reduces the causality bias [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2019 Previous studies have demonstrated that fluency affects judgment and decision-making. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the effect of perceptual fluency in a causal learning task that usually induces an illusion of causality in non ...
Marcos Díaz-Lago, Helena Matute
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Consciousness as Presence: An Exploration of the Illusion of Self [PDF]
, 2013 Buddhism teaches that ‘self’ as a substantial, enduring entity is an illusion. But for self to be an illusion there must be something in our experience that is misinterpreted as self. What is this?
Fink, Charles Kedric
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 Many neuroscientific experiments, based on monitoring brain activity, suggest that it is possible to predict the conscious intention/choice/decision of an agent before he himself knows that. Some neuroscientists and philosophers interpret the results of
Jonas Gonçalves Coelho
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On the Possibility of Hallucinations [PDF]
, 2020 Many take the possibility of hallucinations to imply that a relationalist account, according to which perceptual experiences are constituted by direct relations to ordinary mind-independent objects, is false.
Masrour, Farid
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Causal illusions in children when the outcome is frequent
PLOS ONE, 2017 Causal illusions occur when people perceive a causal relation between two events that are actually unrelated. One factor that has been shown to promote these mistaken beliefs is the outcome probability. Thus, people tend to overestimate the strength of a causal relation when the potential consequence (i.e.
María Manuela Moreno-Fernández +3 more
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, 2018 Humans can experience fake body parts as theirs just by simple visuo-tactile synchronous stimulation. This body-illusion is accompanied by a drift in the perception of the real limb towards the fake limb, suggesting an update of body estimation resulting
Cheng, Gordon +3 more
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Visual illusions: An interesting tool to investigate developmental dyslexia and autism spectrum disorder [PDF]
, 2016 A visual illusion refers to a percept that is different in some aspect from the physical stimulus. Illusions are a powerful non-invasive tool for understanding the neurobiology of vision, telling us, indirectly, how the brain processes visual stimuli ...
Facoetti, Andrea +2 more
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the alien hand syndrome [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualWillusionists claim that science has proven free will to be an illusion. We propose a thought experiment that demonstrates how this view leads to an absurd conclusion: the term "free will" can no longer be applied differently to cases where agents ...
Levin Sergei, Farina Mirko
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Individuals Who Believe in the Paranormal Expose Themselves to Biased Information and Develop More Causal Illusions than Nonbelievers in the Laboratory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In the reasoning literature, paranormal beliefs have been proposed to be linked to two related phenomena: a biased perception of causality and a biased information-sampling strategy (believers tend to test fewer hypotheses and prefer confirmatory ...
Fernando Blanco +2 more
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