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Seeing With the Two Systems of Thought—a Review of ‘Seeing Things As They Are: a Theory of Perception’ by John Searle (2015) [PDF]

, 2017
As so often in philosophy, the title not only lays down the battle line but exposes the author’s biases and mistakes, since whether or not we can make sense of the language game ‘Seeing things as they are’ and whether it’s possible to have a ...
Starks, Michael R.
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Belief Miner: A Methodology for Discovering Causal Beliefs and Causal Illusions from General Populations

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Causal belief is a cognitive practice that humans apply everyday to reason about cause and effect relations between factors, phenomena, or events. Like optical illusions, humans are prone to drawing causal relations between events that are only coincidental (i.e., causal illusions).
Shahreen Salim, Md Naimul Hoque, Klaus Mueller   +2 more
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A short educational intervention diminishes causal illusions and specific paranormal beliefs in undergraduates

PLOS ONE, 2018
Cognitive biases such as causal illusions have been related to paranormal and pseudoscientific beliefs and, thus, pose a real threat to the development of adequate critical thinking abilities. We aimed to reduce causal illusions in undergraduates by means of an educational intervention combining training-in-bias and training-in-rules techniques. First,
Itxaso Barberia, Elisabet Tubau, Helena Matute, Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro   +3 more
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Another cartoon portrait of the mind from the reductionist metaphysicians--a review of Peter Carruthers ‘The Opacity of Mind’ (2011) (review revised 2019) [PDF]

, 2019
Materialism, reductionism, behaviorism, functionalism, dynamic systems theory and computationalism are popular views, but they were shown by Wittgenstein to be incoherent.
Starks, Michael
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Over my fake body: body ownership illusions for studying the multisensory basis of own-body perception

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Which is my body and how do I distinguish it from the bodies of others, or from objects in the surrounding environment? The perception of our own body and more particularly our sense of body ownership is taken for granted.
Konstantina eKilteni, Konstantina eKilteni, Antonella eMaselli, Konrad eKoerding, Konrad eKoerding, Konrad eKoerding, Mel eSlater, Mel eSlater   +7 more
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A Master Wittgensteinian Surveys Human Nature -A Review of Human Nature-the Categorial Framework by PMS Hacker (2010) (review revised 2019) [PDF]

, 2019
Materialism, reductionism, behaviorism, functionalism, dynamic systems theory and computationalism are popular views, but they were shown by Wittgenstein and more recently by Searle to be incoherent.
Starks, Michael
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Pathological gamblers are more vulnerable to the illusion of control in a standard associative learning task

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
An illusion of control is said to occur when a person believes that he or she controls an outcome that is uncontrollable. Pathological gambling has often been related to an illusion of control, but the assessment of the illusion has generally used ...
Cristina eOrgaz, Ana eEstevez, Helena eMatute   +2 more
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Free Will: Real or Illusion - A Debate [PDF]

, 2020
Debate on free will with Christian List, Gregg Caruso, and Cory Clark.
Caruso, Gregg D., Clark, Cory J., List, Christian   +2 more
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Naïve Realism and the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception [PDF]

, 2018
Perceptual experience has representational content. My argument for this claim is an inference to the best explanation. The explanandum is cognitive penetration. In cognitive penetration, perceptual experiences are either causally influenced, or else are
Cavedon-Taylor, Dan
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Review of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology by Malcolm Budd 203p (1989)(review revised 2019) [PDF]

, 2019
A superb effort, but in my view Wittgenstein (i.e., philosophy or the descriptive psychology of higher order thought) is not completely understood by anyone, so we can hardly expect Budd, writing in the mid 80’s, without the modern dual systems of ...
Starks, Michael
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