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Decomposing Cognitive Processes in the mPFC during Self-Thinking. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Neurosci
Levorsen M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Planning for Mistakes

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should you decide what to do? Orthodox decision theory offers attractively simple advice: Do whatever has the most expected value. In what follows, I argue that this is not always good advice for agents like us. Agents like us are susceptible to error: Sometimes, we do not succeed at doing what is recommended by the advice we are trying to
Sam Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge and Argument

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that knowledge plays a distinctive role in psychological explanation that weaker epistemic states cannot because it is robust in the face of counterevidence in a way that they are not. Being robust in the face of counterevidence makes your belief robust in the face of counterargument.
Spencer Paulson
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of mentoring on self-reflection and competence in Final year medical students' internal medicine rotation. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Heckmann MB   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perceiving Particulars

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causalists contend that you see a specific object (rather than a lookalike, or no object at all) because that object sits at the beginning of an appropriate causal chain that terminates in your visual experience. We argue that neither standard causalists nor their non‐causalist opponents can adequately accommodate a striking asymmetry between ...
Dominic Alford‐Duguid, Umrao Sethi
wiley   +1 more source

Reopening the Dutch Book

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTProbabilism is the thesis that the degrees of belief of rational agents behave like Kolmogorovian probabilities. There are quite different lines of argument for probabilism in the literature, including Dutch book arguments, arguments based on representation theorems, and epistemic utility arguments. This paper focusses on the Dutch book line of
Nicholas J. J. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

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