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Emerson or Hawthorne?

open access: yes, 2012
This paper focuses on Ralph Waldo Emerson\u27s influence on prominent American writers. Specifically, the paper examines themes that Emerson emphasizes in Self-Reliance and Nature and how those themes are central to selected works by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Bly, Lauren M.
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Getting Lost ‘Into the Wild’: Exploring the Role of Narrative Transportation in the Experiential Consumption of Movies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Although it is obvious that consumers enjoy watching movies for many reasons that range from mere short-term entertainment to the complete personal immersion into the movie narrative, a full understanding of the experiential consumption of movies and its
Batat, Wided, Wohlfeil, Markus
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A Model of Noisy Introspection [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents a theoretical model of noisy introspection designed to explain behavior in games played only once. The equilibrium determines layers of beliefs about others' beliefs about ..., etc., but allows for surprises by relaxing the ...
Charles A. Holt, Jacob K. Goeree
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A reasoning approach to introspection and unawareness [PDF]

open access: yes
We introduce and study a unified reasoning process which allows to represent the beliefs of both a fully rational agent and of an unaware one. This reasoning process provides natural properties to introspection and unawareness.
Gossner Olivier, Tsakas Elias
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The art of chicken sexing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Expert chick sexers are able to quickly and reliably determine the sex of day-old chicks on the basis of very subtle perceptual cues. They claim that in many cases they have no idea how they make their decisions. They just look at the rear end of a chick,
Horsey, Richard
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Robot Introspection with Bayesian Nonparametric Vector Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models

open access: yes, 2018
Robot introspection, as opposed to anomaly detection typical in process monitoring, helps a robot understand what it is doing at all times. A robot should be able to identify its actions not only when failure or novelty occurs, but also as it executes ...
Guan, Yisheng   +4 more
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The Evil Demon Inside [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper examines how new evil demon problems could arise for our access to the internal world of our own minds. I start by arguing that the internalist/externalist debate in epistemology has been widely misconstrued---we need to reconfigure the ...
Silins, Nicholas
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Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS): Open-Source Code [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
This is computer code for analyzing the Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS) data files for the R Statistical Environment open source ...
Mayer, John D.
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The Distinction between a ‘Mental State’ and ‘Our Belief about It’ in the Thought of Armstrong and Shoemaker [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations
Introspection is a method of accessing the contents of the mind. The nature of this access can be categorized into two main perspectives: the first group relates to explanations that consider introspection to be similar to perception, with the difference
Seyyed Mostafa Hosseini   +2 more
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The Limits of Thought and the Mind-Body Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This paper gives an account of Colin McGinn's essay: "Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?". McGinn's answer to his own essay title is that the problem is forever beyond us due to the particular nature of our cognitive abilities.The present author offers ...
de Leon, David
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