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Social interaction skills and theory of mind in young children.
Two studies explored relations between peer social skills and theory of mind in young children. In Study 1, a global teacher rating of social skills with peers, performance on a traditional… Expand
Schaffer on laws of nature
- A. Wilson
- Philosophy
- 1 July 2013
In ‘Quiddistic Knowledge’ (Schaffer in Philos Stud 123:1–32, 2005), Jonathan Schaffer argued influentially against the view that the laws of nature are metaphysically necessary. In this reply I aim… Expand
The Transference and the Zone of Proximal Development
- A. Wilson, L. Weinstein
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of the American Psychoanalytic…
- 1 February 1996
The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is discussed, a construct that, when introduced into psychoanalysis, advances understanding of the key clinical relationship between the intrapsychic and the… Expand
Metaphysical Causation
There is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my view, this is no coincidence: grounding and causation resemble one another because grounding is a type of… Expand
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Chance and Context
- T. Handfield, A. Wilson
- Mathematics
- 4 September 2014
The most familiar philosophical conception of objective chance renders determinism incompatible with non-trivial chances. This conception ‐ associated in particular with the work of David Lewis ‐ is… Expand
Everettian Confirmation and Sleeping Beauty
- A. Wilson
- Philosophy
- The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- 1 September 2014
Darren Bradley has recently appealed to observation selection effects to argue that conditionalization presents no special problem for Everettian quantum mechanics, and to defend the ‘halfer’ answer… Expand
Objective Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics
- A. Wilson
- The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- 1 December 2013
David Wallace has given a decision-theoretic argument for the Born Rule in the context of Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM). This approach promises to resolve some long-standing problems with… Expand
Linguistic validation of the DTSQ: Challenges with arabic and french for Algeria
- R. Dawsey, E. Sweeney, R. Plowright, A. Wilson, C. Bradley
- Psychology
- 1 May 2014
Rock pool fish use a combination of colour change and substrate choice to improve camouflage
- Samuel P Smithers, Rebecca C. Rooney, A. Wilson, M. Stevens
- Mathematics
- Animal Behaviour
- 1 October 2018
Camouflage can be achieved by both morphological (e.g. colour, brightness and pattern change) and behavioural (e.g. substrate preference) means. Much of the research on behavioural background… Expand
Chance and Temporal Asymmetry
- A. Wilson
- Mathematics
- 4 September 2014
Introduction: Chance and Temporal Asymmetry 1. Chance and Context 2. Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem 3. Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham 4. Proving the Principal Principle… Expand