The illusion of conscious will
- P. Carruthers
- PhilosophySynthese
- 28 July 2007
Wegner (Wegner, D. (2002). The illusion of conscious will. MIT Press) argues that conscious will is an illusion, citing a wide range of empirical evidence. I shall begin by surveying some of his…
The moral mind : How five sets of innate intuitions guide the development of many culture-specific virtues , and perhaps even modules
- December, P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, S. Stich
- Psychology
- 2007
1 Introduction Morality is one of the few topics in academe endowed with its own protective spell. A biologist is not blinded by her biological nature to the workings of biology. An economist is not…
The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought
- P. Carruthers
- Biology, Psychology
- 30 November 2006
The Case for Massively Modular Models of Mind and the Architecture of Animal Minds and the Cognitive Basis of Science are presented.
How we know our own minds: The relationship between mindreading and metacognition
- P. Carruthers
- PsychologyBehavioral and Brain Sciences
- 1 April 2009
Four different accounts of the relationship between third-person mindreading and first-person metacognition are compared and evaluated, and the “mindreading is prior” model is developed, showing how it predicts introspection for perceptual and quasi-perceptual mental events while claiming that metacognitive access to the authors' own attitudes always results from swift unconscious self-interpretation.
The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge
- P. Carruthers
- Psychology
- 15 September 2011
List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Mental Transparency Assumption 3. The ISA Theory: Foundations and Elaborations 4. Transparent Sensory Access to Attitudes?…
The cognitive functions of language
- P. Carruthers
- Psychology, PhilosophyBehavioral and Brain Sciences
- 1 December 2002
The idea is proposed that natural language is the medium for non-domain-specific thinking, serving to integrate the outputs of a variety of domain-specific conceptual faculties (or central-cognitive “quasi-modules”).
Meta-cognition in Animals: A Skeptical Look
- P. Carruthers
- Philosophy
- 1 February 2008
This paper examines the recent literature on meta-cognitive processes in non-human animals, arguing that in each case the data admit of a simpler, purely first-order, explanation. The topics…
Mindreading in Infancy
- P. Carruthers
- Psychology
- 1 April 2013
Various dichotomies have been proposed to characterize the nature and development of human mindreading capacities, especially in light of recent evidence of mindreading in infants aged 7 to 18…
Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory
- P. Carruthers
- Philosophy
- 2000
1. Assumptions, distinctions, and a map 2. Perspectival, subjective, and worldly facts 3. Explanatory gaps and qualia 4. Naturalisation and narrow content 5. First-order representationalism 6.…
The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought
- P. Carruthers
- Psychology, Biology
- 23 July 2015
The Conscious Mind as Marionette explores the nature of working memory, the evolution of Reflection, and the role of perception, attention, and consciousness in the development of consciousness.
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