Assessing a speaker’s reliability falls short of providing an argument (A reply to Marius F. Jung)
Abstract: When confronted with a speaker’s assertion, her addressee can either fulfil the speaker’s informative intention and accept the new
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Millikan’s Teleosemantics and Communicative Agency
In Open Mind, edited by T. Metzinger & J. Windt, MIT Press. Abstract: Millikan’s teleosemantic approach constitutes a powerful framework
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Assessing radical embodiment
By Pierre Jacob. In Yann Coello & M. Fischer (eds.) Foundations of embodied cognition, Perceptual and Emotional Embodiment. Psychology Press.
Solving the Puzzle about Early Belief-Ascription
By Katharina A. Helming, Brent Strickland & Pierre Jacob Abstract: Developmental psychology currently faces a deep puzzle: most children before 4
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Noam Chomsky, What Kind of Creatures Are We? Columbia University Press, 2016, 200pp, $19.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-231-17596-8
By Pierre Jacob. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2016.04.23.
Empathy and the Disunity of Vicarious Experiences
By Pierre Jacob Abstract What makes one individual’s experience vicarious is that it is both similar to, and caused by, another’s psychological
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Making sense of early false-belief understanding
By Katharina A. Helming, Brent Strickland & Pierre Jacob. Abstract: We address the puzzle about early belief ascription: young children
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Embodied cognition, communication and the language faculty
By Pierre Jacob. In Language and Action in Cognitive Neuroscience. Edited by Yann Coello & Angela Bartolo
How from action-mirroring to intention-ascription?
By Pierre Jacob. Abstract: This paper is devoted to an assessment of the three-step model offered by Gallese and col-
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A non-mentalistic cause-based heuristic in human social evaluations
By Marine Buon, Pierre Jacob, Elsa Loissel & Emmanuel Dupoux. Abstract: in situations where an agent unintentionally causes harm to a victim,
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