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Fred Adams
Researcher at University of Delaware
Publications - 85
Citations - 2601
Fred Adams is an academic researcher from University of Delaware. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Action (philosophy). The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 85 publications receiving 2450 citations. Previous affiliations of Fred Adams include University of Wisconsin-Madison & Central Michigan University.
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The Bounds of Cognition
Fred Adams,Kenneth Aizawa +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that transcranial cognition may be both a logical and a nomological possibility, but no case has been made for its current existence, and they defend a form of contingent intracranialism about the cognitive.
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Defending the bounds of cognition
Fred Adams,Kenneth Aizawa +1 more
TL;DR: Clark as mentioned in this paper argued that the nature of the processes internal to a pencil, Rolodex, computer, cell phone, piece of string, or whatever, has nothing to do with whether that thing carries out cognitive processing.
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Intentional action in ordinary language: core concept or pragmatic understanding?
Fred Adams,Annie Steadman +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that people are more inclined to see an action as intentional, even when not intended, if A was perceived as causing a harm (e.g. harming the environment).
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Why the mind is still in the head
Fred Adams,Kenneth Aizawa +1 more
TL;DR: This paper draws attention to two kinds of mistakes in the radical hypothesis that human cognitive processes extend from the brain into the tools humans use, and shows just how pervasive these mistakes are.