An Essay on Belief and Acceptance
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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The illusion of conscious will
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Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory : A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments
Frans H. van Eemeren,Rob Grootendorst,A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans,J. Anthony Blair,Ralph H. Johnson,Erik C. W. Krabbe,Christian Plantin,Douglas Walton,C.A. Willard,John Woods,David Zarefsky +10 more
TL;DR: Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric and Toulmin's Model of Argumentation are discussed in this article, along with a discussion of fallacies, controversy, and discussion.
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The evolution and psychology of self-deception
TL;DR: This article argues that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent, and proposes that this is achieved through dissociations of mental processes, includingconscious versus unconscious memories, conscious versus unconscious attitudes, and automatic versus controlled processes.
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The comparative psychology of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition.
TL;DR: The results show that animals have functional features of or parallels to human conscious cognition, and this conclusion raises the difficult question of animal consciousness.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
TL;DR: To understand the central claims of evolutionary psychology the authors require an understanding of some key concepts in evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.
Journal ArticleDOI
The illusion of conscious will
TL;DR: It is argued that there is no such thing as conscious willing: conscious will is, indeed, an illusion, and can be filled by a plausible a priori claim about the causal role of anything deserving to be called ‘a will.’
BookDOI
Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory : A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments
Frans H. van Eemeren,Rob Grootendorst,A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans,J. Anthony Blair,Ralph H. Johnson,Erik C. W. Krabbe,Christian Plantin,Douglas Walton,C.A. Willard,John Woods,David Zarefsky +10 more
TL;DR: Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric and Toulmin's Model of Argumentation are discussed in this article, along with a discussion of fallacies, controversy, and discussion.
Journal ArticleDOI
The evolution and psychology of self-deception
TL;DR: This article argues that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent, and proposes that this is achieved through dissociations of mental processes, includingconscious versus unconscious memories, conscious versus unconscious attitudes, and automatic versus controlled processes.
Journal ArticleDOI
The comparative psychology of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition.
TL;DR: The results show that animals have functional features of or parallels to human conscious cognition, and this conclusion raises the difficult question of animal consciousness.