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An Essay on Belief and Acceptance

T. E. Wilkerson
- 01 Jan 1994 - 
- Vol. 35, Iss: 1, pp 43-44
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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.
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The illusion of conscious will

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The evolution and psychology of self-deception

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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.’
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.
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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.