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Showing 1 to 20 of 167 for “"intuitions"”.
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Cartesian intuitions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1994.
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Intuitions and adequate philosophical solutions
… relies on intuition; among other things, intuitions are used to discover problems and intuitions are used to provide solutions to those problems. I provide an analysis of three kinds of philosophical problems and their solutions. "No principle" problems are rather basic; roughly this is …
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Emotions, Intuitions and Risk Perception in Critical Care
<p>The theory of decision-making as it applies to bioethics and healthcare assumes a rational decision maker: someone who knows all his alternatives, has clear preferences, can rank and weigh risks and benefits of an intervention, and always acts in his own best interests. However, the growing body …
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Adaptive Intuitions in Complex Media Environments Shape Belief in Misinformation
… to show that these differences are driven by intuitions, which correspond to Bayesian priors, about the veracity of the content -- intuitions which then spill over into new environments. The results, when paired with the observation that the news consumed by most Americans is overwhelmingly …
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The significance of intuitions of contingency for the mind-body problem
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.
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Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change
… learners must abandon their prior scientific intuitions and replace them with scientific concepts. However, a growing body of research shows that scientific intuitions persist, even among science experts. This suggests that naïve intuitions are suppressed, not supplanted, as learners gain …
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Are intuitions (of lay-speakers) relevant for determining which theory of reference is right?
Intuitsioonide kasutamist filosoofilise argumentatsiooni tõendusmaterjalina on kritiseeritud ning ühe vastusena sellele kriitikale on väidetud, et konkreetsetes kõnealustes argumentatsioonides ei ole intuitsioone üldse kasutatud. Ma näitan, et intuitsioonid on nendel kordadel siiski kasutust …
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The linguistic exploration of children : playing with language through computer programming
Children's intuitions about the grammar of their language are resources which children can use to leverage understanding of formal grammatical concepts. In this thesis, I demonstrate how the Logo programming environment can be used to encourage and support children's intuitive explorations in the …
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A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism
… are concerned with the epistemic status of moral intuitions. The first article argues in favour of moderate moral intuitionism, the view that while any successful moral epistemology must be intuitionist to at least some extent, it must also take intuitions to be fallible. This is accomplished by …
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Syllabification and Visual Word Segmentation in Spanish–English Bilinguals
This dissertation investigates intuitions about Spanish syllable structure and whether or not word segmentation strategies are affected by these syllabic intuitions. The study utilizes monolingual Spanish speakers, L1 Spanish speakers whoare L2 learners of English and L1 English speakers who are L2 …
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The Intuition of Knowing: Its Biological Function and Natural Triggering-Conditions
… why the cognitive mechanism that produces our intuitions of knowing evolved and was maintained (by natural selection), i.e., identifying the ‘teleonomic function’ of that cognitive mechanism. Also, it will involve predicting, on the basis of this teleonomic function, the triggering-conditions …
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Kant on the Progression of Representation
… around a question concerning whether, for Kant, intuitions can play their role of presenting objects to the mind without the discursive activity of the intellect. According to 'conceptualist' interpretations, intuitions depend for their generation on the activity of the understanding. According …
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Half-Lit: Georgetown University Center for the Study of Light
… developing a rich internal vocabular and set of intuitions, and then see what architecture emerges from these intuitions.
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Methodology and Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind
… decision aboutthe importance of our naïve intuitions concerning the mind and the material world. Iclaim that standard anti-reductive argumentative strategies rest upon systematicallydeceptive and underdeveloped intuitions. As a result, we should reject these intuitionsand forms of …
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… in nature, reflecting on notions such as moral intuitions, universalism, consistency and coherence. It demonstrates that moral illusions might exist and offers a method to discover such moral illusions. The second part turns to normative ethics, dealing with principles of welfare, justice and …
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Normativity and Representation in Kant's Theory of Cognition
… under normative constraint, schemata enable intuitions to represent their objects as bearing ‘kind’-properties. Chapter 4 discharges the assumption that schemata are rules for synthesis of imagination, through close reading and criticism of alternative interpretations. Chapter 5 examines …
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Perceiving Temporal Structure
… results and strongly held introspective intuitions about experience. I do not directly argue against the matching thesis, but I show how we can improve upon existing experimentally-based arguments against it. I also show how its critics can explain (rather than simply disregard or deny) …
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CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC PROCESSES IN MORAL DECISION-MAKING
… judgments are produced by affective intuitions while consequentialist judgements usually are the product of cognitive deliberation. Greene and colleagues (2001, 2004) have backed up this claim with empirical evidence coming from fMRI studies, cognitive load studies, and pathology. …
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Improving Introductory Computer Science Education with DRaCO
… Our new pedagogy capitalizes on the algorithmic intuitions of novice students and provides a tool for students to externalize their intuitions using techniques they are already familiar with, rather than with the syntax of a specific programming language. We validate the effectiveness of our new …
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