Stephen P Stich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1048253 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen P Stich |
| NOMBRES | Stephen P |
| APELLIDO | Stich |
| FIRMA | STICH S P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 10 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Demographic Differences in Philosophical Intuition
Irrationality
Philosophy and Connectionist Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Recent research across the disciplines of cognitive science has exerted a profound influence on how many philosophers approach problems about the nature of mind. These philosophers, while attentive to traditional philosophical concerns, are increasingly drawing both theory and evidence from empirical disciplines — both the framing of the questions and how to resolve them. However, this familiarity with the results of cognitive science has led to …
Massive Modularity
The objective of the article is to discuss the evolution, hypothesis, and some the more prominent arguments for massive modularity (MM). MM is the hypothesis that the human mind is largely or entirely composed from a great many modules. Modules are functionally characterizable cognitive mechanisms that tend to possess several features, which include domain-specificity, informationally encapsulation, innateness, inaccessibility, shallow outputs, a…
If Folk Intuitions Vary, Then What
We have recently presented evidence for cross‐cultural variation in semantic intuitions and explored the implications of such variation for philosophical arguments that appeal to some theory of reference as a premise. Devitt (2011) and Ichikawa and colleagues (forthcoming) offer critical discussions of the experiment and the conclusions that can be drawn from it. In this response, we reiterate and clarify what we are really arguing for, and we sh…
The Innate Mind
Mindreading
This volume defends an integrated account of the psychological mechanisms underlying “mindreading,” the commonplace capacity to understand the mind. The authors maintain that it is, as commonsense would suggest, vital to distinguish between reading others’ minds and reading one’s own. In reading other minds, the imagination plays a central role. As a result, the authors begin with an explicit and systematic account of pretense and imagination whi…
The Blackwell guide to philosophy of mind
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
The Odd Couple
Evolutionary psychology and social constructionism are widely regarded as fundamentally irreconcilable approaches to the social sciences. Focusing on the study of the emotions, we argue that this appearance is mistaken. Much of what appears to be an empirical disagreement between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists over the universality or locality of emotional phenomena is actually generated by an implicit philosophical disput…
Deconstructing the Mind
The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the Philosophy of Science
The flight to reference is a widely-used strategy for resolving philosophical issues. The three steps in a flight to reference argument are: (1) offer a substantive account of the reference relation, (2) argue that a particular expression refers (or does not refer), and (3) draw a philosophical conclusion about something other than reference, like truth or ontology. It is our contention that whenever the flight to reference strategy is invoked, t…
The Virtues, Challenges and Implications of Connectionism
The Fragmentation of Reason
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluation. By Stephen P. Stich. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. x + 181. Price £20.25.) E. J . Lowe E. J . Lowe University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 166, January 1992, Pages 98–101, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220454 Published: 0…
Evaluating Cognitive Strategies
The Fragmentation of Reason
My four distinguished critics have made my task a bit easier by aiming almost all of their comments at two of the chapters in The Fragmentation of Reason. In those chapters I offer arguments against two widely accepted accounts of what it is for one cognitive strategy to be better than another. The first account gives pride of place to the analysis of our ordinary notions of cognitive evaluation-notions like justification. The second links cognit…
Building Belief
Minds, Brains and Science
Introduction 1. The Mind-Body Problem 2. Can Computers Think? 3. Cognitive Science 4. The Structure of Action 5. Prospects for the Social Sciences 6. The Freedom of the Will Suggestions for Further Reading Index
Beliefs and Subdoxastic States
It is argued that the intuitively sanctioned distinction between beliefs and non-belief states that play a role in the proximate causal history of beliefs is a distinction worth preserving in cognitive psychology. The intuitive distinction is argued to rest on a pair of features exhibited by beliefs but not by subdoxastic states. These are access to consciousness and inferential integration. Harman's view, which denies the distinction between bel…
The Odd Couple
Evolutionary psychology and social constructionism are widely regarded as fundamentally irreconcilable approaches to the social sciences. Focusing on the study of the emotions, we argue that this appearance is mistaken. Much of what appears to be an empirical disagreement between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists over the universality or locality of emotional phenomena is actually generated by an implicit philosophical disput…
Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning
This essay grows out of the conviction that recent work by psychologists studying human reasoning has important implications for a broad range of philosophical issues. To illustrate our thesis we focus on Nelson Goodman's elegant and influential attempt to “dissolve” the problem of induction. In the first section of the paper we sketch Goodman's account of what it is for a rule of inference to be justified. We then marshal empirical evidence indi…
Could man be an irrational animal
What Every Speaker Knows
If Folk Intuitions Vary, Then What
We have recently presented evidence for cross‐cultural variation in semantic intuitions and explored the implications of such variation for philosophical arguments that appeal to some theory of reference as a premise. Devitt (2011) and Ichikawa and colleagues (forthcoming) offer critical discussions of the experiment and the conclusions that can be drawn from it. In this response, we reiterate and clarify what we are really arguing for, and we sh…
The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the Philosophy of Science
The flight to reference is a widely-used strategy for resolving philosophical issues. The three steps in a flight to reference argument are: (1) offer a substantive account of the reference relation, (2) argue that a particular expression refers (or does not refer), and (3) draw a philosophical conclusion about something other than reference, like truth or ontology. It is our contention that whenever the flight to reference strategy is invoked, t…
Between Chomskian Rationalism and Popperian Empiricism
Minds, Brains and Science
Introduction 1. The Mind-Body Problem 2. Can Computers Think? 3. Cognitive Science 4. The Structure of Action 5. Prospects for the Social Sciences 6. The Freedom of the Will Suggestions for Further Reading Index
Deconstructing the Mind
Building Belief
From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science
The Computer Revolution in Philosophy
Harvester Studies in Cognitive Science is a new series which will explore the nature of knowledge by way of a distinctive theoretical approach one that takes account of the complex structures and interacting processes that make thought and action possible.Intelligence can be studied from the point of view of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, pedagogy and artificial intelligence, and all these different emphases will be represented within the s…
Logical Truth Revisited
What Every Speaker Knows
The Underlying Reality of Language and its Philosophical Import
Logical form and natural language
Innate Ideas
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Innate Ideas. Edited by Stephen P. Stich. (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1975. Pp. x+222) Peter Smith Peter Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 104, July 1976, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219027 Published: 01 July 1976
Beliefs and Subdoxastic States
It is argued that the intuitively sanctioned distinction between beliefs and non-belief states that play a role in the proximate causal history of beliefs is a distinction worth preserving in cognitive psychology. The intuitive distinction is argued to rest on a pair of features exhibited by beliefs but not by subdoxastic states. These are access to consciousness and inferential integration. Harman's view, which denies the distinction between bel…
Between Chomskian Rationalism and Popperian Empiricism
Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning
This essay grows out of the conviction that recent work by psychologists studying human reasoning has important implications for a broad range of philosophical issues. To illustrate our thesis we focus on Nelson Goodman's elegant and influential attempt to “dissolve” the problem of induction. In the first section of the paper we sketch Goodman's account of what it is for a rule of inference to be justified. We then marshal empirical evidence indi…
The Computer Revolution in Philosophy
Harvester Studies in Cognitive Science is a new series which will explore the nature of knowledge by way of a distinctive theoretical approach one that takes account of the complex structures and interacting processes that make thought and action possible.Intelligence can be studied from the point of view of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, pedagogy and artificial intelligence, and all these different emphases will be represented within the s…
Can Popperians Learn to Talk
Philosophical Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence
Relativism, Rationality and the Limits of Intentional Description
Could man be an irrational animal
From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science
The Rewards and Risks of Studying Genes
format-a book that gives the reader a taste of scientific background, a dollop of recent history, and a healthy dose of ominous prediction about the horrid things that might happen and the important opportunities that might be missed unless we regulate, or restrict, or redirect genetic engineering and the self-interested entrepreneurs who control it. More recently a spate of books in the Gee Whiz format has joined the list. Like the Greed and Glo…
From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science
Minds, Brains and Science
Introduction 1. The Mind-Body Problem 2. Can Computers Think? 3. Cognitive Science 4. The Structure of Action 5. Prospects for the Social Sciences 6. The Freedom of the Will Suggestions for Further Reading Index
Building Belief
Evaluating Cognitive Strategies
The Fragmentation of Reason
My four distinguished critics have made my task a bit easier by aiming almost all of their comments at two of the chapters in The Fragmentation of Reason. In those chapters I offer arguments against two widely accepted accounts of what it is for one cognitive strategy to be better than another. The first account gives pride of place to the analysis of our ordinary notions of cognitive evaluation-notions like justification. The second links cognit…
The Fragmentation of Reason
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluation. By Stephen P. Stich. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. x + 181. Price £20.25.) E. J . Lowe E. J . Lowe University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 166, January 1992, Pages 98–101, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220454 Published: 0…
The Virtues, Challenges and Implications of Connectionism
The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the Philosophy of Science
The flight to reference is a widely-used strategy for resolving philosophical issues. The three steps in a flight to reference argument are: (1) offer a substantive account of the reference relation, (2) argue that a particular expression refers (or does not refer), and (3) draw a philosophical conclusion about something other than reference, like truth or ontology. It is our contention that whenever the flight to reference strategy is invoked, t…
The Odd Couple
Evolutionary psychology and social constructionism are widely regarded as fundamentally irreconcilable approaches to the social sciences. Focusing on the study of the emotions, we argue that this appearance is mistaken. Much of what appears to be an empirical disagreement between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists over the universality or locality of emotional phenomena is actually generated by an implicit philosophical disput…
Deconstructing the Mind
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