Thor Grünbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1140459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thor Grünbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thor |
| FAMILY NAME | Grünbaum |
| SIGNATURE | GRÜNBAUM T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6464-8098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Hedden's proof that machine learning fairness metrics are flawed
Brian Hedden, in a recent article in Philosophy and Public Affairs [Hedden Citation2021. “On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 49 (2): 209–231. https://doi.org/10.1111/papa.v49.2.], presented a thought experiment designed to probe the validity of the fairness metrics used in machine learning (ML). The thought experiment has caused a great stir, also within machine learning [Viganó et al. “People are Not …
Is the wandering mind a planning mind
Recent studies on mind‐wandering reveal its potential role in goal exploration and planning future actions. How to understand these explorative functions and their impact on planning remains unclear. Given certain conceptions of intentions and beliefs, the explorative functions of mind‐wandering could lead to regular reconsideration of one's intentions. However, this would be in tension with the stability of intentions central to rational plannin…
Responsibility for Forgetting To Do
Transparency and the Mindfulness Opacity Hypothesis
Many philosophers endorse the Transparency Thesis, the claim that by introspection one cannot become aware of one's experience. Recently, some authors have suggested that the Transparency Thesis is challenged by introspective states reached under mindfulness. We label this the Mindfulness Opacity Hypothesis. The present paper develops the hypothesis in important new ways. First, we motivate the hypothesis by drawing on recent clinical psychology …
Predictive Minds Can Be Humean Minds
The predictive processing literature contains at least two different versions of the framework with different theoretical resources at their disposal. One version appeals to so-called optimistic priors to explain agents’ motivation to act (call this optimistic predictive processing). A more recent version appeals to expected free energy minimization to explain how agents can decide between different action policies (call this preference predictiv…
Measurement Scepticism, Construct Validation, and Methodology of Well-Being Theorising
Precise measurements of well-being would be of profound societal importance. Yet, the sceptical worry that we cannot use social science instruments and tests to measure well-being is widely discussed by philosophers and scientists. A recent and interesting philosophical argument has pointed to the psychometric procedures of construct validation to address this sceptical worry. The argument has proposed that these procedures could warrant confiden…
A new cognitive model of long-term memory for intentions
The two visual systems hypothesis and contrastive underdetermination
Is Remembering to do a Special Kind of Memory
Sense of agency for movements
The feeling of agency hypothesis
Sensory imagination and narrative perspective
I argue that we can clarify an important form of focalization or narrative perspective by the structure of perspective in sensory imagination. Understanding focalization in this way enables us to see why one particular form of focalization has to do with the representation of perceptual perspective in the narrative world, and to explain why there is a strict functional distinction between voice and perceptual focalization, why all forms of percep…
Seeing what I am Doing
I argue against the view that an agent’s knowledge of her own current action cannot in any way rely on perception for its justification. Instead, I argue that when it comes to an agent’s knowledge of her own object-oriented intentional action, the agent’s belief about what she is doing is partly justified by her perception of the object of action. I proceed by first proposing an account of such actions according to which the agent’s knowledge is …
Consciousness and modality
Action between plot and discourse
In this article, I argue that the representation of simple, bodily action has the function of endowing the narrative sequence with a visualizing power. It makes the narrated scenes or situations ready for visualization by the reader or listener. By virtue of this visualizing power or disposition, these narrated actions disrupt the theoretical divisions, on the one hand, between the narrated story and the narrating discourse, and on the other hand…
Handling i narratologien, litteraturen og livet
Action in Narratology, Literature, and LifeIn this article I argue that the representation of simple, bodily action has the function of endowing the narrative sequence with a visualizing power: It makes the narrated scenes or situations ready for visualization by the reader or listener. By virtue of this visualizing power or disposition, these narrated actions disrupt the theoretical divisions, on the one hand, between the narrated story and the …
The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness
Self-consciousness is a topic of considerable importance to a variety of empirical and theoretical disciplines such as developmental and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This volume presents essays on self-consciousness by prominent psychologists, cognitive neurologists, and philosophers. Some of the topics included are the infants’ sense of self and others, theory of mind, phenomenology of embodiment, neural…
The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness
Self-consciousness is a topic of considerable importance to a variety of empirical and theoretical disciplines such as developmental and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This volume presents essays on self-consciousness by prominent psychologists, cognitive neurologists, and philosophers. Some of the topics included are the infants’ sense of self and others, theory of mind, phenomenology of embodiment, neural…
Handling i narratologien, litteraturen og livet
Action in Narratology, Literature, and LifeIn this article I argue that the representation of simple, bodily action has the function of endowing the narrative sequence with a visualizing power: It makes the narrated scenes or situations ready for visualization by the reader or listener. By virtue of this visualizing power or disposition, these narrated actions disrupt the theoretical divisions, on the one hand, between the narrated story and the …
Action between plot and discourse
In this article, I argue that the representation of simple, bodily action has the function of endowing the narrative sequence with a visualizing power. It makes the narrated scenes or situations ready for visualization by the reader or listener. By virtue of this visualizing power or disposition, these narrated actions disrupt the theoretical divisions, on the one hand, between the narrated story and the narrating discourse, and on the other hand…
Consciousness and modality
Seeing what I am Doing
I argue against the view that an agent’s knowledge of her own current action cannot in any way rely on perception for its justification. Instead, I argue that when it comes to an agent’s knowledge of her own object-oriented intentional action, the agent’s belief about what she is doing is partly justified by her perception of the object of action. I proceed by first proposing an account of such actions according to which the agent’s knowledge is …
Sensory imagination and narrative perspective
I argue that we can clarify an important form of focalization or narrative perspective by the structure of perspective in sensory imagination. Understanding focalization in this way enables us to see why one particular form of focalization has to do with the representation of perceptual perspective in the narrative world, and to explain why there is a strict functional distinction between voice and perceptual focalization, why all forms of percep…
The feeling of agency hypothesis
Sense of agency for movements
Is Remembering to do a Special Kind of Memory
A new cognitive model of long-term memory for intentions
The two visual systems hypothesis and contrastive underdetermination
Measurement Scepticism, Construct Validation, and Methodology of Well-Being Theorising
Precise measurements of well-being would be of profound societal importance. Yet, the sceptical worry that we cannot use social science instruments and tests to measure well-being is widely discussed by philosophers and scientists. A recent and interesting philosophical argument has pointed to the psychometric procedures of construct validation to address this sceptical worry. The argument has proposed that these procedures could warrant confiden…
Is the wandering mind a planning mind
Recent studies on mind‐wandering reveal its potential role in goal exploration and planning future actions. How to understand these explorative functions and their impact on planning remains unclear. Given certain conceptions of intentions and beliefs, the explorative functions of mind‐wandering could lead to regular reconsideration of one's intentions. However, this would be in tension with the stability of intentions central to rational plannin…
Responsibility for Forgetting To Do
Transparency and the Mindfulness Opacity Hypothesis
Many philosophers endorse the Transparency Thesis, the claim that by introspection one cannot become aware of one's experience. Recently, some authors have suggested that the Transparency Thesis is challenged by introspective states reached under mindfulness. We label this the Mindfulness Opacity Hypothesis. The present paper develops the hypothesis in important new ways. First, we motivate the hypothesis by drawing on recent clinical psychology …
Predictive Minds Can Be Humean Minds
The predictive processing literature contains at least two different versions of the framework with different theoretical resources at their disposal. One version appeals to so-called optimistic priors to explain agents’ motivation to act (call this optimistic predictive processing). A more recent version appeals to expected free energy minimization to explain how agents can decide between different action policies (call this preference predictiv…
On Hedden's proof that machine learning fairness metrics are flawed
Brian Hedden, in a recent article in Philosophy and Public Affairs [Hedden Citation2021. “On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 49 (2): 209–231. https://doi.org/10.1111/papa.v49.2.], presented a thought experiment designed to probe the validity of the fairness metrics used in machine learning (ML). The thought experiment has caused a great stir, also within machine learning [Viganó et al. “People are Not …
Philosophy (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Cognitive science (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works)