Kirsten H Blakey
Biographic Data
| ID | 97401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten H Blakey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten H |
| FAMILY NAME | Blakey |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKEY K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4347-6124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
Recent research in analytic epistemology suggests that one can form a rational belief without being in the position to identify and assess the evidence in its support. The reach of such unreflective responses to evidence has been explored in internalist and externalist theories of epistemic justification. It is also at work in defences of the rationality of non-human animals and young children. Unreflective responsiveness to evidence is in tensio…
Children's Developing Understanding of the Value of Disagreement for Learning
Do children and adults recognize the value of disagreement for learning? Across two preregistered studies (data collected 2023), 4- to 8-year-old children (N = 200, 101 females, mixed ethnicities) and adults (N = 200, 99 females, mixed ethnicities) were asked whether a protagonist would learn more by talking to someone who agrees or disagrees with them about different beliefs. Across studies, participants more often endorsed learning from someone…
Nonverbal Rationality? 2-Year-Old Children, Dogs, and Pigs Show Unselective Responses to Unreliability but to Different Degrees
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude nonhuman animals. This study assessed processing of undermining defeaters—a basic form of reflective thinking—in 36 two-year-old British children (13 female; Mage = 30.4 months, 98% White), 39 dogs (18 female), and 21 pigs (9 female), tested between 2022 and 2023. Informan…
In the jungle of cultural complexity
First paragraph: The jungle-an area overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation-is not unlike the concept of complexity within cultural evolutionary research. The notion of complexity has been used across many branches of cultural evolutionary research to describe and explain key concepts, such as cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) and "complex" cognition. However, whilst interest from diverse research areas has enriched the literature, i…
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In the jungle of cultural complexity
First paragraph: The jungle-an area overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation-is not unlike the concept of complexity within cultural evolutionary research. The notion of complexity has been used across many branches of cultural evolutionary research to describe and explain key concepts, such as cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) and "complex" cognition. However, whilst interest from diverse research areas has enriched the literature, i…
Children's Developing Understanding of the Value of Disagreement for Learning
Do children and adults recognize the value of disagreement for learning? Across two preregistered studies (data collected 2023), 4- to 8-year-old children (N = 200, 101 females, mixed ethnicities) and adults (N = 200, 99 females, mixed ethnicities) were asked whether a protagonist would learn more by talking to someone who agrees or disagrees with them about different beliefs. Across studies, participants more often endorsed learning from someone…
Nonverbal Rationality? 2-Year-Old Children, Dogs, and Pigs Show Unselective Responses to Unreliability but to Different Degrees
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude nonhuman animals. This study assessed processing of undermining defeaters—a basic form of reflective thinking—in 36 two-year-old British children (13 female; Mage = 30.4 months, 98% White), 39 dogs (18 female), and 21 pigs (9 female), tested between 2022 and 2023. Informan…
Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
Recent research in analytic epistemology suggests that one can form a rational belief without being in the position to identify and assess the evidence in its support. The reach of such unreflective responses to evidence has been explored in internalist and externalist theories of epistemic justification. It is also at work in defences of the rationality of non-human animals and young children. Unreflective responsiveness to evidence is in tensio…
Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Rationality (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Citation (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (1 works)