Mike Dacey
Biographic Data
| ID | 979822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Dacey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Dacey |
| SIGNATURE | DACEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bates College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0828-8072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The purpose of behavior and the meaning of thought
Demand Sharing and the Evolution of Morality
The shared project, but divergent views, of the Empiricist associationists
Despite its long period of dominance, the details of associationism as developed by the British Empiricists in the 18th and 19th centuries are often ignored or forgotten today. Perhaps as a result, modern understandings of Empiricist associationism are often oversimplified. In fact, there is no single core view that can be viewed as definitional, or even weaker, as characteristic, of the tradition. The actual views of associationists in this trad…
Evidence in Default
Comparative psychology experiments typically test a null statistical hypothesis against an alternative. Coupled with Morgan’s canon, this is often taken to imply that the model positing the simpler psychological capacity should be treated as a ‘default’ that must be ruled out before any other model can be accepted. It has been posited that this practice neglects evidence. I argue that the problem is deeper, including the way it structures the eva…
Anthropomorphism as Cognitive Bias
Philosophers and psychologists have long worried that the human tendency to anthropomorphize leads us to err in our understanding of nonhuman minds. This tendency, which I call intuitive anthropomorphism , is a heuristic used by our unconscious folk psychology to understand nonhuman animals. The dominant understanding of intuitive anthropomorphism underestimates its complexity. If we want to understand and control intuitive anthropomorphism, we m…
Rethinking associations in psychology
Associationism without associative links
Rethinking associations in psychology
Evidence in Default
Comparative psychology experiments typically test a null statistical hypothesis against an alternative. Coupled with Morgan’s canon, this is often taken to imply that the model positing the simpler psychological capacity should be treated as a ‘default’ that must be ruled out before any other model can be accepted. It has been posited that this practice neglects evidence. I argue that the problem is deeper, including the way it structures the eva…
Anthropomorphism as Cognitive Bias
Philosophers and psychologists have long worried that the human tendency to anthropomorphize leads us to err in our understanding of nonhuman minds. This tendency, which I call intuitive anthropomorphism , is a heuristic used by our unconscious folk psychology to understand nonhuman animals. The dominant understanding of intuitive anthropomorphism underestimates its complexity. If we want to understand and control intuitive anthropomorphism, we m…
Associationism without associative links
Associationism without associative links
Rethinking associations in psychology
Anthropomorphism as Cognitive Bias
Philosophers and psychologists have long worried that the human tendency to anthropomorphize leads us to err in our understanding of nonhuman minds. This tendency, which I call intuitive anthropomorphism , is a heuristic used by our unconscious folk psychology to understand nonhuman animals. The dominant understanding of intuitive anthropomorphism underestimates its complexity. If we want to understand and control intuitive anthropomorphism, we m…
Evidence in Default
Comparative psychology experiments typically test a null statistical hypothesis against an alternative. Coupled with Morgan’s canon, this is often taken to imply that the model positing the simpler psychological capacity should be treated as a ‘default’ that must be ruled out before any other model can be accepted. It has been posited that this practice neglects evidence. I argue that the problem is deeper, including the way it structures the eva…
The shared project, but divergent views, of the Empiricist associationists
Despite its long period of dominance, the details of associationism as developed by the British Empiricists in the 18th and 19th centuries are often ignored or forgotten today. Perhaps as a result, modern understandings of Empiricist associationism are often oversimplified. In fact, there is no single core view that can be viewed as definitional, or even weaker, as characteristic, of the tradition. The actual views of associationists in this trad…
The purpose of behavior and the meaning of thought
Demand Sharing and the Evolution of Morality
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Associative property (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)