Carruthers' marvelous magical mindreading machine

Peter Carruthers

Four different accounts of the relationship between third-person mindreading and first-person metacognition are compared and evaluated. While three of them endorse the existence of introspection for propositional attitudes, the fourth (defended here) claims that our knowledge of our own attitudes results from turning our mindreading capacities upon ourselves. Section 1 introduces the four accou...

Marvelous applications of quantum dots.

BACKGROUND Nanotechnology is developed to convert research, prevention, and treatment of cancer through the novel diagnostic imaging techniques and therapies. In particular, the imaging nanotechnology has gained substantial momentum in recent years. The main progress in nanotechnology has led to the production of novel fluorescent probes named quantum dots (QDs). Quantum dots develop a revoluti...

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T is normally the precursor of action. We think fi rst, and then we act. Most models of creative thought and creative activity make a similar assumption. They assume that creative activity is preceded by, and is causally dependent upon, creative thought. This chapter, in contrast, argues for the reverse. It develops a model according to which creative thought is always preceded by, and causally...

The marvelous medical education machine or how medical education can be `unstuck' in time.

In this paper I will actually argue that medical education has become ‘‘stuck,’’ not only in time but also in space and content. It has become stuck in time because events considered to be educational largely occur through interactions that require the learners and the faculty to be simultaneously participating in these interactions. It has become stuck in space because its mechanisms of delive...