Dialogical Answerability and Autonomy Ascription

Dialogical Self , Dialogical Other : A Brief Overview of Dialogical Psychotherapy

The philosophy of Martin Buber as a philosopher of dialogue is well known to philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophical anthropology. His thoughts and how they have been applied to human counseling and psychotherapy are however, less well known. This article presents an overview of some of the modern and postmodern therapists and analysts who have drawn from his philosophy important ...

Belief Ascription and Context Dependence

This article considers the question whether belief ascriptions exhibit context dependence. I first distinguish two potential forms of context dependence in belief ascription. Propositional context dependence (PCD) concerns what the subject believes, whereas attitudinal context dependence (ACD) concerns what it is to believe a proposition. I then discuss three potential sources of PCD and two po...

Self and Dialogical Multiplication

Departing from a Lockean illustration in the context of the history of the notion of Self, this article presents a discussion on dialogism as an effort to overcome ethnocentric views of human psychological phenomena. Dialogical approaches in psychology focus tensions between different viewpoints in face of an object of social representation (Marková, 2006). It is assumed that the socio-cultural...

Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification

This paper discusses the extension of ViewGen, an algorithm derived for belief ascription, to the areas of speech acts, intensional object representation and metaphor. ViewGen represents the beliefs of agents as explicit, partitioned proposition-sets known as environments. Environments are convenient, even essential, for addressing important pragmatic issues of reasoning. The paper concentrates...

Knowledge Ascription by Grammatical Construction