What’s so naïve about naïve realism?

Naïve realism without disjunctivism about experience.

I argue that the possibility of non-perceptual experience need not compel a naïve realist to adopt a disjunctive conception of experience. Instead, they can maintain that the nature of perceptual and hallucinatory experience is the same, while still claiming that perceptual experience is presentational of the objects of perception. On such a view the difference between perceptual and non-percep...

The representation of naïve knowledge about physics

Human beings rely on visual information to learn about the environment around them, construct representations of the world, and control their actions. By and large, humans are remarkably accurate when it comes to complex motor actions such as catching a baseball or hitting a target. In fact, the perceptual skills underlying such actions are not easily understood as they are far superior to any ...

First-year medical students' naïve beliefs about respiratory physiology.

The present study explored the nature and frequency of physiology naïve beliefs by investigating novices' understanding of the respiratory system. Previous studies have shown considerable misconceptions related to physiology but focused mostly on specific physiological processes of normal respiration. Little is known about novices' broader understanding of breathing in a clinical context. Our s...

Naïve Cartography: How Intuitions about Display Configuration Can Hurt Performance

Resetting Human Naïve Pluripotency

The rodent naive pluripotent state is believed to represent the preimplantation inner cell mass state of the developing blastocyst and can derive self-renewing pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in vitro. Nevertheless, human ESCs exhibit epigenetic, metabolic, and transcriptomic characteristics more akin to primed pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) derived from the postimplantation epiblast. Un...