Why Should We Know Our Own Minds?

How we know our own minds: the relationship between mindreading and metacognition.

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 of this target article in...

Do dolphins know their own minds?

Knowledge of one’s own states of mind is one of the varieties of self-knowledge. Do any nonhuman animals have the capacity for this variety of self-knowledge? The question is open to empirical inquiry, which is most often conducted with primate subjects. Research with a bottlenose dolphin gives some evidence for the capacity in a nonprimate taxon. I describe the research and evaluate the metaco...

Who should know about our genetic makeup and why?

Recent developments in biology have made it possible to acquire more and more precise information concerning our genetic makeup. Although the most far-reaching effects of these developments will probably be felt only after the Human Genome Project has been completed in a few years' time, scientists can even today identify a number of genetic disorders which may cause illness and disease in thei...

Do we own our bodies?

why we should write an article?

سخن سردبیر editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره سیزدهم، اردیبهشت 1393، 110-109       چرا باید مقاله بنویسیم؟ why we should write an article?     محسن رضائیان[1] m. rezaeian     دلایل بسیار زیادی برای نگارش یک مقاله وجود دارد. اگرچه، همیشه تمامی این دلایل جنبه مثبت ندارند و این امکان وجود دارد که تعداد بسیار اندکی از دانشمندان به دلایل منفی، اقدام به نگارش یک مقاله نمایند، تمرکز در این...