Philosophers and psychologists have traditionally understood “theory of mind” as a human capacity for understanding and predicting human behavior based on the attribution of unobservable mental states, like beliefs and desires. The classical model views the human “mind reader” as a kind of scientist, formulating hypotheses about the unobservable causes of the behavior of her fellows, and then t...

Both research and advertising practice support the proposition that endorsers, particularly celebrity endorsers, are effective in persuading consumers to buy products. Unfortunately, our understanding doesn’t go far beyond that point. The existing literature presents a number of factors (e.g., expertise, attractiveness) that increase persuasion under certain circumstances, but the relative impo...

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To the question “What normative ethical theory does early Confucianism best represent?” researchers in the history of early Confucian philosophy respond with more than half a dozen different answers. They include sentimentalism, amoralism, pragmatism, Kantianism, Aristotelian virtue theory, care ethics, and role ethics. The lack of consensus is concerning, as three considerations make clear. Fi...

We reply to recent papers by John Turri and Ben Bronner, who criticise the dispositionalised Nozickian tracking account we discuss in “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know.” We argue that the account we suggested can handle the problems raised by Turri and Bronner. In the course of responding to Turri and Bronner’s objections, we draw three general lessons for theories of epistemic dispositions: that...

für Naturforschung in cooperation with the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Dieses Werk wurde im Jahr 2013 vom Verlag Zeitschrift für Naturforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. digitalisiert und unter folgender Lizenz veröffentlicht: Creative Commons Namen...

This study investigates factors affecting the degree of novice physics students’ application of the naı̈ve impetus theory. Six hundred and fourteen first-year university engineering physics students answered the Force Concept Inventory as a pre-test for their calculus-based course. We examined the degree to which students consistently applied the naı̈ve impetus theory across different items. We u...

The study of free-space quantum communications requires tools from information theory, optics, and turbulence theory. Here we combine these to bound the ultimate rates for key entanglement distribution through a link, where propagation systems is generally affected by diffraction, atmospheric extinction, turbulence, pointing errors, background noise. Besides establishing limits, also show that ...

While psychology and communication have borrowed theories and methodologies from each other, much scholarly discussion tends to focus on the flow from psychology to communication. Relatively less attention has been paid to the work in communication that adds to psychology, particularly in examining the processes of developing relationships with culturally different others. It is timely for us t...

Abstract Research on the development of Theory Mind has often focused predominantly belief attribution, but recently moves have been made to include also other mental states. This includes especially factive states like knowledge, where may turn out be more basic than non-factive Mind. I argue that children’s early pretend play carries important implications for research. Although does not dire...