There he worked in a unit that housed—or “warehoused,” as he puts it—patients with schizophrenia. Many had been abandoned by their families and faced the prospect of spending their lives in mental health institutions. It struck him: “These were people just like me in nearly every way, except for the fact that they were suffering from this tragic disease,” Ilardi recalls. “They could get lonely ...

"No one believes modeling results except the one who performed the calculation; ...everyone believes the experimental results except the one who did the measurements." P. J. Roache - Computational Physicist.

Do lay people and scientists themselves recognize that scientists are human and therefore prone to human fallibilities such as error, bias, and even dishonesty? In a series of three experimental studies and one correlational study (total N = 3,278) we found that the "storybook image of the scientist" is pervasive: American lay people and scientists from over 60 countries attributed considerably...

With interest, we read a recently published article by Vuokko et al. (2015) involving indoor air problems. We thank the authors for raising very important questions related to multiple health problems caused by poor indoor air. Currently, Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is not considered as an enigmatic condition (Zhang et al., 2012). On the contrary, it has gained a lot of interest from immunolog...

█ Abstract Tim Crane maintains that beliefs cannot be conscious because they persist in the absence of consciousness. Conscious judgments can share their contents with beliefs, and their occurrence can be evidence for what one believes; but they cannot be beliefs, because they don’t persist. I challenge Crane’s premise that belief attributions to the temporarily unconscious are literally true. ...

We use an extensive form, universal type space to provide the following epistemic characterization of extensive form rationalizability. Say that player i strongly believes event E if i is certain of E conditional on each of her information sets consistent with E. Our main contribution is to show that a strategy profile s is extensive form rationalizable if and only if there is a state in which ...

O Definition Primarily a feature of certain sentences, e.g., of many ascriptions of propositional attitudes. The truth of such ascriptions does not systematically depend on the truth or falsity of the proposition involved. Consider the following two belief-ascriptions: “Mary believes that 1 + 1 = 2” and “Mary believes that 2756 + 488 = 3244.” Even though both propositions (“1 + 1 = 2” and “2756...

(1) Is content in the head? Oscar believes that water is wet. His twin on Twin Earth, which is just like Earth except that H2O is replaced by the superficially identical XYZ, does not. His thoughts concern not water but twin water: Oscar believe that water is wet, but Twin Oscar believes that twin water is wet. This suggests that what a subject believes is not wholly determined by the internal ...