1 Deference and Self-Knowledge It has become increasingly popular to suggest that non-individualistic theories of content1 undermine our purported a priori knowledge of such contents because they entail that we lack the ability to distinguish our thoughts from alternative thoughts with different contents. However, problems relating to such knowledge of ‘comparative’ content tell just as much ag...

Psychological essentialism has been subject to much debate. Yet a key implication – that people should defer to experts in categorizing natural kinds – has not been widely examined. Three experiments examine deference in the categorization of chemical kinds. The first establishes borderline cases used in the second and third. These latter show limited deference to experts, and some deference to...

This article discusses men's transition to first time fatherhood, with a focus on the way they recognise various in-tension moral demands and negotiate an appropriate role for themselves. The findings are taken from a longitudinal study, drawing on elements of grounded theory, comprising a series of face-to-face and telephone interviews with 11 men over a 9-month period from the 12(th) week of ...

We present vrFlora which shows adaptive responses suitable for a user’s situation. It perceives the user’s context through ubiTrack detecting the user’s profile, location and orientation, and ubiFlowerpot sensing the user’s manipulation with a physical flowerpot. In addition, it adaptively analyzes the context according to its own characteristics, and then displays customized multimedia content...

Despite the importance of psychological essentialism as an account of categorisation, it is unclear what import findings of individual difference have. The present study is designed to investigate individual differences in relation to deference, a key indicator of essentialist thought. This replicates previous findings of individual differences in deference, and demonstrates a strong associatio...