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Counterfactual and Prefactual Conditionals
(Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004)
We consider reasoning about prefactual possibilities
in the future, for example, “if I were to win the lottery
next year I would buy a yacht” and counterfactual possibilities,
for example, “if I had won the lottery last ...
Self-other contingencies: enacting social perception
(Springer Netherlands, 2009)
Can we see the expressiveness of other people's gestures, hear the intentions in their
voice, see the emotions in their posture? Traditional theories of social cognition still say we cannot,
because intentions and emotions ...
Indicative and Counterfactual 'only if' conditionals'.
(Elsevier, 2009-11)
We report three experiments to test the possibilities reasoners think about when they understand a con-ditional of the form ‘A only if B’ compared to ‘if A then B’. The experiments examine conditionals in the indicative ...
Enactive theorists do it on purpose: on why the enactive approach demands an account of goals and goal-directedness.
(Springer Netherlands, 2007)
The enactive approach to cognitive science involves frequent references to
“action” without making clear what is intended by the term. In particular, no
definition or account is offered of goals which can encompass not ...
Doing it and meaning it (and the relationship between the two) (pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2005)
A number of related approaches to cognition and consciousness have been gaining momentum in the literature in recent years, emphasizing the active, embodied nature of the mind and grounding mental states and processes in ...
‘Plastic and proud’?: discourses of authenticity among the second-generation Irish in England
(University of Cambridge, 2009)
This paper argues that understandings of authenticity are crucial in the construction of a diasporic identity and explores how members of the Irish diaspora in England construct discourses of what it means to be ‘authentically’ ...
Counterfactual promises and threats
(Cognitive Science Society, 2004)
We examine counterfactual conditionals about promises, such as ‘if you had tidied your room then I would have given you
ice-cream’ and threats such as ‘if you had hit your sister then I would have grounded you’. Reasoners ...
Thinking counterfactually – how controllability affects the ‘undoing’ of causes and enablers.
(Cognitive Science Society, 2008)
Abstract
Previous research on counterfactual thoughts about prevention
suggests that people tend to focus on enabling rather than
causing agents. However, research has also demonstrated that
people have a preference ...