PUBLICATIONS (A Selection)
Books, authored
OUR OWN MINDS: Executive and Social Grounds of Self-Consciousness and Self-Understanding, MIT Press/Bradford Books, 2009
PREDICATIVE MINDS: The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking, MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge, MA, 2008
MINDING MINDS: Evolving a Reflexive Mind by Interpreting Others, MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge, MA, 2000 (paperback 2003)
- a section on causal knowledge [why it requires the ability to cause further causal relations]
INTERPRETING MINDS: The Evolution of a Practice, MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge, MA, 1997 (paperback 2003)
- a section on folk-psychological explanation [why it is mostly externalist and rather rarely mentalist]
GROUNDS FOR COGNITION: How Goal-Guided Behavior Shapes the Mind, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J., 1994 [Romanian translation, Editura All, Bucharest, 1998]
- chapter 2 (on teleology) [why goal-directedness defines life]
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Books, edited
MIND AND COMMON SENSE, Cambridge University Press, NY, 1991
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987
BELIEF, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986
RODERICK CHISHOLM, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986
D.M. ARMSTRONG, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1984
HENRY KYBURG & ISAAC LEVI, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1982
KEITH LEHRER, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1981
PATRICK SUPPES, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1979
LOCAL INDUCTION, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1976
LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND PROBABILITY, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1973 [with I. Niiniluoto]
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Articles, Notes, Replies (A Selection)
Inside Loops: Developmental Premises of Self-Ascriptions, SYNTHESE, 159, 2007
Pretending as Imaginative Rehearsal for Cultural Conformity, JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND CULTURE, 5, 1-2, 2005, 191-213
Why Self-Ascriptions are Difficult and Develop Late, in B. Malle and S. Hodges (eds), OTHER MINDS, Guilford Press, New York, 2005
What Is Epistemic Discourse About? In D. Kolak and J.Symons (ed), QUANTIFIERS, QUESTIONS AND QUANTUM PHYSICS, Springer, Dordrecht, 2004, 49-60.
Watch Your Metastep: The First-Order Limits of Early Intentional Attributions, in PERSONS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH (edited by C. Kanzian, J. Quitterer and L. Runggaldier), öbv&hpt, Vienna, 2003, 117-129
Developing Mental Abilities by Representing Intentionality, SYNTHESE, 129, 2, 2001, 233-258
More Theory and Evolution, BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 24, 6, 2001, 1140-1141
From Naive Psychology to the Design of the Human Mind, “22”, 34, 1999 [“22” is a Romanian journal of culture and opinion]
Misdirected Goal, CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY, 43, 6, 1998, 449-450.
The Epistemological Illusion, BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 18, 1, 1995, 390-391
The Architectural Nonchalance of Commonsense Psychology, MIND AND LANGUAGE, 8, 2, 1993, 189-205.
The Pragmatic Psyche, PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 53, 1, 1993, 157-158.
Sens Commun et Sciences Cognitives, in Lucien Sfez (ed), DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE DE LA COMMUNICATION, PUF, Paris, 1993, 907-912.
La Psychologie des Facultés, in Lucien Sfez (ed), DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE DE LA COMMUNICATION, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1993, 896-902.
L'Histoire de la Science Cognitive, in Lucien Sfez (ed), DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE DE LA COMMUNICATION, PUF, Paris, 1993, 870-878. [in English]
Cognitive Science, in Hans Burckhardt and Barry Smith (eds), HANDBOOK OF METAPHYSICS AND ONTOLOGY, Philosophia Verlag, Munchen, 1992, 69-73.
Information, in Burckhardt and Smith (eds), HANDBOOK OF METAPHYSICS AND ONTOLOGY, Philosophia Verlag, Munchen, 1992, pp. 198-203.
The Folklore of the Mind, in Bogdan (ed), MIND AND COMMON SENSE, Cambridge University Press, 1991, 1-14.
Common Sense Naturalized, in Bogdan (ed), MIND AND COMMON SENSE, Cambridge University Press, 1991, 161-206.
Sciences Cognitives et Intelligence Artificielle: La Barriere Semantique (Lucien Sfez et Pierre Muso, eds.), EPISTEMOLOGIE ET SYMBOLIQUE DE LA COMMUNICATION, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1990, 171-180.
What Do We Need Concepts For? MIND AND LANGUAGE, 4, 1, 1989, 17-23.
Does Semantics Run the Psyche? PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 49, 4, 1989, 687-700.
Information and Semantic Cognition, MIND AND LANGUAGE, 3, 2, 1988 (with commentaries by David Israel and Fred Dretske), 81-122. [including Replies to Commentators]
Replies to Commentators, MIND AND LANGUAGE, 3, 2, 1988, 145-151.
Mental Attitudes and Common Sense Psychology: The Case Against Elimination, NOUS, 22, 3, 1988, 369-398 [Attitudes Mentales et Psychologie du Sens Commun, HERMES 3, 1989]
Mind, Content and Information, SYNTHESE, 70, 2, 1987, 205-227. [reprinted in F. Recanati (ed), COMMUNICATION ET COGNITION, CNRS, Paris, 1987].
The Importance of Belief, in Bogdan (ed), BELIEF, Oxford University Press, 1986, 1-16.
The Manufacture of Belief, in Bogdan (ed), BELIEF, Oxford University Press, 1986, 149-184.
The Objects of Perception, in Bogdan (ed), RODERICK CHISHOLM, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986, 135-156.
Cognition and Epistemic Closure, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 22, 1, 1985, 55-63.
The Intentional Stance Reexamined, BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 8, 4, 1985, 759-760 [with reply by Daniel Dennett].
Fodor's Representations, COGNITION AND BRAIN THEORY, 4, 2, 1983, 237-249.
Determining What is Perceived, BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 5, 1983, 66-67 [with reply by Fred Dretske].
Two Turns in Induction, in L.J. Cohen and M. Hesse (eds.), APPLICATIONS OF INDUCTIVE LOGIC, Oxford University Press, 1980, 406-415.
Hume and the Problem of Local Induction, in Bogdan (ed), LOCAL INDUCTION, Reidel, 1976, 217-234.
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