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Open AccessFind the Gap: AI, Responsible Agency and Vulnerability
The responsibility gap, commonly described as a core challenge for the effective governance of, and trust in, AI and autonomous systems (AI/AS), is traditionally associated with a failure of the epistemic and/or ...
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Open AccessMindsha** and Non-Gricean Approaches to Language Evolution
Orthodoxy has it that language evolution requires Gricean communicative intentions and therefore an understanding of nested metarepresentations. The problem with this orthodoxy is that it is hard to see how no...
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Open AccessChoice in a two systems world: picking & weighing or managing & metacognition
Intuitively, choices seem to be intentional actions but it is difficult to see how they could be. If our choices are all about weighing up reasons then there seems no room for an additional intentional act of ...
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Is Willpower Just Another Way of Tying Oneself to the Mast?
This paper argues against the intuition that willpower and so called ‘tying to the mast’ strategies are fundamentally different types of mental actions to achieve self control. The argument for this surprising...
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Explicit Reasons, Implicit Stereotypes and the Effortful Control of the Mind
Research in psychology clearly shows that implicit biases contribute significantly to our behaviour. What is less clear, however, is whether we are responsible for our implicit biases in the same way that we a...
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Mental Muscles and the Extended Will
In the wake of Clark and Chalmers famous argument for extended cognition some people have argued that willpower equally can extend into the environment (e.g. Heath and Anderson in The thief of time: philosophi...
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The Role of the Self-Model for Self-Determination
In our modern world the language of freedom is everywhere. We live in a free country, we have the freedom to choose, the military forces of many Western states are fighting in an operation called ‘Enduring Fre...
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Owning Intentions and Moral Responsibility
The article argues that there is a specific role for narrative consciousness in our understanding of justified responsibility ascription. Starting from a short review of empirical findings that suggest that we...
