The ascription of content based states-beliefs, desires, preferences, and so on-to nonhuman animals is still a subject of much debate in philosophy. Contemporary authors such as Donald Davidson, I R.G. Frey,2 Norman Malcolm,3 and Stephen Stich4 have all argued that the ascription of beliefs, desires, and other content based mental states to nonhuman animals is in some way misconceived. One impo...

Our conscious experiences of self-agency tell us that we cause and change other people's emotions during social interactions, even without awareness of what we did. How do such experiences of being the cause of an outcome, such as the emotions of others, emerge? Previous authorship ascription research suggests that unconsciously primed knowledge about emotions produces a sense of self-agency up...

The recent introduction of molecular techniques in eukaryotic microbial diversity studies, in particular those based in the amplification and sequencing of small-subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA), has revealed the existence of an unexpected variety of new phylotypes. The taxonomic ascription of the organisms bearing those sequences is generally deduced from phylogenetic analysis. Unfortunately, ...

This paper presents an environment for the design and implementation of an Intelligent Tutoring System based on a multimodal dialogue interface and user modelling. The system exploits existing web-based on-line courses and superimposes a rhetorical structure as the underlying model for the course content. In addition, the learner profile is based on the notion of stereotypical ascription, while...

This paper is a contribution to the semantical theory of different types of knowledge ascription, in particular the semantics of ‘knowing who’ and of the interaction between quantifiers and epistemic modal expressions. In possible world semantics, the truth conditions of such sentences depend on the way that identity across possible worlds is modeled. The main argument of this paper is that the...