his competence. The author points out that “the ascription schema constrains mental ascriptions once a system is specified; but it puts no limit on which systems should have mental states ascribed to them.” He postulates a “Supertrap” which strikes matches in the presence of gassoaked mice, topples dictionaries on mice, and, of course, snaps shut whenever mice nibble its bait “These habits betr...

The idea that psychiatry contains, in principle, a series of levels of explanation has been criticized not only as empirically false but also, by Campbell, as unintelligible because it presupposes a discredited pre-Humean view of causation. Campbell's criticism is based on an interventionist-inspired denial that mechanisms and rational connections underpin physical and mental causation, respect...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new member of the family of the modal interpretations of quantum mechanics. In this modal-Hamiltonian interpretation, the Hamiltonian of the quantum system plays a decisive role in the property-ascription rule that selects the definite-valued observables whose possible values become actual. We show that this interpretation is effective for solving the mea...

Cultural participation has been evidenced to bring several benefits the well-being of individuals. However, analysis this relationship addressed mostly in context Westernized countries, without considering diversity populations Latin America. Therefore, aim manuscript is explore association between cultural and subjective (measured by life satisfaction) America, ethnic-racial ascription. With d...

This paper argues, contrary to the claims of other workers, that formal semantics in the sense of model theory cannot provide an adequate basis for the ascription of meanings in AI programs.

This study examined the attribution of charisma to socially close and distant leaders. Respondents were 554 Israeli combat soldiers who completed five questionnaires describing their perceptions of either their platoon commander or their battalion commander. The results showed that the attribution of charisma to socially close leaders is related to the ascription of extraordinary traits to the ...

DESPITE HIS FAULTS AND HIS ANTIQUITY, Mircea Eliade (19071986) had insights to which we would do well to attend. Our epistemological ancestors bequeath our situation to us and we need to respect them — which does not mean adopting or ignoring their vices but cultivating their virtues. The danger is not so much of throwing out the baby with the bathwater but — in a perhaps even more grotesque im...

In this article, the logic and functions of character-trait ascriptions in ethics and epistemology is compared, and two major problems, the ‘‘generality problem’’ for virtue epistemologies and the ‘‘global trait problem’’ for virtue ethics, are shown to be far more similar in structure than is commonly acknowledged. Beyond the aporia of character-trait ascription and between the Scylla and Char...

1. One tenet of Donald Davidson's account of radical interpretation is the interdependence of utterance interpretation and belief ascription. Assigning meanings to a speaker's utterances requires interpreters to make concomitant determinations of their beliefs. But at the same time, one cannot fix the contents of a subject's beliefs without identifying the meanings of their utterances. So belie...