NDLI: Controlling core knowledge: conditions for the ascription of intentional states to self and others by children

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Author	Russell, James
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	The ascription of intentional states to the self involves knowledge, or at least claims to knowledge. Armed with the working definition of knowledge as ‘the ability to do things, or refrain from doing things, or believe, or want, or doubt things, for reasons that are facts’ [Hyman, J. Philos. Quart. 49:432–451], I sketch a simple competence model of acting and believing from knowledge and when knowledge is defeated by un-experienced changes of state. The model takes the form of three concentric circles. The ‘periphery’ is analogous to Fodor’s [(1983), The modularity of mind. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA] input systems. The ‘core’ contains copies of peripheral representations, and between these representations there is executive competition. At the ‘nucleus’, operations are performed on the core representations of, at least, negation and recursion. I argue that this provides a fruitful way in which to conceptualise why theory-of-mind tasks challenge pre-school children, how some degree of first-person authority is mental state attribution is possible, and how executive inhibition is achieved.
Starting Page	167
Ending Page	196
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	159
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2007-08-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Knowledge Competence model Periphery-core-Nucleus Seeing-leads-to knowing Object permanence False belief Philosophy of Language Metaphysics Epistemology Logic Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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