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Topic: Richard Nisbett

	Naturalized Epistemology
		Feldman, Richard (1999), "Methodological Naturalism in Epistemology," in The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, edited by John Greco and Ernest Sosa, Malden, Ma: Blackwell, pp.
		Fumerton, Richard (1994) "Skepticism and Naturalistic Epistemology," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XIX: 321-340.
		Stich, Stephen and Richard Nisbett (1980), "Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning," Philosophy of Science 47: 188-202.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /entries/epistemology-naturalized (7024 words)

	Biographies of Major Contributors to Cognitive Science
		Nisbett has been at Michigan since 1971, where his research is focused on social psychology and on the relations between social and cognitive psychology.
		With Lee Ross, he wrote Human Inference Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment (1980) in which they attempted to demonstrate that judgment errors are due to extending beyond their proper domain the same heuristics as account for successful human reasoning.
		In work with Timothy Wilson, Nisbett showed that people are often confabulate about their reasons for action.
	mechanism.ucsd.edu /~bill/research/ANAUT.html (16669 words)

	Nonphenomenal Consciousness - Eric Lormand
		And beliefs (as well as other attitudes and moods) seem subject to confabulatory access in ways that (current) thought-images (and other phenomenal experiences) don’t.
		In trying to identify our own propositional attitudes we tend to think too highly of ourselves, systematically but sincerely reporting attitudes we think we rationally should have in the circumstances, even if we don’t have them (as reasonably determined by methods available to the psychologist; see Nisbett and Wilson, 1977).
		Presumably we make the same kind of mistakes about other mental states, such as our moods, erring systematically in the direction of the moods that we think appropriate in our circumstances.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~lormand/phil/cons/nonphenomenal.htm (8535 words)

	THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2002
		The haze of ignorance still has not disappeared: Whoever wants real answers has to know what he's looking for — A poll of scientists and artists for the year 2002.
		His Tannhäuser may be named Steven Pinker, and his Wolfram von Eschenbach may go by Richard Dawkins, but it would do us well to trust that they and their compatriots could also turn out speculation on the count's favorite theme.
		Brockman's thinkers of the "Third Culture," whether they, like Dawkins, study evolutionary biology at Oxford or, like Alan Alda, portray scientists on Broadway, know no taboos.
	www.edge.org /q2002/question.02_print.html (12492 words)

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