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Competence: What's in? What's out? Who knows?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Joshua Alexander ,
Ronald Mallon  and
Jonathan M. Weinberg
Joshua Alexander
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, Siena College, Loudonville, NY 12211. [email protected]://www.siena.edu/pages/1855.asp
Ronald Mallon
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. [email protected]://www.philosophy.utah.edu/faculty/mallon/
Jonathan M. Weinberg
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005. [email protected]://www.indiana.edu/~phil/Faculty/Individual%20Pages/Weinberg.html
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Abstract

Knobe's argument rests on a way of distinguishing performance errors from the competencies that delimit our cognitive architecture. We argue that other sorts of evidence than those that he appeals to are needed to illuminate the boundaries of our folk capacities in ways that would support his conclusions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 329 - 330
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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