Self-Interpretation as First-Person Mindshaping: Implications for Confabulation Research

It is generally acknowledged that confabulation undermines the authority of self-attribution of mental states. But why? The mainstream answer is that confabulation misrepresents the actual state of one’s mind at some relevant time prior to the confabulatory response. This construal, we argue, rests...

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Главные авторы: Strijbos, Derek 1979- (Автор) ; Bruin, Leon de 1979- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: [2015]
В: Ethical theory and moral practice
Год: 2015, Том: 18, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 297-307
Индексация IxTheo:NCB Индивидуальная этика
ZD Психология
Другие ключевые слова:B Confabulation
B Mindshaping
B First-person authority
B Self-attribution
B Self-regulation
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Итог:It is generally acknowledged that confabulation undermines the authority of self-attribution of mental states. But why? The mainstream answer is that confabulation misrepresents the actual state of one’s mind at some relevant time prior to the confabulatory response. This construal, we argue, rests on an understanding of self-attribution as first-person mindreading. Recent developments in the literature on folk psychology, however, suggest that mental state attribution also plays an important role in regulating or shaping future behaviour in conformity with normative expectations. We explore an analogue understanding of self-attribution of mental states in terms of first-person mindshaping. The main aim of this paper is to explore how this insight alters the implications of empirical confabulation studies on first-person authority. We also indicate how this sheds new light on the phenomenon of confabulation itself.
ISSN:1572-8447
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9579-3