Why We Can’t All Just Get Along.Graham G.Dodds -2002 -Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (3):345-374.detailsThis paper critically examines several game theoretic interpretations of Hobbes' state of nature, including Prisoner's Dilemma and Assurance Game, and argues instead that the best matrix is that of a combination of the two, an Assurance Dilemma. This move is motivated by the fact that Hobbes explicitly notes two distinct personality types, with different preference structures, in the state of nature: dominators and moderates. The former play as if in a Prisoner's Dilemma, the latter play as if in an Assurance (...) Game. But when meeting one another, the Assurance Dilemma represents their differing strategies, and can explain various other features of Hobbes' state of nature, as well as a key informational role played the Sovereign. (shrink)
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading.Bo Yao,Graham G. Scott,Gillian Bruce,Ewa Monteith-Hodge &Sara C. Sereno -forthcoming -Cognition and Emotion.detailsWe replicated and extended the findings of Yao et al. [(2018). Differential emotional processing in concrete and abstract words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(7), 1064–1074] regarding the interaction of emotionality, concreteness, and imageability in word processing by measuring eye fixation times on target words during normal reading. A 3 (Emotion: negative, neutral, positive) × 2 (Concreteness: abstract, concrete) design was used with 22 items per condition, with each set of six target words matched across conditions in (...) terms of word length and frequency. Abstract (e.g. shocking, reserved, fabulous) and concrete (e.g. massacre, calendar, treasure) target words appeared (separately) within contextually neutral, plausible sentences. Sixty-three participants each read all 132 experimental sentences while their eye movements were recorded. Analyses using Gamma generalised linear mixed models revealed significant effects of both Emotion and Concreteness on all fixation measures, indicating faster processing for emotional and concrete words. Additionally, there was a significant Emotion × Concreteness interaction which, critically, was modulated by Imageability in early fixation time measures. Emotion effects were significantly larger in higher-imageability abstract words than in lower-imageability ones, but remained unaffected by imageability in concrete words. These findings support the multimodal induction hypothesis and highlight the intricate interplay of these factors in the immediate stages of word processing during fluent reading. (shrink)
The Conversation of Humanity, by Stephen Mulhall. [REVIEW]G.Graham -2010 -Mind 119 (474):519-522.details(No abstract is available for this citation).
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Another Test.A. Anderson,B. Burningham,C. Charles,D. Damien,E. Emerson,F. Frank,G.Graham,H. Hector,I. Inca &Niq Kiq -2010 -Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 4 (1).detailsThe paper discusses Dr. Floris Tomasini's paper What Is Bioethics: Notes toward a New Approach?. Based on Tomasini's account of methodological and ethical pluralism, the paper explores the demarcation problem of bioethics and suggests a full methodological laissez-faire.
When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts.G. Lynn Stephens &GeorgeGraham -2000 - MIT Press.detailsAn examination of verbal hallucinations and thought insertion as examples of "alienated self-consciousness.".