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Imitation without attitudes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Eoghan Mac Aogáin
Eoghan Mac Aogáin
Affiliation:
Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Dublin 2, [email protected] www.ite.ie
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Abstract

Byrne & Russon's account of program imitation in primates involves propositional attitudes (expectations and goals), which limits its falsifiability. Yet their account of priming shows exactly how imitation without attitudes would look. The challenge is to upgrade the notion of priming to give an account of low-level program imitation without invoking propositional attitudes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 696 - 697
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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