An Implicit, Non-Verbal Measure of Belief Attribution to Robots

Abstract Recent findings from anticipatory-looking false-belief tests have shown that nonhuman great apes and macaques anticipate that an agent will go to the location where the agent falsely believed an object to be. Phillips et al.'s claim that nonhuman primates attribute knowledge but not belief should thus be reconsidered. We propose that both knowledge and belief attributions are evolutionary old.

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Attributing Beliefs and Judgements In plato’s gorgias, meno, and theaetetus

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 58 ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198858997.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 59-90

Author(s):

Alex Long

Keyword(s):

Belief Attribution ◽

Geometrical Problem ◽

The Subject

In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates explains what it is to have a doxa, a judgement or belief. A doxa is a self-addressed affirmation or denial that comes into existence when, after giving a question thought, the subject settles on one answer. Two passages seem to conflict with this account of doxa. In the Gorgias, a belief is attributed to Polus on the strength of what he is committed to by his other beliefs. But Socrates is trying to show complexity in an apparently universal consensus on Polus’ side, and the point of the belief-attribution cannot be understood without recognizing that Socrates speaks of what other people, not only Polus himself, believe. In the Meno, a slave in the grip of perplexity is said to contain true doxai. But Socrates does not mean that the slave at that time believes the answer to the geometrical problem.

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Role of Two Types of Syntactic Embedding in Belief Attribution in Adults with or without Asperger Syndrome

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00743 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Morgane Clémentine Burnel ◽

Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti ◽

Stephanie Durrleman ◽

Anne C. Reboul ◽

Monica Baciu

Keyword(s):

Asperger Syndrome ◽

Belief Attribution

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Differentiating the performances of Alzheimer patients from hospitalized and normal elderly controls on a verbal measure of learning and memory

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology ◽

10.1016/0887-6177(95)92998-k ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 370-371

Author(s):

L Neal

Keyword(s):

Learning And Memory ◽

Verbal Measure

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How many beliefs can dance in the head of the self-deceived?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x97320032 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 111-112 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jeffrey E. Foss

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Belief Attribution ◽

Explanatory Framework

Mele desires to believe that the self-deceived have consistent beliefs. Beliefs are not observable, but are instead ascribed within an explanatory framework. Because explanatory cogency is the only criterion for belief attribution, Mele should carefully attend to the logic of belief-desire explanation. He does not, and the consistency of his own account as well as that of the self-deceived, are the victims.

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