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Publications [#287544] of Owen Flanagan

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  1. Flanagan, O, Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 32 no. 6 (December, 2009), pp. 519-520, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi].
    (last updated on 2024/01/01)

    Abstract:
    McKay & Dennett (M&D) argue that positive illusions are a plausible candidate for a class of evolutionarily selected for misbeliefs. I argue (Flanagan 1991; 2007) that the class of alleged positive illusions is a hodge-podge, and that some of its members are best understood as positive attitudes, hopes, and the like, not as beliefs at all. © 2010 Cambridge University Press.


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