Publications [#287544] of Owen Flanagan

Journal Articles

1. Flanagan, O (2009). Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(6), 519-520. [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.