Character as Moral Fiction

By Mark Alfano. 2013

187 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/89b7edde9fcd9c5ce1e1933f3cca1b30ee62f8c6

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Uwe Peters
2. Jeroen van den Hoven
3. Filippo Santoni de Sio

In Social Psychology

1. Uwe Peters
2. Jeroen van den Hoven
3. Filippo Santoni de Sio

Citations in the corpus

• What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias? (2020, background): “For instance, they tend to occur only when targets are able to change in accordance with the trait ascriptions, when the latter are believable rather than unrealistic (Alfano 2013: 91f), and when the ascriber holds more power than the ascribee (Copeland 1994: 264f).”
• Meaningful Human Control over Autonomous Systems: A Philosophical Account (2018, background): “, the mechanisms of an individual human mind or brain; however, an influential part of present-day cognitive science and philosophy of mind claim that human decisions and actions and even human personality traits are not represented in any brain mechanism; these accounts describe the human mind as “”