Do Animals Have Beliefs ?

By Daniel C. Dennett

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Philosophy

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In Cognitive Science & Psychology

1. Mohit Bansal
2. Peter Hase
3. Mona T. Diab
4. Asli Celikyilmaz
5. Zornitsa Kozareva
6. Veselin Stoyanov
7. Srini Iyer
8. Xian Li

In Philosophy

1. Mohit Bansal
2. Peter Hase
3. Mona T. Diab
4. Asli Celikyilmaz
5. Zornitsa Kozareva
6. Veselin Stoyanov
7. Srini Iyer
8. Xian Li

Citations in the corpus

• Do Language Models Have Beliefs? Methods for Detecting, Updating, and Visualizing Model Beliefs (2021, methodology): “When discussing032 whether animals have beliefs (raccoons, in particu-033 lar), philosopher Daniel Dennett (1995) writes:034 You might as well call the state of the raccoon035 a belief, since if you call it a “registration” or036 a “data-structure” in the “environmental infor-037 mation store” or…”
• A Dispositional Approach to Attitudes: Thinking Outside of the Belief Box (2013, background): “It is to tend to expect them to make worthwhile colloquium comments, to seek 1 See critiques of the warehouse model of memory in Bartlett 1932; Neisser 1967; Roediger 1980; and Sutton 2008; and my critique of such models in developmental psychology in Schwitzgebel 1999 and McGeer and Schwitzgebel 20”