Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 33, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

Competence: What's in? What's out? Who knows?

Joshua Alexandera1, Ronald Mallona2 and Jonathan M. Weinberga3

a1 Philosophy Department, Siena College, Loudonville, NY 12211. jalexander@siena.edu http://www.siena.edu/pages/1855.asp

a2 Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. rmallon@philosophy.utah.edu http://www.philosophy.utah.edu/faculty/mallon/

a3 Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005. jmweinbe@indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~phil/Faculty/Individual%20Pages/Weinberg.html

Abstract

Knobe's argument rests on a way of distinguishing performance errors from the competencies that delimit our cognitive architecture. We argue that other sorts of evidence than those that he appeals to are needed to illuminate the boundaries of our folk capacities in ways that would support his conclusions.

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