Papers by Robert M McCauley
Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2005
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International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 1996
This paper examines the nature of autobiographical memories relating to experiences of learning g... more This paper examines the nature of autobiographical memories relating to experiences of learning geography in school. After discussing the characteristics of such memories and the extent to which they can be distinguished from other types of memory, some examples of autobiographical memories, drawn from the experiences of a group of geography education tutors and student geography teachers, are presented for analysis. In an attempt to assess the significance of such memories, a possible link between autobiographical memories, the imagination and the needs of young people in school is explored. Is it possible to use the nature, range and vividness of autobiographical memories, as they relate to geographical education in school, as an indicator of the quality of that education? Some suggestions for further research are offered.
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American Anthropologist, 1991
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Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020
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In principle, an economy with capital controls can maintain a stable exchange rate and set domest... more In principle, an economy with capital controls can maintain a stable exchange rate and set domestic interest rates independently. In practice, enforcement of capital controls is never easy and some leakage can be expected. Thus, a certain amount of capital flight can be the unwanted side effect of low domestic interest rates in the presence of imperfect capital controls. China’s recent experience, which has combined a stable exchange rate, capital controls and falling domestic interest rates in relation to dollar interest rates, highlights an unappreciated means to limit this unwanted side effect. In China, foreign currency accounts are allowed within the system of capital controls. These serve to keep foreign exchange in the domestic banking system, in effect domesticating capital flight. In this section, we analyse foreign currency deposits in the Chinese banking system. Their growth appears to reflect the disappearance of the yield premium on renminbi deposits relative to foreign...
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, 1976
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Comparative Political Studies, 1978
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Comparative Political Studies, 1980
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Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, Jan 11, 1978
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Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1977
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Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 1993
Woodward and Devonis wish to raise a number of developments in the philosophy of science over the... more Woodward and Devonis wish to raise a number of developments in the philosophy of science over the past decade to the attention of historians of psychology. New models of science’s structure and development may substantially alter historiography in their field. Eschewing both the logical empiricists, preoccupations with the axiomatization of theories in their rational reconstructions of scientific knowledge, and the Kuhnians’ subsequent preoccupation with the radical incommensurability that scientific revolutions allegedly inject into science, philosophers such as Bechtel, Darden, Laudan, Maull, Nickles, and others have promoted analyses that focus variously on (1) construing scientific progress in terms of ongoing problem solving power, (2) examining the role of scientific discovery in the justification of scientific accomplishments, and (3) analyzing the character and complexity of cross-scientific relations (beyond mere intertheoretic considerations) that contribute to both problem solving and discovery. It is the third of these items that most occupies the authors’ attention.
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Theory & Psychology, 2001
Explanatory pluralism holds that the sorts of comprehensive theoretical and ontological economies... more Explanatory pluralism holds that the sorts of comprehensive theoretical and ontological economies that microreductionists and New Wave reductionists envision and antireductionists fear offer misleading views of both scientific practice and scientific progress. Both advocates and foes of employing reductionist strategies at the interface of psychology and neuroscience have overplayed the alleged economies that interlevel connections (including identities) justify while overlooking their fundamental role in promoting scientific research. A brief review of research on visual processing provides support for the explanatory pluralist's general model of cross-scientific relations and discloses the valuable heuristic role hypothetical identities play in cross-scientific research. That model also supplies grounds for hesitation about the correlation objection to the psychophysical identity theory and complaints about an explanatory gap in physicalist accounts of consciousness. These tak...
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PsycCRITIQUES, 1982
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Philosophy Compass, 2010
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Philosophical Psychology, 1993
Taking inspiration from developments in neurocomputat ional modeling, Paul Church- land develops ... more Taking inspiration from developments in neurocomputat ional modeling, Paul Church- land develops his positions in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. Concerning the former, Churchland relaxes his eliminativism at various points and seems to endorse a traditional identity account of sensory qualia. Although he remains unsympathetic to folk psychology, he no longer seeks the elimination of normative epistemology, but rather its transformation to a philo- sophical enterprise informed by current developments in the relevant sciences. Churchland supplies suggestive discussions of the character of knowledge, simplicity, explanation, theory, and conceptual change. Many of his treatments turn on his prototype activation model of neural representation, which looks to the notion of a 'prototype' as it is employed in the psychological literature on concept representation, however, this and other features of Churchland's neurocomputational program do not square well with some of his views about cross-scientific relations.
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Philosophical Psychology, 1992
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Philosophical Psychology, 2009
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Philosophical Psychology, 1988
Abstract Like the logical empiricists many contemporary philosophers wish to bring the determinat... more Abstract Like the logical empiricists many contemporary philosophers wish to bring the determinateness of scientific judgment to epistemology. Recent efforts to naturalise epistemology (such as those of the Churchlands) seem to jeopardise the position of epistemology as a normative discipline. Putnam argues that attempts to naturalise epistemology are self‐refuting. My goal is not to defeat the project for the naturalisation of epistemology, but rather to help clarify what it does and does not amount to. I maintain that attempts to completely eliminate the normative will be either forever incomplete or inimical to the progress of science. However, because it is the first horn of this dilemma which will prevail, these considerations do not undermine the importance of future epistemology carefully attending to the results of the relevant sciences.
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