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Imitation without attitudes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Eoghan Mac Aogáin
Affiliation:
Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland eoghan@ite.ie www.ite.ie
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Abstract

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Byrne & Russon's account of program imitation in primates involves propositional attitudes (expectations and goals), which limits its falsifiability. Yet their account of priming shows exactly how imitation without attitudes would look. The challenge is to upgrade the notion of priming to give an account of low-level program imitation without invoking propositional attitudes.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press