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Collaboration with University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
ARED is an interdispiclinary project that aims to bring philosophy and cognitive science in dialogue by developing a characterization of epistemic agency that applies to all putative epistemic agents: adult humans, infants, animals and idealized subjects. The project will involve the design and execution of experiments aimed at testing reflective abilities of preverbal children, pigs, and dogs. The experiments will be executed in cooperation with Dr. Eva Rafetseder (Psychology, Stirling), and Dr. Zsofia Viranyi (Comparative Cognition, University of Vetrinary Medicine, Vienna).
Total award value ?1,020,296.34
Senior Research Fellow, Philosophy
Associate Professor, Psychology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
Article
Adults show selective responses to unreliability based on the strength of counterevidence
Blakey KH, Melis G, Virányi Z & Rafetseder E (2025) Adults show selective responses to unreliability based on the strength of counterevidence. PLOS One, 20 (11), Art. No.: e0331480. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331480
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Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
Melis G & Blakey K (2025) Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-025-00977-x
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Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions
Blakey KH (2025) Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions. Scientific Reports, 15, Art. No.: 7103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91648-y
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Are humans the only rational animals?
Melis G & Monsó S (2023) Are humans the only rational animals?. Philosophical Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad090
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Normative Defeaters and the Alleged Impossibility of Mere Animal Knowledge for Reflective Subjects
Melis G (2023) Normative Defeaters and the Alleged Impossibility of Mere Animal Knowledge for Reflective Subjects. Philosophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-023-00658-5
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Blakey KH, Renner E, Atkinson M, Rafetseder E & Caldwell CA (2022) Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), Art. No.: 5045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09092-1