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What puts the “meta” in metacognition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Michael L. Anderson  and
Don Perlis
Michael L. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604michael.anderson@fandm.eduhttp://www.agcognition.org Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Don Perlis
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742perlis@cs.umd.eduhttp://www.activelogic.org
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Abstract

This commentary suggests an alternate definition for metacognition, as well as an alternate basis for the “aboutness” relation in representation. These together open the way for an understanding of mindreading that is significantly different from the one advocated by Carruthers.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 138 - 139
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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