Ruth Byrne

Professor of Cognitive Science

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

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Professor Ruth Byrne is a faculty member at the University of Dublin Trinity College in Ireland. Her research primarily focuses on cognitive science, including counterfactual and causal explanations, cognitive processes in moral reasoning, and the epistemic status of imagined alternatives. She has published numerous articles exploring how people conceptualize possibilities and navigate complex decision-making scenarios.

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2020

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Articles (10)

On the different content of counterfactual and causal explanations

Categorical and Continuous Features in Counterfactual Explanations of AI Systems

Introduction to Progress and Puzzles of Cognitive Science

How people think about possibilities

Human verifications: Computable with truth values outside logic

Cognitive processes in imaginative moral shifts: How judgments of morally unacceptable actions change

“If only” counterfactual thoughts about cooperative and uncooperative decisions in social dilemmas

How people keep track of what is real and what is imagined: The epistemic status of counterfactual alternatives to reality.

Imagined alternatives to episodic memories of morally good acts

If and or: Real and counterfactual possibilities in their truth and probability.

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Philip Johnson-Laird

Emma Cohen

Greta Warren

Iris van Rooij

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