Description
Book SynopsisWith little or no formal teaching, human beings develop the capacity to deploy psychological concepts in predicting and explaining the actions and mental states of other members of the species. What is the basis for this capacity? This title features 13 essays that present the foundations of theory of mind debate, along with an introduction.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Martin Davies and Tony Stone.
1. Replication and Functionalism: Jane Heal.
2. Folk Psychology as Simulation: Robert M. Gordon.
3. Interpretation Psychologized: Alvin I. Goldman.
4. The Simulation Theory: Objectives and Misconceptions: Robert M. Gordon.
5. Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?: Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols.
6. 'He thinks He Knows': And more Development Evidence Against the Simulation Role Taking Theory: Josef Perner and Deborah Howes.
7. Reply to Stich and Nichols: Robert M. Gordon.
8. Reply to Perner and Howes: Robert M. Gordon.
9. In Defense of Simulation Theory: Alvin I. Goldman.
10. From Simulation to Folk Pyschology: The Case for Development: Paul L.Harris.
11. Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really is a Theory: Alison Gopnik and Henry M. Wellman.
12. Reading the Eyes: Evidence for the Role of Perception in the Development of a Theory of Mind: Simon Baron-Cohen and Pippa Cross.
13. Theory, Observation, and Drama: Simon Blackburn.
References.
Index of Names.
Index of Subjects.
