| Description |
xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: A Preliminary Account of Folk Psychological Explanation -- Explanation and Prediction -- Four Questions about FP Explanation -- Explanation in Theory Theory -- Explanation in Simulation Theory -- Explanation in Model Theory -- My Answers to the Four Questions -- 8.The Science of Folk Psychological Explanation -- Aspects of Explanation -- Explanation Seeking in Children -- Infants -- Verbal Children -- Explanation Generating in Children -- The Purposes of FP Explanation -- Explanation Types and Contents -- Explanatory Pluralism -- 9.Worries about Explanation and Mental State Attribution -- Explaining Behavior without a Theory of Mind -- Nonverbal Explainers -- Automatic Mental State Attribution -- Explanations, Reasons, and Causes -- Toward a New Way -- IV.The Solution -- 10.Folk Psychological Pluralism: Reading People, Not Minds -- The Principles of a Pluralistic Folk Psychology -- Folk Psychological Pluralism -- |
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Contents note continued: How Do the Traditional Accounts of Mind Reading Stack Up? -- Reading People, Not Minds -- V.Implications of the Account -- 11.Social Intelligence and the Evolution of Theory of Mind -- The Social Intelligence Hypothesis -- Deceiving without a Theory of Mind -- Predicting with a Theory of Mind -- Norms and Theory of Mind -- An Adaptive Function of Explaining Behavior -- Social Intelligence as Explaining Behavior -- 12.Being a Critter Psychologist -- Problems with the Chimpanzee Theory of Mind Research Program -- Chimpanzee Critter Psychology -- Intentional Agency -- Predicting and Coordinating -- Explanation Seeking -- Belief Attribution -- Moving Forward -- 13.Conclusion -- Seeing People |
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Contents note continued: Propositional Attitude Attribution Is Not Sufficient for Accurate Predictions -- Propositional Attitude Attribution Is Not Necessary for Accurate Predictions -- Prediction in Theory Theory and Model Theory -- Prediction in Simulation Theory -- Leaving the Armchair -- 5.How Do You Know What I'm Going to Do? You Know Me -- Mental Content and Intentionality -- Methods of Prediction -- Predicting from the Situation -- Predicting from Self -- Predicting from Stereotypes -- Predicting from Traits -- Other Factors Involved in Predicting Behavior -- 6.The Role of Propositional Attitudes in Behavior Prediction -- Predicting Behavior and Mental Content -- Does Trait Attribution Require Attribution of Mental Content? -- How Accurate Is Standard Folk Psychology? -- What Place Is There for Traditional Folk Psychological Prediction? -- Predicting Behavior without Attributing Propositional Attitudes -- III.Explanation -- 7.What Is Folk Psychological Explanation? -- |
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Machine generated contents note: I.Identifying the Problem -- 1.Do Apes Read Minds? -- Social Apes -- Standard Views of Folk Psychology -- A Pluralistic Folk Psychology -- 2.Baby Humans and Adult Chimpanzees: Propositional Attitude Attribution in Philosophy and Psychology -- From Philosophy to Psychology -- Belief Attribution in Philosophy -- Belief Attribution in Psychology -- Theory of Mind in Children -- Infant Belief Attribution -- Children's Changing Understanding of Other Minds -- 3.The Asymmetry of Folk Psychological Prediction and Explanation -- Standard Folk Psychology Emphasizes Prediction (and Assumes Explanation Follows) -- The Symmetry Thesis -- Criticisms of the Symmetry Thesis -- An Asymmetric Folk Psychology -- II.Prediction -- 4.How Do You Know What I'm Going to Do? You Know My Beliefs -- Prediction and the Propositional Attitudes -- Predicting Behavior -- Accuracy of Predicting Behavior by Relying on the Attitudes -- |
| Summary |
Andrews argues for a pluralistic folk psychology that employs different kinds of practices and different kinds of cognitive tools (including personality trait attribution, stereotype activation, inductive reasoning about past behavior, and generalization from self) that are involved in our folk psychological practices |
| Analysis |
Child & developmental psychology |
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Psychology |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-287) and index |
| Subject |
Cognitive psychology.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Human behavior.
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| LC no. |
2011044397 |
| ISBN |
9780262017558 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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