| Description |
viii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Readings in mind and language. ; 3 |
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Readings in mind and language.
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| Contents |
(Cont'd.) Reply to Perner and Howes / Robert M. Gordon -- In defense of the simulation theory / Alvin I. Goldman -- From simulation to folk psychology: the case for development / Paul L. Harris -- Why the child's theory of mind really IS a theory / Alison Gopnik, Hnery M. Wellman -- Reading the eyes: evidence for the role of perception in the development of a theory of mind / Simon Baron-Cohen, Pippa Cross -- Theory, observation, and drama / Simon Blackburn |
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Replication and functionalism / Jane Heal -- FOlk psychology as simulation / Robert M. Gordon -- Interpretation psychologized / Alvin I. Goldman -- The simulation theory: objections and misconceptions / Robert M. Gordon -- Folk psychology: simulation or tacit theory? / Stephen Stich, Shaun Nichols -- 'He thinks he knows': and more developmental evidence against the simulation (role-taking) theory / Josef Perner, Deborrah Howes -- Reply to Stich and Nichols / Robert M. Gordon |
| Summary |
"With 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 af the species. What is the basis of this capacity?" "Many philosophers and psychologists argue that this everyday ability reflects the fact that normal adult human beings possess a primitive or 'folk' psychological theory. Recently, however, this theory theory has come under challenge from the simulation alternative. This alternative view says that human beings are able to predict and explain each other's actions by using the resources of their own minds to simulate the psychological aetiology of the actions of others." "The thirteen essays in this volume offer comprehensive coverage of the mental simulation debate, and are accompanied by an extensive new introductory essay. A companion volume, Mental Simulation, contains thirteen further essays, most of which appear there for the first time."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Psychology |
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Psychology |
| Notes |
Based on a special issue of Mind and langauge vol.7, numbers 1-2, spring-summer, 1992 |
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Companion volume: Mental simulation: evaluations and applications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Developmental psychology.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Insight.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Psychology and philosophy.
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Psychology -- Philosophy.
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Psychology.
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Role playing.
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Thought and thinking.
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| Author |
Davies, Martin, 1950 November 11-
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Stone, Tony.
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| ISBN |
0631195149 (cased) |
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0631195157 (paperback) |
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