Abstract

This chapter focuses on three parts of Goldman's work, beginning with his model of the processes that underlie ascriptions of mental states to others. It maintains that Goldman errs in ignoring the role that knowledge of testimony plays in those processes. The second topic will be the theory of introspection that Goldman developed in the early 1990s. The reader may be surprised to find that most of the author remarks are concerned with this topic, given that Goldman's views about introspection have changed dramatically in recent years. It is the author impression, however, that that his earlier theory has been hugely influential, and that it continues to shape research on cognitive phenomenology and self‐knowledge. The third topic will be Goldman's more recent theory of introspection ‐ the theory that he develops in Simulating Minds. The chapter sketches alternatives to the main components of Goldman's theory, together with some of the motivation for accepting them.