Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. Edited by Stephen P. Stich (2003)
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Abstract

The everyday capacity to understand the mind, or 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our ordinary lives. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich provide a detailed and integrated account of the intricate web of mental components underlying this fascinating and multifarious skill. The imagination, they argue, is essential to understanding others, and there are special cognitive mechanisms for understanding oneself. The account that emerges has broad implications for longstanding philosophical debates over the status of folk psychology. Mindreading is another trailblazing volume in the prestigious interdisciplinary Oxford Cognitive Science series

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Shaun Nichols
Cornell University
Stephen Stich
Rutgers - New Brunswick

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Aboutness in Imagination.Franz Berto - 2018 - Philosophical Studies 175 (8):1871-1886.

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