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

by Shaun Nichols, Stephen P. Stich

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198236108
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/09/2003
Series:	Oxford Cognitive Science Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 5.98(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

College of Charleston, South Carolina

Rutgers University, New Jersey

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. A Cognitive Theory of Pretence3. Pieces of Mind: A Theory of Third-Person Mindreading4. Reading One's Own Mind5. Objections, Replies, and Philosophical ImplicationsReferences