Mindreading
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ISBN13: 9780198236092
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The everyday capacity to understand the mind, or "mindreading", plays an enormous role in our lives. In the latter half of the twentieth century mindreading became the object of sustained scientific and theoretic research, capturing the attention of a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, developmental psycholgy, behavioural ecology, anthropology, and cognitive psychopathology. What has been missing is a detailed and integrated account of the mental componenets that underlie this remarkable capacity. Nichols and Stick develop and defend a new account of the psychological mechanisms and underlying mindreading. They maintain that is, as common sense would suggest, vital to distinguish between reading others' minds and reading one's own. In reading other minds, the imagination plays a central role. As a result, the authors begin with an explicit and systematic account of pretence and imagination which proposes that pretence representations are contained in a separate mental workspace, the "Possible World Box" which is part of the basic architecture of the human mind. The mechanisms underlying pretence get recruited when people attempt to understand others and predict their behaviour. In come cases, we use our own mental mechanisms to simulate the mental process of another, as sugested by the "simulation theory" of mindreading. However, mindreading also implicates very different kinds of mechanisms that rely on rich bodies of information, as suggested by information-based accounts of mindreading. In addition, the authors argue, reading other minds involves important processes that don't fit into either category. None of these mechanisms, though, explain how we read our own minds, which according to the authors, require invoking an entirely independent set of mechanisms. What we find, then, is an intricate web of mental components to explain our fascinating and multifaric knack at understanding minds. This account provides a valuable framework for future work on mindreading and has broad implications for philosophical debates that have surrounded the issue for the last quarter century.
| ISBN-13 | 9780198236092 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0198236093 |
| Weight | 1.11 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.30 x 0.90 x 6.30 In |
| List Price | $165.00 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 248 pages |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press |
| Published On | 2003-10-09 |
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