Folk Psychology The Theory of Mind Debate

Many philosophers and psychologists argue that normal adult human beings possess a primitive or 'folk' psychological theory. Recently, however, this theory has come under challenge from the simulation alternative . This alternative view says that human bings are able to predict and explain each others' actions by using the resources of their own minds to simuate the psychological etiology of the actions of others. The thirteen essays in this volume present the foundations of theory of mind debate, and are accompanied by an extensive introduction.

Martin Davies is Wilde Reader in Mnetal Philosophy in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He was formerly a Lecturer and then Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. He has published widely in the areas of philosophy of language, mind and psychology, and from 1989 to 1995 was Executive Editor of the Journal Mind and Langusge (Blackwell Publishers).

Tony Stone is Head of the Psychology Group and Director of the Modular Programme at King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester. He has published papers on the philosophy of psychology, and is currently working on a book on the philosophical issues raised by cognitive neuropsychology.

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Replication and Functionalism
Folk Psychology as Simulation
Interpretation Psychologized
The Simulation Theory: Objectives and Misconceptions
Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?
'He thinks He Knows': And more Development Evidence Against the Simulation Role Taking Theory
Reply to Stich and Nichols
Reply to Perner and Howes
In Defense of Simulation Theory
From Simulation to Folk Pyschology: The Case for Development
Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really is a Theory
Reading the Eyes: Evidence for the Role of Perception in the Development of a Theory of Mind
Theory, Observation, and Drama
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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