Joint Ventures Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition

Alvin I. Goldman is Professor of Philosophy & Cognitive Science and is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is one of the most influential epistemologists of the last several decades, with seminal contributions on the causal theory of knowledge, process reliabilism, and social epistemology. He also works at several interfaces between cognitive science and philosophy, including philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics. With over twelve books and 150 articles to his credit, he is among the most prolific and wide-ranging philosophers of his generation.

Introduction

Part I: Mindreading and Simulation
1. Theory of Mind
2. Mirror Neurons and the Simulation Theory of Mindreading (with Vittorio Gallese)
3. Simulationist Models of Face-Based Emotion Recognition (with Chandra. Sekhar Sripada)
4. Mirroring, Mindreading and Simulation
5. Mindreading by Simulation: The Roles of Imagination and Mirroring (with Lucy Jordan)
6. The Psychology of Folk Psychology

Part II: Empathy and Embodied Cognition
7. Empathy, Mind, and Morals
8. Two Routes to Empathy: Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience
9. Is Social Cognition Embodied? (with Frederique de Vignemont)
10. A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science

Part III. Action Theory and Metaphysics
11. The Individuation of Action
12. A Program for 'Naturalizing' Metaphysics, with Application to the Ontology of Events
13. Actions, Predictions, and Books of Life