Theories of Theories of Mind

Theories of Theories of Mind brings together contributions by a distinguished international team of philosophers, psychologists and primatologists, who among them address such questions as: what is it to understand the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of other people? How does such an understanding develop in the normal child? Why, unusually, does it fail to develop? Is any such mentalistic understanding shared by members of other species?

List of contributors

xii

Preface

xiv

Introduction

1

(10)

Peter Carruthers

Peter K. Smith

Part I What is acquired - theory-theory versus simulation-theory

`Radical' simulationism

11

(11)

Robert M. Gordon

Simulation and self-knowledge: a defence of theory-theory

22

(17)

Peter Carruthers

Varieties of off-line simulation

39

(36)

Shaun Nichols

Stephen Stich

Alan Leslie

David Klein

Simulation, theory, and content

75

(15)

Jane Heal

Simulation as explicitation of predication-implicit knowledge about the mind: arguments for a simulation-theory mix

90

(15)

Josef Perner

Folk psychology and theoretical status

105

(14)

George Botterill

The mental simulation debate: a progress report

119

(22)

Tony Stone

Martin Davies

Part II Modes of acquisition - theorising, learning, and modularity

The modularity of theory of mind

141

(17)

Gabriel Segal

The relationship between SAM and ToMM: two hypotheses

158

(11)

Simon Baron-Cohen

John Swettenham

Theories and modules: creation myths, developmental realities, and Neurath's boat

169

(15)

Alison Gopnik

What is theoretical about the child's theory of mind?: a Vygotskian view of its development

184

(16)

Janet Astington

Desires, beliefs, and language

200

(23)

Paul Harris

Part III Failures of acquisition-explaining autism

What could possibly explain autism?

223

(19)

Jill Boucher

Simulation-theory, theory-theory, and the evidence from autism

242

(15)

Gregory Currie

Autism as mind-blindness: an elaboration and partial defence

257

(20)

Peter Carruthers

Part IV Wider perspectives-evolution and theory of mind

When does smart behaviour-reading become mind-reading?

277

(16)

Andrew Whiten

Chimpanzee theory of mind?: the long road to strong inference

293

(37)

Daniel Povinelli

Non-human primate theories of (non-human primate) minds: some issues concerning the origins of mind-reading

330

(14)

Juan-Carlos Gomez

Language and the evolution of mind-reading

344

(11)

Peter K. Smith

References

355

(26)

Author index

381

(6)

Subject index

387

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