Mental Simulation

Evaluations and Applications - Reading in Mind and Language

AvMartin Davies,Tony Stone

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

Many philosophers and psychologists argue that out everyday ability to predict and explain the actions and mental states of others is grounded in out possession of a primitive 'folk' psychological theory. Recently however, this theory has come under challenge from the simulation alternative. This alternative view says that human beings are able to predict and explain each other's actions by using the resources of their own minds to simulate the psychological aetiology of the actions of the others. This book and the companion volume Folk Psychology: The Theory of Mind Debate together offer a richly woven fabric of philosophical and psychological theory, which promises to yield real insights into the nature of our mental lives.

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Utgivningsdatum:1995-10-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Readings in Mind and Language
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780631198734

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Martin Davies is Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford and a Fellow od Chorpus 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 the Executive Editor of the journal Mind and Language (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.

Innehållsförteckning

List of contributors viiAcknowledgements ixIntroduction 1Tony Stone and Martin Davies1. Simulation and Psychological Concepts 19Gary Fuller2. How to Think about Thinking 33 Jane Heal3. Simulation Without Introspection of Interference from Me to You 53Robert M. Gordon 53 4. Theories of the Mind in Collision: Plausibility and Authority 68 Norman H. Freeman5. Second Thoughts on Simulation 87Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols6. A Theory of the Child's Theory of Mind 109Jerry A. Foder7. Knowledge and Ability in"Theory of Mind": One-eyed Overview of a Debate 123 Alan M. Leslie and Tim P. German8. Imagination and Simulation: Aesthetics Meets Cognitive Science 151 Gregory Currie9. Imagining and Pretending 170Paul L. Harris10. Empathy, Mind, and Morals 185Alvin I. Goldman11. Self-knowledge, Error and Disorder 209Derek Bolton12. Game Theory and Knowledge by Simulation 235Adam Morton13. Simulative Reasoning, Common-sense Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence 247John A. BarndenAuthor Index 273Subject Index 279