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Mindreading: an integrated account of pretence, self awareness and understanding other minds

By: Contributor(s): Series: Oxford cognitive science seriesPublication details: Oxford Clarendon Press 2003Description: 237 pISBN:
  • 0198236107
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128.2
Summary: The everyday capacity to understand the mind, or 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our ordinary lives. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich provide a detailed and integrated account of the intricate web of mental components underlying this fascinating and multifarious skill. The imagination, they argue, is essential to understanding others, and there are special cognitive mechanisms for understanding oneself. The account that emerges has broad implications fr longstanding philosophical debates over the status of folk psychology.
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The everyday capacity to understand the mind, or 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our ordinary lives. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich provide a detailed and integrated account of the intricate web of mental components underlying this fascinating and multifarious skill. The imagination, they argue, is essential to understanding others, and there are special cognitive mechanisms for understanding oneself. The account that emerges has broad implications fr longstanding philosophical debates over the status of folk psychology.

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