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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Identifying the Problem | p. 1 |
Do Apes Read Minds? | p. 3 |
Social Apes | p. 3 |
Standard Views of Folk Psychology | p. 7 |
A Pluralistic Folk Psychology | p. 10 |
Baby Humans and Adult Chimpanzees: Propositional Attitude Attribution in Philosophy and Psychology | p. 13 |
From Philosophy to Psychology | p. 13 |
Belief Attribution in Philosophy | p. 14 |
Belief Attribution in Psychology | p. 18 |
Theory of Mind in Children | p. 22 |
Infant Belief Attribution | p. 25 |
Children's Changing Understanding of Other Minds | p. 33 |
The Asymmetry of Folk Psychological Prediction and Explanation | p. 37 |
Standard Folk Psychology Emphasizes Prediction (and Assumes Explanation Follows) | p. 37 |
The Symmetry Thesis | p. 39 |
Criticisms of the Symmetry Thesis | p. 41 |
An Asymmetric Folk Psychology | p. 43 |
Prediction | p. 45 |
How Do You Know What I'm Going to Do? You Know My Beliefs | p. 47 |
Prediction and the Propositional Attitudes | p. 47 |
Predicting Behavior | p. 49 |
Accuracy of Predicting Behavior by Relying on the Attitudes | p. 51 |
Propositional Attitude Attribution Is Not Sufficient for Accurate Predictions | p. 52 |
Propositional Attitude Attribution Is Not Necessary for Accurate Predictions | p. 54 |
Prediction in Theory Theory and Model Theory | p. 56 |
Prediction in Simulation Theory | p. 60 |
Leaving the Armchair | p. 63 |
How Do You Know What I'm Going to Do? You Know Me | p. 65 |
Mental Content and Intentionality | p. 65 |
Methods of Prediction | p. 67 |
Predicting from the Situation | p. 70 |
Predicting from Self | p. 75 |
Predicting from Stereotypes | p. 81 |
Predicting from Traits | p. 88 |
Other Factors Involved in Predicting Behavior | p. 93 |
The Role of Propositional Attitudes in Behavior Prediction | p. 99 |
Predicting Behavior and Mental Content | p. 99 |
Does Trait Attribution Require Attribution of Mental Content? | p. 101 |
How Accurate Is Standard Folk Psychology? | p. 105 |
What Place Is There for Traditional Folk Psychological Prediction? | p. 109 |
Predicting Behavior without Attributing Propositional Attitudes | p. 111 |
Explanation | p. 113 |
What Is Folk Psychological Explanation? | p. 115 |
A Preliminary Account of Folk Psychological Explanation | p. 115 |
Explanation and Prediction | p. 126 |
Four Questions about FP Explanation | p. 128 |
Explanation in Theory Theory | p. 129 |
Explanation in Simulation Theory | p. 132 |
Explanation in Model Theory | p. 138 |
My Answers to the Four Questions | p. 143 |
The Science of Folk Psychological Explanation | p. 145 |
Aspects of Explanation | p. 145 |
Explanation Seeking in Children | p. 146 |
Infants | p. 146 |
Verbal Children | p. 148 |
Explanation Generating in Children | p. 151 |
The Purposes of FP Explanation | p. 153 |
Explanation Types and Contents | p. 156 |
Explanatory Pluralism | p. 161 |
Worries about Explanation and Mental State Attribution | p. 163 |
Explaining Behavior without a Theory of Mind | p. 163 |
Nonverbal Explainers | p. 164 |
Automatic Mental State Attribution | p. 168 |
Explanations, Reasons, and Causes | p. 175 |
Toward a New Way | p. 178 |
The Solution | p. 181 |
Folk Psychological Pluralism: Reading People, Not Minds | p. 183 |
The Principles of a Pluralistic Folk Psychology | p. 183 |
Folk Psychological Pluralism | p. 197 |
How Do the Traditional Accounts of Mind Reading Stack Up? | p. 198 |
Reading People, Not Minds | p. 206 |
Implications of the Account | p. 213 |
Social Intelligence and the Evolution of Theory of Mind | p. 215 |
The Social Intelligence Hypothesis | p. 215 |
Deceiving without a Theory of Mind | p. 218 |
Predicting with a Theory of Mind | p. 220 |
Norms and Theory of Mind | p. 222 |
An Adaptive Function of Explaining Behavior | p. 224 |
Social Intelligence as Explaining Behavior | p. 229 |
Being a Critter Psychologist | p. 231 |
Problems with the Chimpanzee Theory of Mind Research Program | p. 231 |
Chimpanzee Critter Psychology | p. 234 |
Intentional Agency | p. 234 |
Predicting and Coordinating | p. 237 |
Explanation Seeking | p. 240 |
Belief Attribution | p. 243 |
Moving Forward | p. 247 |
Conclusion | p. 249 |
Seeing People | p. 249 |
Notes | p. 253 |
References | p. 255 |
Index | p. 289 |
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