Folk Psychology The Theory of Mind Debate

by Davies, Martin; Stone, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780631195153
• ISBN10: 0631195157
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Many philosophers and psychologists argue that normal adult human beings possess a primitive or 'folk' psychological theory. Recently, however, this theory has come under challenge from the simulation alternative . This alternative view says that human bings are able to predict and explain each others' actions by using the resources of their own minds to simuate the psychological etiology of the actions of others. The thirteen essays in this volume present the foundations of theory of mind debate, and are accompanied by an extensive introduction.

Author Biography

Martin Davies is Wilde Reader in Mnetal Philosophy in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus 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 Executive Editor of the Journal Mind and Langusge (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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Replication and Functionalism

Folk Psychology as Simulation

Interpretation Psychologized

The Simulation Theory: Objectives and Misconceptions

Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?

'He thinks He Knows': And more Development Evidence Against the Simulation Role Taking Theory

Reply to Stich and Nichols

Reply to Perner and Howes

In Defense of Simulation Theory

From Simulation to Folk Pyschology: The Case for Development

Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really is a Theory

Reading the Eyes: Evidence for the Role of Perception in the Development of a Theory of Mind

Theory, Observation, and Drama

References

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

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