Folk psychology : the theory of mind debate / edited by Martin Davies and Tony Stone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Martin, 1950-

Stone, Tony.

Series:

Readings in mind and language ; 3.

Readings in mind and language ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

viii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995.

Summary:

With little or no formal teaching, human beings develop the capacity to deploy psychological concepts in predicting and explaining the actions and mental states of other members of the species. What is the basis of this capacity? Many philosophers and psychologists argue that this everyday ability reflects the fact that normal adult human beings possess a primitive or 'folk' psychological theory. Recently, however, this theory 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 others.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0631195149

0631195157

OCLC:

33474290