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Simulating minds : the philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of mindreading / Alvin I. Goldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldman, Alvin I., 1938- author.
- Series:
- Philosophy of mind series.
- Philosophy of mind
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social perception.
- Empathy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of mindreading
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We have thoughts, feelings and emotions, and we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? This book explores these questions.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Philosophical and scientific perspectives on mentalizing
- ch. 2. Conceptualizing simulation theory
- ch. 3. The rationality theory
- ch. 4. The child scientist theory
- ch. 5. The modularity theory
- ch. 6. Simulation in low-level mindreading
- ch. 7. High-level simulational mindreading
- ch. 8. Ontogeny, autism, empathy, and evolution
- ch. 9. Self-attribution
- ch. 10. Concepts of mental states
- ch. 11. The fabric of social life : mimicry, fantasy, fiction, and morality
- References
- Author index
- Subject index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-339) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988142-1
- 0-19-536983-1
- 1-281-15880-1
- 9786611158804
- 0-19-803176-9
- 1-4356-1856-4
- OCLC:
- 190860915
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