Mental Simulation: Evaluations and Applications - Reading in Mind and LanguageISBN: 978-0-631-19873-4
Paperback
304 pages
December 1995, Wiley-Blackwell
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Many philosophers and psychologists argue that out everyday ability
to predict and explain the actions and mental states of others is
grounded in out possession of a primitive 'folk' psychological
theory. Recently however, this 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 the others.
This book and the companion volume Folk Psychology: The Theory of Mind Debate together offer a richly woven fabric of philosophical and psychological theory, which promises to yield real insights into the nature of our mental lives.