Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds

The everyday capacity to understand the mind, or 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our ordinary lives. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich provide a detailed and integrated account of the intricate web of mental components underlying this fascinating and multifarious skill. The imagination, they argue, is essential to understanding others, and there are special cognitive mechanisms for understanding oneself. The account that emerges has broad implications for longstanding philosophical debates over the status of folk psychology.

Mindreading is another trailblazing volume in the prestigious interdisciplinary Oxford Cognitive Science series.


Author: Shaun Nichols, Stephen P. Stich
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 10/09/2003
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.98w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780198236108

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