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Mindreading : an integrated account of pretence, self-awareness, and understanding other minds

Author: Shaun Nichols; Stephen P Stich
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series: Oxford cognitive science series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Nichols and Stich develop and defend a new account of the psychological mechanisms underlying mindreading. They maintain that it is, as common sense would suggest, vital to distinguish between reading others' minds and reading one's own. In reading other minds, the imagination plays a central role. As a result, the authors begin with an explicit and systematic account of pretence and imagination which proposes that  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Shaun Nichols; Stephen P Stich
ISBN: 0198236093 9780198236092 0198236107 9780198236108
OCLC Number: 52485349
Description: 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
A cognitive theory of pretence --
Pieces of mind: a theory of third-person mindreading --
Reading one's own mind --
Objections, replies, and philosophical implications.
Series Title: Oxford cognitive science series.
Responsibility: Shaun Nichols and Stephen P. Stich.
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Abstract:

"Nichols and Stich develop and defend a new account of the psychological mechanisms underlying mindreading. They maintain that it is, as common sense would suggest, vital to distinguish between reading others' minds and reading one's own. In reading other minds, the imagination plays a central role. As a result, the authors begin with an explicit and systematic account of pretence and imagination which proposes that pretence representations are contained in a separate mental workspace, the 'Possible World Box', which is part of the basic architecture of the human mind." "This account provides a valuable framework for future work on mindreading and has broad implications for philosophical debates that have surrounded the issue for the last quarter century."--BOOK JACKET.

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