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Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds (Oxford Cognitive Science)

By Stephen P. Stich , Shaun Nichols

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0198236107, 9780198236108, 0198236093, 9780198236092
LCC
BD418.3 .N53 2003
Google Books ID
tBL16iMNPuYC
Open Library ID
OL22539776M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2873459 bytes)
Series
Oxford Cognitive Science
Pages
245\245
DPI
600
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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