Books in the Readings in Mind and Language series

With little or no formal teaching, human beings develop the capacity to deploy psychological concepts in predicting and explaining the actions and mental states of other members of the species. What is the basis for this capacity? This title features 13 essays that present the foundations of theory of mind debate, along with an introduction.

Accessible and authoritative account of a fast-developing inter-disciplinary research area. State-of-the-art papers by both psychologists and philosophers with a good mix of case studies and theory.

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 a folka psychological theory. Recently however, this theory has come under challenge from the simulation alternative.