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Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other...
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Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other...
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by Shaun Nichols and Stephen P. Stich
Sales Rank : 409220
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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA October 9, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198236107
ISBN-13: 978-0198236108
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
Product 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.
About The Author
Shaun Nichols is at College of Charleston, South Carolina. Stephen P. Stich is at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
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