Author:
Andrews, Kristin, 1971-
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Descriptionxi, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:I. Identifying the problem. -- 1. Do apes read minds? : Social apes ; Standard view of folk psychology ; A pluralistic folk psychology -- 2. Baby humans and adult chimpanzees: propositional attitude attribution in philosophy and psychology : From philosophy to psychology ; Belief attribution in philosophy ; Belief attribution in psychology ; Theory of mind in children ; Infant belief attribution ; Children's changing understanding of other minds -- 3. The asymmetry of folk psychological prediction and explanation : Standard folk psychology emphasizes prediction (and assumes explanation follows) ; The symmetry thesis ; Criticisms of the symmetry thesis ; An asymmetric folk psychology -- II. Prediction. -- 4. How do you know what I'm going to do? You know my beliefs : Prediction and the propositional attitudes ; Predicting behavior ; Accuracy of predicting behavior by relying on the attitudes ; Propositional attitude attribution is not sufficient for accurate predictions ; Propositional attitude attribution is not necessary for accurate predictions ; Prediction in theory and model theory ; Prediction in simulation theory ; Leaving the armchair -- 5. How do you know what I'm going to do? You know me : Mental content and intentionality ; Methods of prediction ; Predicting from the situation ; Predicting from self ; Predicting from stereotypes ; Predicting from traits ; Other factors involved in predicting behavior -- 6. The role of propositional attitudes in behavior prediction : Predicting behavior and mental content ; Does trait attribution require attribution of mental content? ; How accurate is standard folk psychology? ; What place is there for traditional folk psychological prediction? ; Predicting behavior without attributing propositional attitudes. -- III. Explanation. -- 7. What is folk psychological explanation? : A preliminary account of folk psychological explanation ; Explanation and prediction ; Four questions about FP explanation ; Explanation in theory theory ; Explanation in simulation theory ; Explanation in model theory ; My answers to the four questions -- 8. The science of folk psychological explanation : Aspects of explanation ; Explanation seeking in children ; Infants ; Verbal children ; Explanation generating in children ; The purposes of FP explanation ; Explanation types and contents ; Explanatory pluralism -- 9. Worries about explanation and mental state attribution : Explaining behavior without a theory of mind ; Nonverbal explainers ; Automatic mental state attribution ; Explanations, reasons, and causes ; Toward a new way -- IV. The solution. -- 10. Folk psychological pluralism: reading people, not minds : The principles of a pluralistic folk psychology ; Folk psychological pluralism ; How do the traditional accounts of mind reading stack up? ; Reading people, not minds -- V. Implications of the account. -- 11. Social intelligence and the evolution of theory of mind : The social intelligence hypothesis ; Deceiving without a theory of mind ; Predicting with a theory of mind ; Norms and theory of mind ; An adaptive function of explaining behavior ; Social intelligence as explaining behavior -- 12. Being a critter psychologist : Problems with the chimpanzee theory of mind research program ; Chimpanzee critter psychology ; Intentional agency ; Predicting and coordinating ; Explanation seeking ; Belief attribution ; Moving forward -- 13. Conclusion : Seeing people.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-287) and index.
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