Book Details

Folk Psychology Re-Assessed

Publication year: 2007

: 978-1-4020-5558-4

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FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, THEORY OF MIND AND SIMULATION The tasks we face in our day to day social lives are quite heterogeneous but many of them make a common demand upon us. They require us to understand and interact with other people and, in most social encounters, we exhibit a special sensitivity to our fellow human beings that is quite different from the way we respond to inanimate objects and most other species of organism. Social life is dependent, to a considerable degree, on our ability to understand what is distinctive about human behaviour and to successfully apply that understanding in all manner of situations.


: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Folk Psychology, Intersubjectivity, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Simulation Theory, Theory of Mind, cognitive science, developmental psychology, perception, psychology