Developing theories of mind

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Developing theories of mind

edited by Janet W. Astington, Paul L. Harris, David R. Olson

Cambridge University Press, 1988

  • : pbk

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"Papers from the International Conference on Developing Theories of Mind, University of Toronto, May, 1986 and the Workshop on Children's Early Concept of Mind, St. John's College, Oxford, June, 1986"--Verso t.p

Includes bibliographies and indexes

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Volume

ISBN 9780521354110

Description

A collection of "state-of-the-art" empirical reports and conceptual analyses by leading researchers in child development and behaviour. It examines the child's awareness of mental states - beliefs, desires, intentions and emotions - and considers how these are expressed.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Developmental origins of children's knowledge about the mind: some implications of pretence for mechanisms underlying the child's theory of mind, A.M.Leslie
  • theory of mind and the structure of conscious experience, C.N.Johnson
  • first steps in the child's theorizing about the mind, H.M.Wellman
  • children's understanding of perceptibility, I.Yaniv and M.Shatz
  • the development of the understanding of human behaviour from agency to intentionality, D.Poulin-Doubois and T.R.Shultz
  • early forms of thought about thoughts some simple linguistic expressions of mental state, C.Fleisher Feldman. Part 2 Coordinating representational states with the world - understanding the relationship between percepion knowledge and reality: developing semantics for theories of mind from propositional attitudes to mental representation, J.Perner
  • a second stage in children's conception of mental life understanding informational accesses as origins of knowledge and belief, H.Wimmer et al
  • knowing you've changed your mind - children's understanding of representational change, J.W.Astington and A.Gopnik
  • the development of children's understanding of the seeing-knowing distinction, M.Taylor
  • the ontogeny of common sense, L.Forguson and A.Gopnik
  • the development of children's knowledge about the mind - from cognitive connections to mental representations, J.H.Flavell. Part 3 Further development of a theory of mind - understanding mental states in social interaction and communication: high-order beliefs and intentions in children's understanding of social interaction, J.Perner
  • children's understanding of real and apparent emotion, P.L.Harris and D.Gross
  • children's knowledge about representations of intended meaning, C.R.Beal
  • what is said and what is meant in referential communication, G.Bonitatibus. Part 4 Further theoretical implications of children's concepts of mind: assessing intention: a computational model, T.R.Shultz
  • making judgments about thoughts and things, J.Russell
  • doubt and developing theories of mind, M.Chandler
  • on the origins of beliefs and other intentional states in children, D.R.Olson.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780521386531

Description

A collection of empirical reports and conceptual analyses written by leading researchers in an exciting new area of the cognitive sciences. The book examines a fundamental change that occurs in children's cognition between the ages of two and six.

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