Natural theories of mind : evolution, development and simulation of everyday mindreading
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Natural theories of mind : evolution, development and simulation of everyday mindreading
B. Blackwell, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In our everyday social lives we routinely understand the behaviour of others by attributing mental states to them. This book draws together from a range of disciplines research into the origins and emergence of this fundamental ability to have a "theory of mind". In understanding psychology researchers have begun to trace the child's developing understanding of such concepts as others' desires, emotional states and intentions. Ethologists and comparative psychologists have asked how and why an ability to read the mind of another might emerge in the course of evolution. In computer science, the question is how to shape the emergence within computational systems of representations of the minds of others, be it to copy their expertise or to interact with users in a more "humane" fashion. This volume brings to bear contributions from these three disciplines, with others from philosophy and anthropology, on the central topic of the emergence of theories of mind. The interdisciplinary cross-talk it initiates ranges from discussion of conceptual and methodological foundations to exploration of common patterns in machine, animal and man.
Table of Contents
- Fundamental issues in the multidisciplinary study of mindreading, Andrew Whiten and Josef Perner
- from desires to beliefs - acquisition of a theory of mind, Henry M.Wellman
- developing understanding of desire and intention, Janet W.Astington and Alison Gopnik
- understanding others - evidence from naturalistic studies of children, Judy Dunn
- the theory of ind impairment in autism - evidence for a modular mechanism of development?
- Alan M.Leslie
- from agency to intention - a rule-based computational approach, Thomas R.Shultz
- how to read minds in behaviour - a suggestion from a philosopher, Jonathan Bennet
- planning and plan recognition from a computational point of view, Charles F.Schmidt and Stacey C.Marsella
- computation and mindreading in primate tactical deception, Richard W.Byrne and Andrew Whiten
- playing with others' expectations - teasing and mucking about in the first year of infancy, Vasudevi Reddy
- jokes and lies - children's understanding of intentional falsehood, Susan R.Leekam
- reading minds or reading behaviour - tests for a theory of mind in monkeys, Dorothy L.Cheney and Robert M.Seyfarth
- visual behaviour as a window for reading the mind of others in primates, Juan C.Gomez
- before mindreading - attention, purposes and deception in birds, Carolyn A.Ristau
- the ontogeny and phylogeny of joint visual attention, George Butterworth
- precursors to a theory of mind - understanding attention in others, Simon Baron-Cohen
- perceptual origins and conceptual evidence for theory of mind in apes and children, David Premack and Verena Dasser
- the emergence of metarepresentation in human ontogeny and primate phylogeny, Andrew Whiten and Richard W.Byrne
- the work of the imagination, Paul L.Harris
- narrativity - mindreading and making societies, Michael Carrithers
- evolution, development and simulation of mindreading - steps towards an interdisciplinary enterprise, Andrew Whiten.
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