The Philosophy of Psychology
mutual cognition, such as mutual pretence, mutual jealousy, or mutual knowledge. Suppose that Peter and Pauline are mutually awa ...
probably relying upon theoretical knowledge. Theoretical knowledge might make mind-readersconsistently commit mistakesabout the ...
‘pretend beliefs’ of another person into our own system(s) of inferential processing, and then use the output of derived beliefs ...
tributed goals to further sub-goals. In particular, theory-theory should deny that our conceptions of mental state types are pro ...
which tests, in eVect, for the presence of desire–perception psychology, and which chimps and gorillas can pass. This suggests t ...
However, the experimenter had actually put a pencil inside the tube. These non-standard contents are now revealed to the child. ...
And the Smarties test provides us with a refutation of the suggestion. Children whose concept of false belief is not yet develop ...
cultural variations in folk-psychology count against the nativist hypothesis (Lillard, 1998), it does not really do so – on two ...
drome, who in other respects have more severe cognitive impairments. Autistic children’s incomprehension of false belief is stri ...
Figure 4.2 The staging of autistic deWcits play are among those eVects. The nativist theory-theory is that mind- reading capacit ...
happenif I make that moveor about what might happenif such-and-such were to be the situation. It should also be noted that those ...
developmental disorders, such as Williams’ syndrome. As we noted in chapter 3, children with Williams’ syndrome have poor practi ...
5.1 Pretend play During their second year normal children start to engage in play which involves some form of pretence. For exam ...
explanation seems to be pitched at too high a level. For recall that it is absence of pretend play at 18 months which is one of ...
counterfactual reasoning and mind-reading ability is rather tempting. After all, the central representational capacity of mind-r ...
but that theory-of-mind mustalwaysbe involved, at least in a controlling or monitoring role. To see theWrst point, consider some ...
Heal, 1986; Gordon, 1986; and Goldman, 1989.); Davies and Stone, 1995b; Car- ruthers and Smith, 1996. (This also contains sectio ...
5 Reasoning and irrationality In this chapter we consider the challenge presented to common-sense belief by psychological eviden ...
of rationality suggests that people can be rational and – more saliently – fail to be rational in a number of diVerent ways. Abo ...
being assessed), andprocess rationality(where it is the person’s belief- forming processes which are at issue). And as we shall ...
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