Figure 4.1 A simulation-based account of behaviour predictionprovided by suggesting that in solving mind-reading problems one simu-
lates by running one’s own decision-making or practical reasoning system
‘oV-line’. This suggestion is illustrated by the boxological diagram drawn
by Stich and Nichols (seeWgure 4.1). They actually produced this diagram
in the course of an attack on simulationism (Nicholset al., 1996), but their
elucidation of the idea of ‘oV-line’ running has been found broadly accept-
able by simulationists as well as their critics.
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