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Natural theories of mind : evolution, development and simulation of everyday mindreading / edited by Andrew Whiten.

Contributor(s): Whiten, Andrew.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 1991 (1992 [printing])Description: xiv, 362 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0631185526 (pbk).Subject(s): Philosophy of mind in children | Attribution (Social psychology) -- Computer simulation | Psychology, ComparativeDDC classification: 153
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 mind impairment in autism: evidence for a modular mechanism of development? / Alan M. Leslie -- From agency to intention: a rule-based, computational approach / Thomas R. Schultz -- How to read minds in behaviour: a suggestion from a philosopher / Jonathan Bennett -- Planning and plan recognition from a computational point of view / Charles F. Schmidt and Stacy 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 / 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. Seayfarth -- 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 -- The emergence of mindreading: steps towards an interdisciplinary enterprise / Andrew Whiten.

Includes bibliographical references: (pages 333-358) and index.

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 mind impairment in autism: evidence for a modular mechanism of development? / Alan M. Leslie -- From agency to intention: a rule-based, computational approach / Thomas R. Schultz -- How to read minds in behaviour: a suggestion from a philosopher / Jonathan Bennett -- Planning and plan recognition from a computational point of view / Charles F. Schmidt and Stacy 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 / 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. Seayfarth -- 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 -- The emergence of mindreading: steps towards an interdisciplinary enterprise / Andrew Whiten.