Simulating Minds
The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-513892-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-513892-4 (ISBN)
In this study, Goldman argues that simulation is intensively used in mindreading tasks, from recognizing emotion in faces to assigning conceptual contents to thoughts. Psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy are applied to questions of third- and first- person mindreading, as well as mental concepts, moral psychology and other topics in social cognition.
People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the mental realm? In this book, Alvin I. Goldman explores these questions with the tools of philosophy, developmental psychology, social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He refines an approach called simulation theory, which starts from the familiar idea that we understand others by putting ourselves in their mental shoes. Can this intuitive idea be rendered precise in a philosophically respectable manner, without allowing simulation to collapse into theorizing? Given a suitable definition, do empirical results support the notion that minds literally create (or attempt to create) surrogates of other peoples mental states in the process of mindreading? Goldman amasses a surprising array of evidence from psychology and neuroscience that supports this hypothesis.
People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the mental realm? In this book, Alvin I. Goldman explores these questions with the tools of philosophy, developmental psychology, social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He refines an approach called simulation theory, which starts from the familiar idea that we understand others by putting ourselves in their mental shoes. Can this intuitive idea be rendered precise in a philosophically respectable manner, without allowing simulation to collapse into theorizing? Given a suitable definition, do empirical results support the notion that minds literally create (or attempt to create) surrogates of other peoples mental states in the process of mindreading? Goldman amasses a surprising array of evidence from psychology and neuroscience that supports this hypothesis.
Alvin I. Goldman is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.7.2006 |
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Reihe/Serie | Philosophy of Mind Series |
Zusatzinfo | 7 line drawings |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 242 mm |
Gewicht | 693 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-513892-9 / 0195138929 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-513892-4 / 9780195138924 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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