TY - BOOK ID - 8941554 TI - Simulating minds : The philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of mindreading. PY - 2006 SN - 0195138929 9780195138924 0199786488 0199881421 0195369831 9786611158804 0198031769 1281158801 1435618564 PB - New York (N.Y.) Oxford university press DB - UniCat KW - Empathy. KW - Social perception. KW - Empathy KW - Social perception KW - Cognition, Social KW - Interpersonal perception KW - Social cognition KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Perception KW - Social cognitive theory KW - Attitude (Psychology) KW - Caring KW - Emotions KW - Social psychology KW - Sympathy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8941554 AB - 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. ER -