...This chapter is devoted to what parents know or believe about their children’s theory of mind. It begins by situating this question within the general and longstanding topic of parents’ beliefs about children. Issues addressed include the nature and accuracy of parents’ thinking, the sources...

...This chapter is about the impact of new technologies on creative thinking — an impact of a productive rather than a disruptive kind. New tools can suggest new scientific ideas and metaphors about nature, society, and the mind. When this happens, one can trace discoveries back to the changing...

...This book provides a radical alternative to naturalistic theories of content, and offers a new conception of the place of mind in the world. Confronting head-on the scientific conception of the nature of reality that has dominated the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, the book presents...

...Following an introductory explanation of its central question regarding the nature of idealist ethics, this chapter offers an overview discussion of what is meant by ‘philosophical idealism.’ Two contrasting modes of definition, in terms of ‘ideas’ or ‘concepts’ and in terms of ‘mind-dependence...

.... It considers two ways of rephrasing the question: What do our personal pronouns and proper names refer to? and What sorts of beings think our thoughts and perform our actions? The question is distinguished from the question of personal identity over time and from the mind‐body problem. It is then argued...

... junction RTPJ superior temporal sulcus STS temporal poles ventromedial prefrontal cortex vmPFC gray matter volume ventromedial prefrontal cortex psychopathy deception understanding dementia frontotemporal dementia sarcasm understanding Cognitive empathy emotional empathy Theory of Mind mirror...

...This chapter focuses on language and mind, in their stereotypic sense, as relatively public and private forms of intentionality, respectively. It argues that the intentional stance of human kinds is grounded in a more fundamental semiotic stance. In particular, rather than understand intentionality...

...This chapter reconceptualizes the acquisition of a “theory of mind” as entering into a “community of minds,” where language plays a central role. This reconceptualization is necessary, the chapter argues, because theory of mind is too narrowly construed as a separate cognitive domain...

...This chapter focuses on the communicational aspect of language and its role in children's developing theory of mind. It presumes that participation in communicative exchanges underlies theory-of-mind development. However, and most important, it argues that the nature and efficacy...

...This chapter explores how children's theory of mind underlies their pragmatic competence in communicative exchanges. It summarizes a growing body of literature on children's ability to talk about new (as opposed to given, or known) information. It argues that in order to tailor their speech...

... state. These findings challenge the notion that the syntactic form of how we talk about the mind forms the basis for how we think about the mind. This chapter also cites a number of studies that show a correspondence between the age at which children understand differences in point of view...

...This chapter argues that a clear separation can be made in the mind and brain between our conscious mental representations and other processes that both interact with these representations within consciousness and give rise to our sense of self, the sense of an experiencer. These two components...

...Language can be viewed as a form of mind-transforming cognitive scaffolding: a persisting, though never stationary, symbolic edifice whose critical role in promoting thought and reason remains surprisingly ill-understood. This chapter examines three distinct but interlocking benefits...

... concerning ‘the extended mind’ and the BRAINBOUND vs EXTENDED models of the mind are considered. Laland K N Niche construction Phenotype extended Beach K Cavalli‐Sforza L L Feldman M W Frisch K von Attention Bradley D Tribble E Distributed cognition Equivalence classes Kirsh D Situated cognition...

... V5 Visual area V3 Jackson S Prinz J Shaw A Carrasco M Koch C Treue S Campbell J Descriptive sensory system Event coding theory of Kercel S W Plasticity Block N Decomposition Content Grand illusion mind human cognition strong sensorimotor models perception Inner neural processes...

.... ( 1988 ) A cognitive theory of consciousness . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Baars, B.J. ( 1997 ) In the theater of consciousness: The workspace of the mind . Oxford University Press, Oxford. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195102659.001.1 Baker, L.R...

... and C-system regions displayed in Figure 13.2 . Could an individual act and speak just like other individuals without having any internal conscious experience? Belief in the possibility of so-called philosophical zombies serves as a litmus test for whether someone believes in some form of mind–body...

... to the mind sciences, mind scientists started studying ideology, and as ideological distinctions became more salient in the lawmaking process. After explaining why this volume came together when it did, this chapter offers an overview of the general sections and the individual chapters and comments...

... legal theoretical frameworks of the last half-century. Despite providing a more accurate depiction of the behavior of legal actors, this research from the mind sciences has been dismissed for decades in favor of commonsense dispositionist notions of causation, responsibility, and blame. Reference...

...This chapter reviews the book The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students (1987), by Allan Bloom. Central to Stoicism's conception of philosophy's practical purpose and of the reasons for its broad...