.... For example, recent research underscores the importance of an infant's ability to follow the intentions of language speakers in order to learn the meaning of words. The ability to achieve joint attention is typically taken to be thanks to a theory of mind in which the child infers intentions or reads minds...

... that Augustine adopts an animate theory of mind which interprets bodily movement but does not need to handle false beliefs. Augustine Burnyeat Myles Epistemology Kirwan Christopher Mentalese Phenomenology Wittgenstein Ludwig on action Animate body Aquinas Thomas Bloom Paul Protolanguage Ambrose...

...This book explores the philosophy of mind in the context of naturalism and investigates how mental phenomena are related to nonmental phenomena, publicly observable phenomena, and behavioral phenomena. It tackles these issues based on two assumptions which amount to the concept of materialism...

...This chapter looks at some nonmaterialist or idealist approaches to the theory of mind, focusing on the views of Rene Descartes and George Berkeley. It discusses the existence of certain sorts of mental phenomena in relation to the existence of nonmental phenomena, and considers whether the theory...

..., it considers the argument that all truly mental phenomena are conscious, experiential phenomena. The chapter also discusses mental ability and sorting ability associated with human beings, the concept of “mental being,” and the notion of the experiential as opposed to the mental in relation to the mind–body...

...The philosophy of mind is not concerned with all uses of the word “behavior.” Most contemporary philosophers of mind are neobehaviorists who argue that reference to behavior enters essentially into a satisfactory account of the nature of almost all, if not all, mental states and mental phenomena...

...This book has presented an account of the nature and philosophy of mind by accepting commonsense experiential realism outright as well as “intentional realism” while rejecting neobehaviorism. It has argued that nonmental, publicly observable, and behavioral phenomena are not essential...

...This book argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind, and does so at the expense of the phenomena...

... true of rocks, plants, animals, and human minds. We are all zoological nativists. And when it comes to minds, there is no reason to adopt any different conception of their form and nature: they have an innate constitution that is only minimally affected by the environment. Since the natural form...

... explanatory questions concerning how such knowledge is possible. These questions belong to the general question of how the mind fits into nature more broadly, particularly how it emerges from organic processes. Such questions provide no reason to reject the nativist doctrine, granted that natural mysteries...

... in favor of nativism; and considers the philosophical consequences of adopting the nativist position, discussing perception, the mind–body problem, the unconscious, metaphysics, and epistemology....

... to the question of how the brain makes the mind. The book discusses two ontological postulates exerting influence on the development of the theory regarding the relationship between the mind and the brain, and emphasizes that no concrete solution to the mind–brain problem is provided by macroscopic brain imaging...

... into the enterprise called biolinguistics, the overview of the subject, the seemingly connection of language and biology, and related body of doctrines. It also discusses mind-internal system, a science that extends human understanding of some aspect of the world in general. It also presents, if not briefly, studies...

... decisions of interacting players. McCabe K Singer T decision making empathy Social decision making theory of mind ToM trust ultimatum game game theory mentalizing Nash equilibrium NE O’Doherty J P O’Reilly R C Schultz W control dopamine goal directed control Bering J M Frith C D Frith U...

... the role of the frontal lobes in empathy, the link between impaired empathic ability and lesions in the prefrontal cortex, and the relationship between theory of mind and cognitive empathy. Brothers L Davis M H Decety J DeKosky S T de Waal F B M Epstein N Eslinger P J Grattan L M Hoffman M L...

... as a theory of mind emerged from positivism, not through introspecting on the meaning of mental state terms, but through examining how and under what conditions mental predicates are applied. However, a clear and logical criterion for distinguishing between observation sentences and theoretical sentences...

... intentional action. This chapter examines skeptical arguments about self-awareness as well as the awareness of one’s own mind and actions and skepticism about intentional agency. In each case, it argues that skeptics tend to misrepresent the folk assumptions about these phenomena and about such key concepts...

... Stance. It also explains some ideas that could be useful when giving a more satisfactory characterization of the Design Stance. This chapter shows that the functional knowledge could be a specialized and basic constitutive component of the more general attitude of the human mind to categorize the objects...

...This chapter aims to develop a criterion of cognition that determines whether a process counts as a cognitive one or not. The reason for developing this criterion is not because cognitive science needs such a criterion but, rather, because the amalgamated mind does. The chapter begins...

... and after making a cerebral diagnosis, films—like short stories, novels, and the sciences of memory themselves—must turn toward the mind. The chasm that separates films from psychology, psychiatry, and the neurosciences reflects the beliefs and concerns of the cultures where they are produced and consumed...