Do Apes Read Minds?: Toward a New Folk Psychology

by Kristin Andrews

An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.

By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in environments ranging from the family home to the local mall and beyond. In philosophy of mind, our understanding of others has been largely explained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017555
• ISBN13: 9780262017558
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher