Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading

by Alvin I. Goldman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195138929
• ISBN13: 9780195138924
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.6"