Simulating Minds by Alvin I Goldman
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.-
The Contents of Visual Experience
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Supersizing the Mind
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The Conscious Mind
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Consciousness and Fundamental Reality
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Beyond Reduction
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Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism
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The Varieties of Consciousness
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The Senses
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Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion
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The Epistemology of Non-Visual Perception
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Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge
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Attention Is Cognitive Unison
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Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind
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The Sources of Intentionality
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Identifying the Mind
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Decomposing the Will
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Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will
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Ignorance and Imagination
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Three Faces of Desire
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Does Perception Have Content?
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Seeing and Saying
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Thinking Without Words
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Feminist Philosophy of Mind
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The Conscious Brain
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Perceptual Learning
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Combining Minds
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What Are We?
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Panpsychism
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Purple Haze
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The Epistemic Role of Consciousness
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Consciousness in the Physical World
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The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality
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A Place for Consciousness
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What's Within?
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Gut Reactions
Stimulating Minds is a masterful defense of an important theory of mindreading, and landmark contribution to the philosophy of mindIt deserves a wide audience. * Philip Robbins MIND *
Alvin I. Goldman is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195369830 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195369831 |
| Title | Simulating Minds |
| Author | Alvin I Goldman |
| Series | Philosophy Of Mind Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2008-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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