Description
| Summary: | What distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading candidate is our facility at mutual understanding (""theory of mind""), our ability to ascribe thoughts, desires, and feelings to one another. How do we do this? Folk-wisdom says, ""By empathy -- we put ourselves in other people's shoes"". In the last few decades this idea has moved from folk-wisdom to philosophical conjecture to serious scientific theory. This volume collects essays by Alvin Goldman, many of which have played a major role in crystallizing this ""simulation, "" or ""empathizing, "" account of mindreading and showing how.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 344 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 9780199891603
0199891605
9780190267674
0190267674 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary platform, viewed December 19, 2013). |
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