Mental Simulation

Martin Davies is Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford and a Fellow od Chorpus Christi College. He was formerly a Lecturer and then Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. He has published widely in the areas of philosophy of language, mind and psychology, and from 1989 to 1995 was the Executive Editor of the journal Mind and Language (Blackwell Publishers). Tony Stone is Head of the Psychology Group and Director of the Modular Programme at King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester. He has published papers on the philosophy of psychology, and is currently working on a book on the philosophical issues raised by cognitive neuropsychology.

• List of contributors viiAcknowledgements ixIntroduction 1Tony Stone and Martin Davies1. Simulation and Psychological Concepts 19Gary Fuller2. How to Think about Thinking 33            Jane Heal3. Simulation Without Introspection of Interference from Me to You 53Robert M. Gordon 53     4. Theories of the Mind in Collision: Plausibility and Authority 68 Norman H. Freeman5. Second Thoughts on Simulation 87Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols6. A Theory of the Child's Theory of Mind 109Jerry A. Foder7. Knowledge and Ability in"Theory of Mind": One-eyed Overview of a Debate 123             Alan M. Leslie and Tim P. German8. Imagination and Simulation: Aesthetics Meets Cognitive Science 151   Gregory Currie9. Imagining and Pretending 170Paul L. Harris10. Empathy, Mind, and Morals 185Alvin I. Goldman11. Self-knowledge, Error and Disorder 209Derek Bolton12. Game Theory and Knowledge by Simulation 235Adam Morton13. Simulative Reasoning, Common-sense Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence 247John A. BarndenAuthor Index 273Subject Index 279