Joint Ventures: Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition

355 Pages·2013·1.59 MB·English

by  Alvin I. Goldman

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Joint Ventures
Mindreading, Mirroring,
and Embodied Cognition
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Alvin I. Goldman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Goldman, Alvin I., 1938–
Joint ventures: mindreading, mirroring, and embodied cognition / Alvin I. Goldman.
p. cm.
ISBN 978–0–19–987418–7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Philosophy of mind. 2. Metaphysics. 3. Cognitive neuroscience. I. Title.
BD418.3.G67 2012
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2012036715

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CONTENTS
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Introduction 1
PART ONE: Mindreading and Simulation
1. Th eory of Mind (2012) 19
2. Mirror Neurons and the Simulation Th eory of Mindreading
(with Vittorio Gallese) (1998) 45
3. S imulationist Models of Face-Based Emotion Recognition
(with Chandra Sekhar Sripada) (2005) 63
4. Mirroring, Mindreading, and Simulation (2008) 89
5. Mindreading by Simulation: Th e Roles of Imagination and
Mirroring (with Lucy Jordan) (forthcoming) 110
6. Th e Psychology of Folk Psychology (1993) 135
PART TWO: Empathy and Embodied Cognition
7. Empathy, Mind, and Morals (1992) 173
8. Two Routes to Empathy: Insights from Cognitive
Neuroscience (2011) 198
9. Is Social Cognition Embodied? (with Fr é d é rique
de Vignemont) (2009) 218
10. A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science (2012) 233
PART THREE: Th e Metaphysics of Action
11. Th e Individuation of Action (1971) 259
12. A Program for “Naturalizing” Metaphysics, with Application
to the Ontology of Events (2007) 273
13. Actions, Predictions, and Books of Life (1968) 297
Name Index 327
Subject Index 335
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