Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2012

Department

Philosophy

Abstract

This essay serves as an evaluation of challenges to the orthodox way of conceiving "mindreading" abilities by defending a 2006 claim by the author that those abilities involve basic and reenactive empathy .

Required Publisher's Statement

This article is originally from Joint Attention: New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind and Social Neuroscience, ed. by Axel Seemann, published by MIT Press in 2012, pp. 265 - 292. Reproduced with permission. Original version is available from the publisher at http://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/axel-seemann

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