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18 Dec 08
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My current research is focused on two large clusters of issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
MIND READING: The first of these is centered around the phenomenon of "mind reading" -- the process by which we come to know about the mental states of other people. One view (the so-called "theory-theory") maintains that in forming beliefs about other people's mental states we rely on a tacit psychological theory (often called "folk psychology"). Another view (the "simulation theory") claims that we do not use a tacit folk psychology. Rather, simulation theorists maintain, we form beliefs about other people's mental states by a process in which we run some of our own mental processes "off-line". In the book I am currently writing on this debate, in collaboration with Shaun Nichols, we argue for a hybrid account of mind reading in which both theory and simulation play a role.
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: The other cluster of issues are centered around evolutionary psychology, the view that the mind consists primarity of a cluster of mental "organs" or "modules" that were shaped by natural selection to solve specific specific adaptive problems. I am particularly interested in the implications of evolutionary psychology in epistemology, ethics and psychotherapy.
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