On Direct Social Perception
Direct Social Perception (DSP) is the idea that we can non-inferentially perceive others’ mental states. In this paper, I argue that the...
Cognitive Empathy
We have various strategies available to us for understanding another person’s state of mind. Perspective taking may be achieved by mental...
Phenomenology of Social Cognition
Can phenomenological evidence play a decisive role in accepting or rejecting social cognition theories? Is it the case that a theory of...
Simulation Theory
There has been much philosophical and empirical work on the ST in the last decade or so, and as a result it is a flourishing theory. My...
Imagination Through Knowledge
Imagination seems to play an epistemic role in philosophical and scientific thought experiments, mindreading, and ordinary practical...
On Whether We Can See Intentions
Theorists from various fields argue that we can see others’ mental states, i.e., that we perceive others’ mental states with the same...
Embodied Cognition and Theory of Mind
According to embodied cognition, the philosophical and empirical literature on theory of mind is misguided. Embodied cognition rejects...
Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition
Mirror neurons are widely regarded as an important key to social cognition. Despite such wide agreement, there is very little consensus...
Mirror Neurons Are Not Evidence For The Simulation Theory
Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in theories of mindreading. New discoveries in neuroscience have revitalized the...
Introduction to Debates on Embodied Social Cognition
Embodied social cognition (ESC) aims to explicate how our embodiment shapes our knowledge of others, and in what this knowledge of others...
