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...
Overextended Cognition
Extended cognition is the view that some cognitive processes extend beyond the brain. One prominent strategy of arguing against extended...
Embodied Social Cognition
In this paper I evaluate embodied social cognition, embodied cognition’s account of how we understand others. I identify and evaluate...
A Critique of Embodied Simulation
Social cognition is the capacity to understand and interact with others. The mainstream account of social cognition is mindreading, the...
Embodied Cognition and Mindreading
Recently, philosophers and psychologists defending the embodied cognition research program have offered arguments against mindreading as...
