

How We Think and Act Together
Individualistic accounts of social cognition primarily focus on individual subjects’ mental representations in thinking about and...


Mind Misreading
Most people think of themselves as pretty good at understanding others' beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions. Accurate mindreading...

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...


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...


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...