Developmental psychology has been swept by a particularly powerful idea: that a person’s ability to use certain mental concepts to gain access to other people’s mental states is best characterised as the development and the operation of a theory: a theory of mind.
Comprehensive Bibliography (coming soon)
Papers/Articles on the Web
- NEH Seminar (1999): Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: how minds understand minds
“This page provides access to work that was discussed at, inspired by, or is otherwise relevant to the seminar “Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: How Minds Understand Minds,” a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers held at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, from June 14 to July 16, 1999.”
- Gordon, Cruz: Simulation Theory
Draft entry prepared for The Nature Publishing Group Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Editor in chief: Lynn Nadel).
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Folk Psychology as Mental Simulation
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Folk Psychology as a Theory
