creators_name: Carruthers, Peter
editors_name: Carruthers, Peter
editors_name: Smith, Peter K
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2001-01-09
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:28
metadata_visibility: show
title: Simulation and self-knowledge: a defence of theory-theory
ispublished: pub
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: Simulation, theory-theory, self-knowledge, Gordon, Goldman
abstract: In this chapter I attempt to curb the pretensions of simulationism. I argue that it is, at best, an epistemological doctrine of limited scope. It may explain how we go about attributing beliefs and desires to others, and perhaps to ourselves, in some cases. But simulation cannot provide the fundamental basis of our conception of, or knowledge of, minded agency.
date: 1996
date_type: published
publication: Theories of theories of mind
publisher: Cambridge University Press
pagerange: 22-38
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Carruthers, Peter  (1996) Simulation and self-knowledge: a defence of theory-theory.  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1194/1/Simula~1.htm