Mindreading and Empathy
Abstract: This paper discusses Marraffa’s essay with regard to his views about (a) the presumed difference in the genealogies of mindreading (the capacity for reading others’ mental states) and introspection (the same capacity turned on one’s own mind) and (b) the faculties entailed in both processe...
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Abstract: This paper discusses Marraffa’s essay with regard to his views about (a) the presumed difference in the genealogies of mindreading (the capacity for reading others’ mental states) and introspection (the same capacity turned on one’s own mind) and (b) the faculties entailed in both processes. Contra Marraffa, ontogenetic and phylogenetic arguments will be provided to argue for a common innate and modular origin of both processes (but the ontological and functional priority of third-person mindreading will be recognized). Furthermore, the theoretical and inferential nature of human psychological processes will be discussed in order to describe them in a way that more adequately accounts for the complexity of the innate and acquired features of the human being. |
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