Mind in practice : a pragmatic and interdisciplinary account of intersubjectivity Bruin, L.C. de

Victor Gijsbers and Wout Cornelissen (in arbitrary order) have been my closest friends at the Leiden University, and I want to thank them for the personal support they gave me and

My pragmatic account of intersubjectivity does not so much elaborate on one single theory, but rather unites and integrates a number of recent insights and proposals that have

According to Gallagher, TT explanations of intersubjectivity in terms of mindreading presuppose that our encounters with others crucially depend on the ability to take a

17 Theory theorists argued that our social engagements crucially involve mindreading, a procedure that allows us to explain and predict the behavior of our fellow human beings

In order to infer the mental states of others, be it by means of a folk psychological theory or on the basis of an analogical premise, I already need to have some (mastery of)

If we use a two-step inverse- forward model, it is possible to explain action anticipation in the following way: first, the STS feeds a visual description of the perceived action

But despite the fact that children of this age are not yet able to use the concepts of belief in order to distinguish between their own doxastic commitments and

i) The physical realization principle: every emergent event or property M must be realized by (or determined by, or supervenient on) some physical event or property P (its