Chiefly papers presented at a series of workshops, held in 1992 to July 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-380) and indexes.
'Radical' simulationism / Robert M. Gordon -- Simulation and self-knowledge : a defence of theory-theory / Peter Carruthers -- Varieties of off-line simulation / Shaun Nichols ... [et al.] -- Simulation, theory, and content / Jane Heal -- Simulation as explicitation of predication-implicit knowledge about the mind : arguments for a simulation-theory mix / Josef Perner -- Folk psychology and theoretical status / George Botterill -- The mental simulation debate : a progress report / Tony Stone and Martin Davies -- The modularity of theory of mind / Gabriel Segal -- The relationship between SAM and ToMM : two hypotheses / Simon Baron-Cohen and John Swettenham -- Theories and modules : creation myths, developmental realities, and Neurath's boat / Alison Gopnik -- What is theoretical about the child's theory of mind? : a Vygotskian view of its development / Janet Astington -- Desires, beliefs, and language / Paul Harris -- What could possibly explain autism? / Jill Boucher -- Simulation-theory, theory-theory, and the evidence from autism / Gregory Currie -- Autism as mind-blindness : an elaboration and partial defence / Peter Carruthers -- When does smart behaviour-reading become mind-reading? / Andrew Whiten -- Chimpanzee theory of mind? : the long road to strong inference / Daniel Povinelli -- Non-human primate theories of (non-human primate) minds : some issues concerning the origins of mind-reading / Juan-Carlos Gómez -- Language and the evolution of mind-reading / Peter K. Smith