How "Weak" Mindreaders Inherited the Earth

Authors

Cameron Buckner, Indiana University - Bloomington
Adam Shriver, Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen Crowley, Boise State UniversityFollow
Colin Allen, Indiana University - Bloomington

Document Type

Response or Comment

Publication Date

4-2009

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09000570

Abstract

Carruthers argues that an integrated faculty of metarepresentation evolved for mindreading and was later exapted for metacognition. A more consistent application of his approach would regard metarepresentation in mindreading with the same skeptical rigor, concluding that the "faculty" may have been entirely exapted. Given this result, the usefulness of Carruthers’ line-drawing exercise is called into question.

Comments

This article is a commentary on "How We Know Our Own Minds: The Relationship between Mindreading and Metacognition".

Copyright Statement

This is an author-produced, peer-reviewed version of this article. The final, definitive version of this document can be found online at Behavioral and Brain Sciences, published by Cambridge University Press. Copyright restrictions may apply. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09000570

Publication Information

Buckner, Cameron; Shriver, Adam; Crowley, Stephen; and Allen, Colin. (2009). "How "Weak" Mindreaders Inherited the Earth". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32140-141.