How "Weak" Mindreaders Inherited the Earth

Cameron Buckner; Adam Shriver; Stephen Crowley; Colin Allen

doi:10.1017/S0140525X09000570

How "Weak" Mindreaders Inherited the Earth

Cameron Buckner, Adam Shriver, Stephen Crowley, Colin Allen

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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.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	140-141
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	32
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09000570
State	Published - 1 Apr 2009

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