Developing Theories of Mind

Part 1 Developmental origins of children's knowledge about the mind: some implications of pretence for mechanisms underlying the child's theory of mind, A.M.Leslie; theory of mind and the structure of conscious experience, C.N.Johnson; first steps in the child's theorizing about the mind, H.M.Wellman; children's understanding of perceptibility, I.Yaniv and M.Shatz; the development of the understanding of human behaviour from agency to intentionality, D.Poulin-Doubois and T.R.Shultz; early forms of thought about thoughts some simple linguistic expressions of mental state, C.Fleisher Feldman. Part 2 Coordinating representational states with the world - understanding the relationship between percepion knowledge and reality: developing semantics for theories of mind from propositional attitudes to mental representation, J.Perner; a second stage in children's conception of mental life understanding informational accesses as origins of knowledge and belief, H.Wimmer et al; knowing you've changed your mind - children's understanding of representational change, J.W.Astington and A.Gopnik; the development of children's understanding of the seeing-knowing distinction, M.Taylor; the ontogeny of common sense, L.Forguson and A.Gopnik; the development of children's knowledge about the mind - from cognitive connections to mental representations, J.H.Flavell. Part 3 Further development of a theory of mind - understanding mental states in social interaction and communication: high-order beliefs and intentions in children's understanding of social interaction, J.Perner; children's understanding of real and apparent emotion, P.L.Harris and D.Gross; children's knowledge about representations of intended meaning, C.R.Beal; what is said and what is meant in referential communication, G.Bonitatibus. Part 4 Further theoretical implications of children's concepts of mind: assessing intention: a computational model, T.R.Shultz; making judgments about thoughts and things, J.Russell; doubt and developing theories of mind, M.Chandler; on the origins of beliefs and other intentional states in children, D.R.Olson.