This book offers arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology, a view which Ratcliffe suggests is a theoretically motivated abstraction. His alternative account draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology, exploring patterned interactions in shared social situations.

Autorentext
MATTHEW RATCLIFFE is Reader in Philosophy at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality (2008) and co-editor of Folk Psychology Re-assessed (2007).

Inhalt
Commonsense Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation Where is the Commonsense in Commonsense Psychology? The World We Live in Letting the World do the Work Perceiving Actions The Second Person Beliefs and Desires The Personal Stance