TY - JOUR A1 - Moore, Richard T1 - The cultural evolution of mind-modelling JF - Synthese N2 - I argue that uniquely human forms of ‘Theory of Mind’ (or ‘ToM’) are a product of cultural evolution. Specifically, propositional attitude psychology is a linguistically constructed folk model of the human mind, invented by our ancestors for a range of tasks and refined over successive generations of users. The construction of these folk models gave humans new tools for thinking and reasoning about mental states—and so imbued us with abilities not shared by non-linguistic species. I also argue that uniquely human forms of ToM are not required for language development, such that an account of the cultural origins of ToM does not jeopardise the explanation of language development. Finally, I sketch a historical model of the cultural evolution of mental state talk. KW - Kulturelle Evolution KW - Theory of mind KW - Propositionale Einstellung KW - Sprachentwicklung Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-25865 SN - 1573-0964 VL - 199 SP - 1751 EP - 1776 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - No facts without perspectives JF - Synthese N2 - Perner and Roessler (in: Aguilar J, Buckareff A (eds) Causing human action: new perspectives on the causal theory of action, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 199–228, 2010) hold that children who do not yet have an understanding of subjective perspectives, i.e., mental states, explain actions by appealing to objective facts. In this paper, we criticize this view. We argue that in order to understand objective facts, subjects need to understand perspectives. By analysing basic fact-expressing assertions, we show that subjects cannot refer to facts if they do not understand two types of perspectivity, namely, spatial and doxastic perspectivity. To avoid conceptual confusion regarding different ways of referring to facts, we distinguish between reference to facts de re and de dicto. KW - Theory of mind KW - Objektivität KW - Subjektivität KW - Sachverhalt Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02958-9 SN - 1573-0964 VL - 199 IS - 1/2 SP - 3825 EP - 3851 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER -