Mind and Muscle-Reading

Mind Reading

If a baby starts to cry several hours after drinking his last bottle, his mother knows precisely what he's feeling: He's hungry. But suppose a woman's eyes brim with tears while she watches a DVD. Her husband sinks into the couch: What is she so upset about? She might tell him directly: "This movie is so tragic. It's all about a doomed romance." That may be true. But she could be thinking about...

Mind-, Body- and Emotion-Reading

A core requirement of human-like intelligent agents is the ability to create and dynamically maintain mental models of other agents. We suggest that such modeling capabilities must extend beyond traditional notions of “mindreading” to include inferring unobservable features of other agents’ bodies and emotions as well. We describe the modeling of agents endowed with a mind, body and emotions wi...

Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading

The central problem for pragmatics is that sentence meaning vastly underdetermines speaker’s meaning. The goal of pragmatics is to explain how the gap between sentence meaning and speaker’s meaning is bridged. This paper defends the broadly Gricean view that pragmatic interpretation is ultimately an exercise in mind-reading, involving the inferential attribution of intentions. We argue, however...

Reading your baby's mind.

Reading the Generalizer's Mind

In his new commentary, Damper re-emphasises his claim that parity is not a generalisation problem. But when proper account is taken of the arguments he puts forward, we nd that the proposed conclusion is not the only one that can be drawn. In adding the word`still' to the title of his ongoing commentary, Damper re-emphasises his claim that`parity is not a generalisation problem.' His view is th...