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  • Cognitive Science
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Philosophy of Mind

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  • Theories of cultural learning and mindreading are often analogized to text reading.
  • This analogy suggests mindreading involves decoding observable stimuli, similar to deciphering written text.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an alternative framework for understanding the relationship between cultural learning and the development of mindreading abilities.
  • To challenge the direct analogy between mindreading and text reading.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of existing theories on cultural learning and mindreading.
  • Comparative analysis of the processes involved in text reading versus mindreading.

Main Results:

  • Mindreading, unlike text reading, does not rely on decoding observable stimuli.
  • Both mindreading and text reading necessitate the identification and utilization of relevant inferences.
  • The core challenge in mindreading lies in identifying these crucial inferences.

Conclusions:

  • Cultural learning's primary contribution to mindreading may be fostering an 'apprenticeship in thinking like a mindreader'.
  • This emphasizes inferential reasoning and perspective-taking over stimulus decoding.