Implicit mindreading and embodied cognition

Thompson

pp. 449-466

in: Shannon Spaulding (ed), Debates on embodied social cognition, Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences 11 (4), 2012.

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the plausibility of Embodied Accounts of Social Cognition by finding fault with the most detailed and convincing version of such an account, as articulated by Daniel Hutto (2008). I argue that this account fails to offer a plausible ontogeny for folk psychological abilities due to its inability to address recent evidence from implicit false belief tasks that suggest a radically different timeline for the development of these abilities.