| Date | Topic | Text |
| 7.03.2023 | Introduction to the debate | Fenici, M. (2017). Rebuilding the Landscape of Psychological Understanding After the Mindreading War. Phenomenology and Mind, 12, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-21113 |
| 14.03.2023 | Theory of Mind | O’Madagain, C., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Joint attention to mental content and the social origin of reasoning. Synthese, 198(5), 4057–4078. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02327-1 Optional: Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. (1978). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(4), 515–526. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00076512 |
| 21.03.2023 | Theory of Mind | Mirski, R., & Gut, A. (2020). Action-based versus cognitivist perspectives on socio-cognitive development: Culture, language and social experience within the two paradigms. Synthese, 197(12), 5511–5537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01976-y |
| 28.03.2023 | Folk Psychology | Dewhurst, J. (2021). Folk Psychological and Neurocognitive Ontologies (pp. 311–334). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54092-0_14 |
| 18.04.2023 | Simulation Theory | Gallese, V., & Goldman, A. (1998). Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(12), 493–501. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364–6613(98)01262-5 |
| 25.04.2023 | Simulation Theory | Gallagher, S. (2007). Simulation trouble. Social Neuroscience, 2(3–4), 353–365. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470910601183549 |
| 2.05.2023 | Direct Perception | Gallagher, S. (2008). Direct Perception in the Intersubjective Context. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 535–543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.003 |
| 9.05.2023 | Enactivism, Narrative Practices | Hutto, D. D. (2008). The Narrative Practice Hypothesis: Clarifications and implications. Philosophical Explorations, 11(3), 175–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869790802245679 |
| 16.05.2023 | Mind-shaping | Zawidzki, T. W. (2008). The function of folk psychology: Mind reading or mind shaping? Philosophical Explorations, 11(3), 193–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869790802239235 |
| 23.05.2023 | Enactivism, Participatory Sense-Making | Jaegher, H., & Di Paolo, E. (2007). Participatory Sense-Making: An enactive approach to social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6, 485–507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9 |
| 30.05.2023 | Predictive Coding | de Bruin, L., & Strijbos, D. (2015). Direct social perception, mindreading and Bayesian predictive coding. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 565–570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.04.014 |
| 6.06.2023 | Perceptual Presence | Palmer, C. J., Seth, A. K., & Hohwy, J. (2015). The felt presence of other minds: Predictive processing, counterfactual predictions, and mentalising in autism. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 376-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.04.007 Optional: Smortchkova, J. (2020). Does empirical evidence support perceptual mindreading? Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 9(4), 298-306. https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.468 Smortchkova, J. (2022). Face perception and mind misreading. Topoi, 41(4), 685-694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09823-z Varga, S. (2018). Toward a Perceptual Account of Mindreading. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 100(2), 380–401. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12556 |
| 13.06.2023 | Empathy-Based Theories | Ratcliffe, M. (2017). Empathy Without Simulation. In Imagination and Social Perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315411538 |
| 20.06.2023 | Mental Representations | Talk: “Mental Representations in Cognitive Science” by prof. Michael Rescorla Optional: Rescorla, M. (2019, May 28). The language of thought hypothesis. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ |
| 27.06.2023 | Affordances | Kiverstein, J. (2015). Empathy and the responsiveness to social affordances. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 532–542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.05.002 |
| 4.07.2023 | Embodied experimental session | A bonus session led by Andreas Reichelt Gergely, G., Bekkering, H., & Király, I. (2002). Rational imitation in preverbal infants. Nature, 415(6873), 755–755. https://doi.org/10.1038/415755a |
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