Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for FREE ACCESS to this landmark database

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Theory & Psychology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (11)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Sharrock, W.
Right arrow Articles by Coulter, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

ToM

A Critical Commentary

Wes Sharrock

University of ManchesterWes.Sharrock{at}man.ac.uk

Jeff Coulter

Boston UniversityACOULTERJ{at}cs.com

The Theory of Mind (ToM) is deeply dependent upon an array of (uncritically adopted but contestable) assumptions from contemporary philosophy of mind. We argue that some of these assumptions carry key and tacit but implausible conceptions of the nature and role of language in the ‘acquisition’ of ToM and seek to show that without these misconceptions ToM itself becomes superfluous.

Key Words: language • Ryle • Theory of Mind • Wittgenstein

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 5, 579-600 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354304046174
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
L. S. Shaffer
Special Section: Religion as a Large-Scale Justification System: Does the Justification Hypothesis Explain Animistic Attribution?
Theory Psychology, December 1, 2008; 18(6): 779 - 799.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Phil Trans R Soc BHome page
V. Reddy
Getting back to the rough ground: deception and 'social living'
Phil Trans R Soc B, April 29, 2007; 362(1480): 621 - 637.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
T. Colombino
Problems with a Relevance-Theoretic Account of Autism
Theory Psychology, April 1, 2006; 16(2): 169 - 177.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
A. McHoul and M. Rapley
Clarifying the Point: A Brief Response to Sharrock and Coulter
Theory Psychology, April 1, 2006; 16(2): 277 - 279.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
I. Leudar and A. Costall
On the Persistence of the 'Problem of Other Minds' in Psychology: Chomsky, Grice and Theory of Mind
Theory Psychology, October 1, 2004; 14(5): 601 - 621.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
A. Costall and I. Leudar
Where is the 'Theory' in Theory of Mind?
Theory Psychology, October 1, 2004; 14(5): 623 - 646.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
V. Reddy and P. Morris
Participants Don't Need Theories: Knowing Minds in Engagement
Theory Psychology, October 1, 2004; 14(5): 647 - 665.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
C. Antaki
Reading Minds or Dealing with Interactional Implications?
Theory Psychology, October 1, 2004; 14(5): 667 - 683.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
S. Shanker
The Roots of Mindblindness
Theory Psychology, October 1, 2004; 14(5): 685 - 703.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Theory PsychologyHome page
R. McCabe
On the Inadequacies of Theory of Mind Explanations of Schizophrenia: Alternative Accounts of Alternative Problems
Theory Psychology, October 1, 2004; 14(5): 738 - 752.
[Abstract] [PDF]