BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260405T124649Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20190809T103000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20190809T120000 SUMMARY:World-oriented mindreading UID:20260405T203147Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:20 Chancellor's Walk\, Clayton\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3800 DESCRIPTION:

Abstract: Unlike inanimate objects\, agents act in ways that are governed by their mental states: as creatures with minds\, we learn about the world over time\, perhaps imperfectly\, and act on the basis of our goals\, desires\, knowledge and beliefs. Because accurate mental state attributions help us to predict and explain the behavior of agents\, many theories of mental state attribution focus on the causal role of mental states in driving agentive behavior. Without questioning the value of agent-oriented mindreading\, I want to focus on another side of mindreading\, which we might call &lsquo\;world-oriented mindreading&rsquo\;: we learn a great deal about reality by watching how others are reacting to it\, especially the parts of it that we can&rsquo\;t immediately see for ourselves. The observed behavior of an agent is especially informative about the world if we have some sense of that agent&rsquo\;s epistemic and motivational states. \; \;I argue that we can gain fresh insight into the relationship between first-hand and second-hand knowledge from a better understanding of world-oriented mindreading.

ORGANIZER;CN=Jacqueline Broad: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR