Autism as Mind-Blindness: An Elaboration and Partial Defence

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dc.contributor.authorCarruthers, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2007-03-23T20:22:47Z
dc.date.available2007-03-23T20:22:47Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.description.abstractIn this chapter I shall be defending the mind-blindness theory of autism, by showing how it can accommodate data which might otherwise appear problematic for it. Specifically, I shall show how it can explain the fact that autistic children rarely engage in spontaneous pretend-play, and also how it can explain the executive-function deficits which are characteristic of the syndrome. I shall do this by emphasising what I take to be an entailment of the mind-blindness theory, that autistic subjects have difficulties of access to their own mental states, as well as to the mental states of other people.en
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dc.identifier.citationPeter Carruthers. Autism as Mind-Blindness: An Elaboration and Partial Defence. In P.Carruthers and P.K.Smith (eds.), Theories of Theories of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4348
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Arts & Humanitiesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtPhilosophyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_us
dc.rights.licenseCopyright Cambridge University Press - http://www.cambridge.org/us/0521559162en
dc.subjectautismen
dc.subjectmind-blindnessen
dc.subjectpretend-playen
dc.subjectexecutive-function deficitsen
dc.subjectmental statesen
dc.titleAutism as Mind-Blindness: An Elaboration and Partial Defenceen
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