Introducing basic distinctions in philosophy of mind for characterizing the mental, Perner discusses differences in how commonsense and cognitive psychology view the mind. He traces the onset of a commonsense psychology in the social and emotional awareness of early infancy, revealing how the child begins to take a cognitive, representational view of the mind with repercussions for children's episodic memory, self-control, and their ability to engage in deception.
- ISBN10 0262660822
- ISBN13 9780262660822
- Publish Date 2 March 1993 (first published 24 April 1991)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 362
- Language English
- URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262660822