Structured models of kinds of mind-readers are explanatory tools in philosophy and psychology. Structure means that a structure like a theory with certain properties organizes the model of a kind of a reader. Structur...Structured models of kinds of mind-readers are explanatory tools in philosophy and psychology. Structure means that a structure like a theory with certain properties organizes the model of a kind of a reader. Structured models serve to explain mind-reading capabilities in opposition to pure behavior-reading capabilities by explicating properties of the structure that bring on specific capabilities of mind-reading. Typically, grades of fulfilling reading-capabilities are related to grades of rationality. But it is unclear： （1） when we are legitimated to title a reader a mind-reader or behavior-reader, and （2） how the kinds of readers are related with each other （if they can be related by a measure）. I argue that we know a reader if we can construct it and this gives legitimation. But it is unclear how to construct border-cases of readers, for example, minimal mind-readers. Should minimal mind-readers be constructed on the base of ＂reduced＂ mind-readers, or should they be constructed as ＂enriched＂ behavior-readers？ This is the specific question concerning the relations between readers the essay deals with by trying to reduce a maximal mind-reader by Craig-reduction. Because this kind of reduction-method fails, constructing specific kinds of mind-readers needs further research.展开更多
文摘Structured models of kinds of mind-readers are explanatory tools in philosophy and psychology. Structure means that a structure like a theory with certain properties organizes the model of a kind of a reader. Structured models serve to explain mind-reading capabilities in opposition to pure behavior-reading capabilities by explicating properties of the structure that bring on specific capabilities of mind-reading. Typically, grades of fulfilling reading-capabilities are related to grades of rationality. But it is unclear： （1） when we are legitimated to title a reader a mind-reader or behavior-reader, and （2） how the kinds of readers are related with each other （if they can be related by a measure）. I argue that we know a reader if we can construct it and this gives legitimation. But it is unclear how to construct border-cases of readers, for example, minimal mind-readers. Should minimal mind-readers be constructed on the base of ＂reduced＂ mind-readers, or should they be constructed as ＂enriched＂ behavior-readers？ This is the specific question concerning the relations between readers the essay deals with by trying to reduce a maximal mind-reader by Craig-reduction. Because this kind of reduction-method fails, constructing specific kinds of mind-readers needs further research.
