Essays based on a conference held in Feb. 1997 at Simon Fraser University
Includes bibliographical references
Making tools for thinking / Daniel C. Dennett -- The mind beyond itself / Robert A. Wilson -- Consider the source : the evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentations / Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective / Dan Sperber -- Chimpanzee cognition and the question of mental re-representation / Andrew Whiten -- The mentalizing folk / Alvin I. Goldman -- How to acquire a representational theory of mind / Alan M. Leslie -- Metarepresentation and conceptual change : evidence from Williams syndrome / Susan Carey and Susan C. Johnson -- Consciousness and metacognition / David M. Rosenthal -- Meaning, exemplarization and metarepresentation / Keith Lehrer -- The iconicity of metarepresentations / François Recanati -- Social externalism and deference / Steven Davis -- Metarepresentations in staged communicative acts / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Metarepresentation in linguistic communication / Deirdre Wilson