Child, William - Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind

This book is an essay on two themes in the philosophy of mind, and on the relations between them. One theme is the idea that we can give an account of belief, desire, and the other propositional attitudes by giving an account of the ascription of attitudes to a subject on the basis of what she says and does. The other theme is the idea that the concepts of ordinary, common-sense psychology—the concepts of action, perception, memory, and so on—are essentially causal.