The structure and development of understanding actions and reasons

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Albert Newen; Professor Dr. Tobias Schlicht
• Subject Area: Theoretical Philosophy ; Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Term: from 2018 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 389345561

• Final Report Year: 2025

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Publications

• Theories of understanding others: The need for a new account and the guiding role of the person model theory. Belgrade Philosophical Annual(31), 127-153.
  Coninx, Sabrina & Newen, Albert
  
• Teleology and mentalizing in the explanation of action. Synthese, 198(4), 2941-2957.
  Peters, Uwe
  
• Determining the Function of Social Referencing: The Role of Familiarity and Situational Threat. Frontiers in Psychology, 11.
  Ehli, Samantha; Wolf, Julia; Newen, Albert; Schneider, Silvia & Voigt, Babett
  
• How to ascribe beliefs to animals. Mind & Language, 37(1), 3-21.
  Newen, Albert & Starzak, Tobias
  
• The Situational Mental File Account of the False Belief Tasks: A New Solution of the Paradox of False Belief Understanding. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(4), 717-744.
  Newen, Albert & Wolf, Julia
  
• Rethinking Integration of Epistemic Strategies in Social Understanding: Examining the Central Role of Mindreading in Pluralist Accounts. Erkenntnis, 88(7), 2967-2995.
  Wolf, Julia; Coninx, Sabrina & Newen, Albert
  
• Teleology first: Goals before knowledge and belief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44.
  Schlicht, Tobias; Brandl, Johannes L.; Esken, Frank; Glock, Hans-Johann; Newen, Albert; Perner, Josef; Poprawe, Franziska; Schmidt, Eva; Strasser, Anna & Wolf, Julia
  
• The Paradox of False Belief Understanding. De Gruyter.
  Wolf, Julia
  
• The role of mindreading in a pluralist framework of social cognition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 43
  Wolf, J. & Coninx, S.
  
• A conceptual framework for empathy in humans and nonhuman animals. Wittgenstein and Beyond, 203-224. Routledge.
  Newen, Albert; Griem, Maja & Pika, Simone
  
• Implications of pretend play for Theory of Mind research. Synthese, 200(6).
  Wolf, Julia
  
• Proactive control and agency. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 23(1), 43-61.
  Baston, René
  
• Concepts are specifically structured and handled mental files. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46, 5646–5652
  Marchi, F. & Newen, A.
  
• I expect you to be happy, so I see you smile: A multidimensional account of emotion attribution. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 110(2), 552-575.
  Berio, Leda & Newen, Albert
  
• Self-Other Perspectives and the Development of Perspective Understanding. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  Wolf, J.
  
• Learning folk psychology. The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping, 112-122. Routledge.
  Wolf, Julia