Autism as mindblindness: an elaboration and partial defence
Autism as mindblindness: an elaboration and partial defence
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作为心盲的自闭症:详细阐述和部分辩护
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1996
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P. Carruthers
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P. Carruthers
In this chapter I defend the mind-blindness theory of autism, by showing how it can accommodate data which might otherwise appear problematic for it. Specifically, I show how it can explain the fact that autistic children rarely engage in spontaneous pretend-play, and also how it can explain the executive-function deficits which are characteristic of the syndrome. I do this by emphasising what I take to be an entailment of the mind-blindness theory, that autistic subjects have difficulties of access to their own mental states, as well as to the mental states of other people.