Social Minds in the Novel is the highly readable sequel to Alan Palmer's award-winning and much-acclaimed Fictional Minds. Here he argues that because of its un

"Readers create a continuing consciousness out of scattered references to a particular character and read this consciousness as an "embedded narrative" within t

An exploration of why and how the human competence for predication came to be. The predicative mind singles out and represents an item in order to attribute to

A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret. In t

George Eliot (1819-1880) is known for her psychoanalysis of the majority of her characters in her literary works. In her second novel, The Mill on the Floss (18