TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rathkopf, Charles
AU  - Heinrichs, Jan Hendrik
AU  - Heinrichs, Bert
TI  - Can we read minds by imaging brains?
JO  - Philosophical psychology
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SN  - 0951-5089
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
M1  - FZJ-2022-01467
SP  - 221-246
PY  - 2023
AB  - Will brain imaging technology soon enable neuroscientists to read minds? We cannot answer this question without some understanding of the state of the art in neuroimaging. But neither can we answer this question without some understanding of the concept invoked by the term “mind reading.” This article is an attempt to develop such understanding. Our analysis proceeds in two stages. In the first stage, we provide a categorical explication of mind reading. The categorical explication articulates empirical conditions that must be satisfied if mind reading is to be achieved. In the second stage, we develop a metric for judging the proficiency of mind reading experiments. The conception of mind reading that emerges helps to reconcile folk psychological judgments about what mind reading must involve with the constraints imposed by empirical strategies for achieving it.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000760166100001
DO  - DOI:10.1080/09515089.2022.2041590
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/906464
ER  -