Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1 An Introduction to the Puzzles of Understanding
2 Understanding As Feeling and As a Concept
Introduction
The Feeling of Understanding
The Languages of the Mind
Redefining the Problem
Cognitive Processes Involved in Learning to Ascribe Understanding
Understanding Language
Three Challenges to Cognitive Theories of Understanding
Children's Theory of Mind
Machine Learning and Understanding

Correctness As a Normative Standard for Understanding
3 The Linguistic Basis of Mind
What ''Understanding'' Means
Ascribing Understanding
4 Subjective Mental States: The Feeling of Understanding
Identity Conditions for Feeling States
Emotional Content As Intuition
Normativity for Feelings
5 Objective Mental States: Truth in the Ascription of Understanding
Truth and Belief
Truth in Understanding
6 Intersubjectivity of Mental States
7 Identity Conditions for Feelings and Concepts
Ascribing Mental States

8 What ''Understanding'' Means: Ascribing Understanding
Ascription As a Rational Normative Process
Self-Ascription of Understanding As a Mental State
What Understanding Means
9 The Referential Scope of Understanding
The Literate Bias
10 Understanding and Children's Theory of Mind
Simulation Theory
The Theory Theory
Jackendoff's Theory of Meaning
Representational Theory of Mind
Comprehension Theory
Linguistic Determinism
Rational Emotions
Two Systems Theory
Philosophy and Education
Language As Explicitness
Vygotsky

11 Understanding and Sense-Making
12 Understanding As a Learnable Skill
Ascribed ''To''
Ascription ''By''
Raising the Level of Student Reading Comprehension (RfU)
Reading and Understanding
13 Understanding in Everyday Life
Reasoning As Understanding
Political Rhetoric
14 Ascriptivism and Cognitive Development
Feelings
Senses As Concepts
Ascribed ''By'' and Ascribed ''To''
Ascriptivism
Ascription and Theory of Mind
Mental Representation
The Linguistic Turn in the Theory of Mind
Limitations of Ascriptivism

Ascriptivism and the Cognitive Science of Understanding
Concepts and the Representational Theory of Mind
References
Index