TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1193
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1193/
A1  - Carruthers, Peter
Y1  - 1996///
N2  - 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.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - autism
KW  -  mind-blindness
KW  -  executive function
KW  -  self-knowledge
KW  -  pretend play
TI  - Autism as mindblindness: an elaboration and partial defence
SP  - 257
AV  - public
EP  - 276
ER  -

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