?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Varieties+of+Off-Line+Simulation&rft.creator=Nichols%2C+Shaun&rft.creator=Stich%2C+Stephen&rft.creator=Leslie%2C+Alan&rft.creator=Klein%2C+David&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=The+debate+over+off-line+simulation+has+largely+focussed+on+the+capacity+to+predict+behavior%2C+but+the+basic+idea+of+off-line+simulation+can+be+cast+in+a+much+broader+framework.+The+central+claim+of+the+off-line+account+of+behavior+prediction+is+that+the+practical+reasoning+mechanism+is+taken+off-line+and+used+for+predicting+behavior.+However%2C+there's+no+reason+to+suppose+that+the+idea+of+off-line+simulation+can't+be+extended+to+mechanisms+other+than+the+practical+reasoning+system.+In+principle%2C+any+cognitive+component+can+be+taken+off-line+and+used+to+perform+some+other+function.+On+this+view+of+off-line+simulation%2C+such+accounts+differ+radically+from+traditional+information-based+accounts+of+cognitive+capacities.+And+cognitive+penetrability+provides+a+wedge+for+empirically+determining+whether+a+capacity+requires+an+information-based+account+or+an+off-line+simulation+account.+Stich+and+Nichols+(1992)+argued+that+the+simulation+theory+of+behavior+prediction+was+inadequate+because+behavior+prediction+seemed+to+be+cognitively+penetrable.+We+present+empirical+evidence+that+supports+the+claim+that+the+behavior+prediction+is+cognitively+penetrable.+As+a+result%2C+the+simulation+account+of+behavior+prediction+still+seems+unpromising.+However%2C+off-line+simulation+might+provide+accounts+of+other+cognitive+capacities.+Indeed%2C+off-+line+simulation+accounts+have+recently+been+offered+for+a+strikingly+diverse+set+of+capacities+including+counterfactual+reasoning%2C+empathy+and+mental+imagery.+Goldman%2C+for+instance%2C+maintains+that+counterfactual+reasoning+and+empathy+clearly+demand+off-line+simulation+accounts.+We+argue+that+there+are+alternative+information-based+explanations+of+these+phenomena.+Nonetheless%2C+the+off-line+accounts+of+these+phenomena+are+interesting+and+clearly+worthy+of+further+exploration.&rft.publisher=Cambridge+University+Press%2C+Cambridge%2C+UK&rft.contributor=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.contributor=Smith%2C+Peter&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F376%2F1%2Fsim3.html&rft.identifier=++Nichols%2C+Shaun+and+Stich%2C+Stephen+and+Leslie%2C+Alan+and+Klein%2C+David++(1996)+Varieties+of+Off-Line+Simulation.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F376%2F