Pt. 1. Attributing minds. Why did Peter Walsh tremble?
What is mind-reading (also known as theory of mind)?
Theory of mind, autism, and fiction : four caveats
"Effortless" mind-reading
The novel as a cognitive experiment
Can cognitive science tell us why we are afraid of Mrs. Dalloway?
The relationship between a "cognitive" analysis of Mrs. Dalloway and the larger field of literary studies
Woolf, Pinker, and the project of interdisciplinarity
Pt. 2. Tracking minds. Whose thought is it, anyway?
Metarepresentational ability and schizophrenia
Everyday failures of source-monitoring
Monitoring fictional states of mind
"Fictional" and "history"
Tracking minds in Beowulf
Don Quixote and his progeny
Source-monitoring, ToM, and the figure of the unreliable narrator
Source-monitoring and the implied author
Richardson's Clarissa : the progress of the elated bridegroom
Nabokov's Lolita : the deadly demon meets and destroys the tenderhearted boy
Pt. 3. Concealing minds. ToM and the detective novel : what does it take to suspect everybody?
Why is reading a detective story a lot like lifting weights at the gym?
Metarepresentationality and some recurrent patterns of the detective story
A cognitive evolutionary perspective : always historicize!
Conclusion : why do we read (and write) fiction? Authors meet their readers
Is this why we read fiction? surely, there is more to it!
