Getting Inside Your Head Joanne Procter Arguing for the conceptual priority

Arguing for the conceptual priority of ethics over religion

with guidelines and checkpoints for designing effective

and group living

In Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray

Getting Inside Your Head Joanne Procter Arguing for the conceptual priorityWe live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each others to think we know, and what we would dearly love to know but don't. Cognitive scientists have a special term for the evolved cognitive adaptation that makes us attribute mental states to other people through