Research

Publications

Journal Articles

Herschbach, M. (2015). "Direct social perception and dual process theories of mindreading." Social Perception, Special issue of Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 483–497. [preprint PDF] [publisher version]


Herschbach, M. (2012). "Mirroring versus simulation: On the representational function of simulation." Synthese, 189(3), 483-513. [preprint PDF] [publisher version]


Herschbach, M. (2012). "On the role of social interaction in social cognition: A mechanistic alternative to enactivism." Debates on Embodied Social Cognition, Special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 11(4), 467-486. [preprint PDF] [publisher version]


Herschbach, M. & Bechtel, W. (2011). Relating Bayes to cognitive mechanisms. Commentary on M. Jones & B. C. Love, "Bayesian Fundamentalism or Enlightenment? On the explanatory status and theoretical contributions of Bayesian models of cognition." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(4), 202-203. [preprint PDF] [published version]


Hutto, D., Herschbach, M., & Southgate, V. (2011). "Editorial: Social cognition: Mindreading and alternatives." Introduction to special issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 23). 375-395. [preprint PDF][published version]


Herschbach, M. (2008). "False-Belief Understanding and the Phenomenological Critics of Folk Psychology."Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15(12), 33-56. [PDF]


Herschbach, M. (2008). "Folk Psychological and Phenomenological Accounts of Social Perception." Philosophical Explorations, 11(3), 223-235. [preprint PDF] [published version]


Book Chapters

Herschbach, M. (2018). “Critical Note: How Revisionary are 4E Accounts of Social Cognition?” In A. Newen, L. De Bruin, & S. Gallagher (Eds.),The Oxford Handbook of 4ECognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [published version]


Herschbach, M., & Bechtel, W. (2014). "Mental mechanisms and psychological construction." In Lisa Feldman Barrett and James Russell (Eds.), The Psychological Construction of Emotion (pp. 21-44). New York: Guilford Press. [preprint version]


Bechtel, W., & Herschbach, M. (2010). "Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences." In Fritz Allhoff (Ed.), Philosophies of the Sciences. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [preprint PDF]


Edited Volumes

Hutto, D., Herschbach, M., & Southgate, V. (Eds.) (2011). Social cognition: Mindreading and alternatives. Special issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2(3). [link to published issue]


Conference Proceedings

Herschbach, M. (2008). "The Concept of Simulation in Control-Theoretic Accounts of Motor Control and Action Perception." In V. Sloutsky, B. Love, and K. McRae (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 315-320). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]



Dissertation

Herschbach, M. (2010). Beyond Folk Psychology? Toward an Enriched Account of Social Understanding [PDF]

Committee: William Bechtel (chair), Paul Churchland, Rick Grush, Gedeon Deák, Rafael Núñez