ABSTRACT
So far, I have tried to explain the philosophical problem of the nature of representation, and how it is linked with our understanding of other minds. What people say and do is caused by what they think – what they believe, hope, wish, desire and so on – that is, by their representational states of mind or thoughts. What people do is caused by the ways they represent the world to be. If we are going to explain thought, then we have to explain how there can be states which can at the same time be representations of the world and causes of behaviour.
