ABSTRACT
One of the fundamental problems people face involves accurately perceiving and assessing what is actually happening in the world surrounding them. That is, people often have difficulty in separating out what is “out there” in the world and what is going on in other people’s heads from their own perceptual and phenomenological experiences. In some version or another, this problem has concerned philosophers of mind as well as psychologists across the range of the discipline. Thus, for example, phenomena such as egocentric thinking in children and adults, development of a theory of mind, the phenomenon of projection, ego-boundaries, and naïve realism in perception and cognition have received much attention from psychologists.
