ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role imagination plays in our knowledge of other minds. Two alternative accounts are first discussed: according to the former, the so-called Theory of Mind, imagination has no role to play in our knowledge of other minds; according to the latter, the so-called Simulation Theory, the imagination plays a central role. While agreeing with the simulationist claim that the imagination should be accorded an important role in the knowledge of other mind, this chapter disagrees on the account of imagination endorsed by simulationists. Therefore, an alternative suggestion for the role of imagination is here proposed. The alternative role is one that accords with a perceptual, as opposed to an inferential, account of our knowledge of the mind of another.
