ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some central ideas from Antaki's paper entitled Reading minds, and discusses how the criticism of Theory of Mind(TOM) advanced in that paper has paved the way for later research on the concept of mind and talk in interaction. ToM denotes the ability to think about other people's mental states, and to use this capacity to try to explain and predict other people's behaviour. One hypothesis within ToM is that children develop an understanding of others' desires before they develop an understanding of their own thoughts and beliefs. The chapter emphasizes the contemporary relevance of Reading minds with reference to psychological research concerning children and child development. The most profound attempts to investigate children's interaction with a specific interest in the development of mind, has come from sociology and conversation analysis. Discursive psychology is continuously respecifying the ToM tradition, and wider array of psychological matters, substituting cognition and mentalism for a focus on psychology as action and performance.
