Introduction

Each of the four pictures of the mind explored in Part I offers different answers to the interface problem (the problem of explaining how the ways we make sense of each other by using the basic categories and generalizations of commonsense psychology interface with the type of explanations offered lower down in the hierarchy of explanation). The differences between the four pictures of the mind are at least in part a function of differences in how they view commonsense psychology and the constraints that its success (or otherwise) imposes upon a general account of the mind. The papers in Part II all focus on how to understand commonsense psychology and the practices of explanation and prediction that make use of it.