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work_jon42l7w3jgobl2menwuj2efpe	John Michael	Applying the Causal Theory of Reference to Intentional Concepts	2013	20	.pdf	application/pdf	9761	1014	59	Applying the Causal Theory of Reference to Intentional Concepts Specifically, we argue that some phenomena in early social development !e.g., mimicry, gaze following, and emotional contagion" can serve as reference fixers that enable children to track others' intentional states and, thus, to refer to those This allows intentional concepts to be anchored to their referents, even if folk psychological descriptions turn out to be false. engaged in social interactions—such as gaze following, imitation, and emotion contagion—may stand in reliable causal relations with others' intentional mechanisms that may serve to fix the reference of intentional concepts, irrespective of which version of the causal theory one endorses. !Senju and Csibra 2008", and Hood, Willen, and Driver !1998" have even been pressing the case that an understanding of the processes by which infants track and thereby anchor reference to others' intentional states is crucial to modeling the development of intentional concepts.	./cache/work_jon42l7w3jgobl2menwuj2efpe.pdf	./txt/work_jon42l7w3jgobl2menwuj2efpe.txt