Theory of mind, also known as mindreading, refers to our ability to attribute mental states to agents in order to make sense of and interact with other agents. Recently, theorists in this literature have advanced a broad conception of mindreading. In particular, psychologists and philosophers have examined how we attribute knowledge, intention, mentalistically loaded stereotypes, and personality traits to others. Moreover, the diversity of our goals in a social interaction—precision, efficiency, self/in‐group protection—generates diversity in the mindreading processes we employ. Finally, the products of mindreading are varied, as well. We produce different sorts of mindreading explanations depending on our epistemic goals and the situational context. In this article, I piece together these different strands of research to present a broad conception of mindreading that is complex, messy, and interesting.

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心智理论，也称为心智阅读，是指我们将心理状态归因于主体以了解其他主体并与之互动的能力。近来，该文献中的理论家提出了广泛的思维阅读概念。特别是，心理学家和哲学家研究了我们如何将知识，意图，心理上的刻板印象和人格特质归于他人。此外，我们在社交互动中目标的多样性（精确度，效率，自我/团体保护）会在我们采用的思维阅读过程中产生多样性。最后，思想阅读的产品也多种多样。根据我们的认识目标和情境，我们会产生不同种类的思维理解解释。在这篇文章中，