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jon ICS Le ture 1 O tober 9, 2001 1 Introdu tion Goals of this rst le ture Establish di eren e between everyday and s ienti explanation Chara terise the dis ipline Indi ate key assumptions { Substantive Computation Representation { Methodologi al Identify resear h strategies Indi ate diversity of methods Introdu e the rest of the ourse jon ICS Le ture 1 O tober 9, 2001 Everyday vs s ienti explanation 2 Everyday explanation As so ial agents: We have a sense of why people do what they do. We need this sense, so as to: Plan our a tions Predi t what might happen in a given ontext Explain events What matters to us is whether our knowledge and methods are suÆ ient for pra ti al survival. Eg: it is useful to be able to infer others' states of mind from their external behaviour. Eg: it is also useful to infer the auses of their states of mind. jon ICS Le ture 1 O tober 9, 2001 Everyday vs s ienti explanation 3 Everyday non-explanation But we do not go on to ask, of our knowledge and methods: How these apa ities are possible What their limits are What happens when they go awry