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(2014) Theory of mind and science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
This brief conclusion relies upon another distinction very relevant to studies of theory of mind and empathy, between what Joseph LeDoux calls the "low road" and the "high road." Science fiction, it is claimed, is particularly adept at weaving its way between these two roads. Finally, it is suggested that not only do theory of mind (which may be thought of as occupying the high road) and the closely related idea of empathy (the low road) open up a new and particularly rewarding way of reading science fiction; but, conversely science fiction represents a powerful arena for staging questions of theory of mind and empathy and related distinctions made by today's neuroscientists and others, the importance of which we are only just beginning to grasp.
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Pagan, N. O. (2014). Conclusion, in Theory of mind and science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 67-70.
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