Abstract

This paper discusses Marraffa’s essay with regard to his views about the presumed difference in the genealogies of mindreading and introspection and the faculties entailed in both processes. Contra Marraffa, ontogenetic and phylogenetic arguments will be provided to argue for a common innate and modular origin of both processes. Furthermore, the theoretical and inferential nature of human psychological processes will be discussed in order to describe them in a way that more adequately accounts for the complexity of the innate and acquired features of the human being.