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Cover -- Action And Interaction -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Action -- 1: Actions And Abstractions -- 1.1 Pump And Circumstance -- 1.2 The Agentive Situation -- 1.3 Basic Actions -- 1.4 Basic Problems -- 2: Time In Action -- 2.1 Timing Is Not Everything -- 2.2 The Intrinsic Temporality Of Movement -- 2.3 Dynamical Timescales And The Sense Of Agency -- 2.4 Why Action And Experience Are Enactive All The Way Down -- 2.5 Intentional Action And The Narrative Scale -- 3: Action, Intention, And The Sense Of Agency 3.1 Initial Complexities In The Sense Of Agency -- 3.1.1 Motor-control Processes -- 3.1.2 Intentional Aspects In The Sense Of Agency -- 3.2 Intention Formation And Attribution -- 3.2.1 Intentions -- 3.2.2 Retrospective Attribution -- 3.3 Ambiguities -- 3.4 Pushing This Analysis Into The World -- Part Ii: Interaction -- 4: The Case Against Theory Of Mind -- 4.1 Two Theories Of Theory Of Mind -- 4.2 The Science Behind Tom -- 4.3 Eight Problems For Tom -- 4.3.1 The Starting Problem -- 4.3.2 The Diversity Problem -- 4.3.3 The Simple Phenomenological Objection -- 4.3.4 The Integration Problem 4.3.5 The Developmental Problem -- 4.3.6 Problems Of Pretense And Instrumental Control -- 4.3.7 The Matching Problem -- 4.3.8 Problems With The Reuse Hypothesis -- 5: Interaction -- 5.1 This Is It -- 5.2 Primary Intersubjectivity -- 5.3 Secondary Intersubjectivity In Joint Attention And Joint Action -- 5.3.1 Joint Attention -- 5.3.2 Joint Action -- 5.4 Of Three Minds -- 6: Direct Social Perception -- 6.1 Perceiving Intentions And Emotions -- 6.1.1 Perceiving Intentions -- 6.1.2 Perceiving Emotions -- 6.1.3 Non-inferential Perception -- 6.2 The New Hybrids -- 6.2.1 When Up Is Down 6.2.2 Perception And Extra-perceptual Inference -- 6.2.3 Predictive Processing And New Hybrid Theories -- 6.3 Over The Top: Some Concerns From Social Psychology -- 7: Communicative Actions And Narrative Practices -- 7.1 Communicative Action