This book started out as more or less the project of translating my German intro­duction into this topic from 2018 into English. But it turned out quickly that the rapid pace with which the debate about the nature of social understanding proceeds requires several adjustments in the overall structure of the book and the addition of new chapters. My own thinking about these matters has developed during the last several years obviously, and this had to be taken into account as well. The result is a more or less new manuscript, but one...