# The Phenomenology of Face-to-Face Mindreading **Abstract:** I defend a perceptual account of face-to-face mindreading. I begin by proposing a phenomenological constraint on our visual awareness of others’ emotional expressions. I argue that to meet this constraint we require a distinction between the basic and nonbasic ways people, and other things, look. I offer and defend just such an account. **Authors:** [[JOEL SMITH]]