1 Philosophical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2021.2014443 Coordination without Meta-representation Camilla Colombo (Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca) Francesco Guala (Università degli Studi di Milano) Abstract: Meta-representation does not always facilitate social interaction. We illustrate this claim focusing on the case of coordination, and conjecture that people coordinate using a mode of reason- ing that does not require the representation of others’ beliefs. We compare this sort of belief-less reasoning with theories that appeal to limited meta-representation, and present evidence indicating that people employ both – with meta-representation being used less frequently in coordinative than in competitive tasks. Correspondence address: Prof. Francesco Guala Department of Philosophy and PhiLab University of Milan Via Festa del Perdono 7 20122 Milano, Italy Email: francesco.guala@unimi.it Acknowledgments: This research was realized at the PhiLab and funded by the Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti” of the University of Milan under the Project “Departments of Excellence 2018-2022” awarded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). We are grateful to various referees and to seminar participants at the University of Warwick for their comments on a previous version of this paper.