Joint ventures: mindreading, mirroring, and embodied cognition

What distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading candidate is our capability for mutual understanding ('theory of mind'), our ability to ascribe thoughts, desires, and feelings to one another. This volume collects essays by Alvin Goldman, many of which have played a major role in...

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Beteilige Person: Goldman, Alvin I. 1938- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press c2013
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199874187.001.0001
Zusammenfassung:What distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading candidate is our capability for mutual understanding ('theory of mind'), our ability to ascribe thoughts, desires, and feelings to one another. This volume collects essays by Alvin Goldman, many of which have played a major role in crystallizing the 'simulation', or 'empathising', account of mindreading and showing how it is confirmed by recent findings in psychology and cognitive neuroscience
Umfang:vii, 344 p.
ISBN:9780190267674
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199874187.001.0001