Agency : Its Role In Mental Development

ISBN-13: 9780863772283 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996

James Russell; James Rusell

Opis

The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of agency, meaning the power to alter at will one's perceptual inputs. The thesis is derived from a philosphical account of the role of agency in knowledge.

Spis treści

Part 1 Symbols, Models and Connections. Symbol-Processing and "the language of thought". Mental Models. Connectionism. Why Connectionism is the Representational Theory Best Places to Model Action. "Working from the Outside in". Part 2 Knowledge of Objects Self-world Dualism and the Waterdown Piaget. The Four Features and the Experience of Agency. What the Four Features Give Us. Self-locating Thought and "Externatlity". Search, Dishabituation and "Representation Permanance" in Infancy. Answering Some Objections. Some Empirical Issues. Computational Modelling of Object Permanence. Part 3 Action and Our Knowledge of Minds. Mental Unity. Bodily- awareness, Selfhood and Ownership. Agency and the Acquisition of a "Theory of Mind". "Executive" Versus "Theory-theory" Accounts of Developmental Transitions - the 6-7 transition and the 3-4 Tranistion. Autism, Executive Dysfunctions and "Mind Blindness".

O autorze

James Russell