The Social Mind: A Philosophical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781138831483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Jane Suilin Lavelle

Opis

The Social Mind introduces and examines the philosophy of social cognition, Essential reading for students of philosophy of mind and psychology and those in related subjects such as cognitive science, social and developmental psychology and anthropology.

Spis treści

Part1: The Foundations of the Social Cognition Debate  Introduction: What is ‘The Social Mind’?  1. What a Good Account of Social Cognition Should Explain  2. The Philosophical Heritage of Mindreading  Part 2: How do we Attribute Propositional Attitudes to Others?  3. Nativism and the Infant Mindreading Hypothesis  4. Constructivism and the Theory of Mind  5. Simulation Theory  Part 3: Minimal Theories of Mindreading  6. Mirror Neurons: The Neural Basis of Mindreading?  7. A ‘Two Systems’ Account of Mindreading  8. Folk Psychologies  9. Where Next?  Appendix: Working with Babies.  Glossary  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Jane Suilin Lavelle is a lecturer in Philosophy of Mind and Cognition at The University of Edinburgh, UK.