Interpreting Minds: Teh Evolution of a Practice - Couverture souple

Bogdan, Radu J.

 
9780262524179: Interpreting Minds: Teh Evolution of a Practice
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262524171 ISBN 13 : 9780262524179
Editeur : Bradford Books, 2003

Synopsis

Unlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretation as a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, Radu J. Bogdan sets out to establish a new evolutionary and practical view of interpretation. According to Bogdan, the ability to interpret others' mental states has evolved under communal, political, and epistemic pressures to enable us to cope with the impact of other organisms on our own goals in the competition to survive. Interpretation evolved among primates by natural and then cultural selection. As an adaptation, it is a competence in the form of a battery of practical skills that serve the interpreter's interests in social interactions. Evolutionary theory does not just deepen our understanding of interpretation; without it, we cannot understand what interpretation is and how it does its job. Interpreting Minds raises many thought-provoking issues for philosophers of mind and culture; evolutionary, developmental, and social psychologists; ethologists; cognitive and cultural anthropologists; evolutionary biologists; and others interested in cognitive development.

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À propos de l'auteur

Radu J. Bogdan is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science and Director of the Cognitive Studies Program at Tulane University and Regular Guest Professor and Director of the OPEN MIND master program in cognitive science, University of Bucharest, Romania. He is the author of Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness (MIT Press, 2010) and other books.

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Éditeur
Bradford Books
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262524171
ISBN 13 
9780262524179
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
318
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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ISBN 10 :  0262024195 ISBN 13 :  9780262024198
Editeur : MIT Press, 1997
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