Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 529 g
Communication and Other Minds: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology
Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 529 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-924563-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford
An international team of psychologists and philosophers present the latest research into the fascinating cognitive phenomenon of 'joint attention'. Some time around their first birthday most infants begin to engage in a behaviour that is designed to bring it about - say, by means of pointing or gaze-following - that their own and another person's attention are focused on the same object. Described as manifestations of an emerging capacity for joint attention, such triangulations between infant, adult and the world are often treated as a developmental landmark and have become the subject of intensive research among developmentalists and primatologists over the past decade. More recently, work on joint attention has also begun to attract the attention of philosophers. Fuelling researchers' interest in all these disciplines is the intuition that joint attention plays a foundational role in the emergence of communicative abilities, in children's developing understanding of the mind and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought.
This book brings together, for the first time, philosophical and psychological perspectives on the nature and significance of the phenomenon, addressing issues such as: How should we explain the kind of mutual openness that joint attention seems to involve, i.e. the sense in which both child and adult are aware that they are attending to the same thing? What sort of grip on one's own and other people's mental states does such awareness involve, and how does it relate to later-emerging 'theory of mind' abilities? In what sense, if any, is the capacity to engage in joint attention with others unique to humans? How should we explain autistic children's seeming incapacity to engage in joint attention? What role, if any, does affect play in the achievement of joint attention? And what, if any, is the connection between participation in joint attention and grasp of the idea of an objective world? The book also contains an introductory chapter aimed at providing a framework for integrating different philosophical and psychological approaches to these questions.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: Naomi Eilan: Joint attention, communication, and mind
- 2: Jane Heal: Joint attention and understanding the mind
- 3: Josep Call and Michael Tomasello: What chimpanzees know about seeing revisited: an explanation of the third kind
- 4: Joan-Carlos Gomez: Joint attention and the notion of subject: insights from apes, normal children, and children with autism
- 5: Vasudevi Reddy: Before the 'Third Element': understanding attention to self
- 6: Amanda L. Woodward: Infants' understanding of the actions involved in joint attention
- 7: Fabia Franco: Infant pointing: Harlequin, servant of two masters
- 8: Mark A. Sabbagh and Dare Baldwin: Understanding the role of communicative intentions in word learning
- 9: R. Peter Hobson: What puts the jointness into joint attention?
- 10: Sue Leekam: Why do children with autism have a joint attention impairment?
- 11: Johannes Roessler: Joint attention and the problem of other minds
- 12: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: Joint reminiscing as joint attention to the past
- 13: John Campbell: Joint attention and common knowledge
- 14: Christopher Peacocke: Joint attention: its nature, reflexivity, and relation to common knowledge?
