Interpreting minds : the evolution of a practice

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Interpreting minds : the evolution of a practice

Radu J. Bogdan

(Bradford book)

MIT Press, 1997

  • : pbk.

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注記

Bibliography: p. [283]-299

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780262024198

内容説明

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.

目次

  • The project. Part I The case for evolution: a selected competence
  • why evolution matters. Part II Instinctive practice: situated interpretation
  • practical design
  • the big little step. Part III Reflective practice
  • time for thought and culture
  • reconstruction
  • adding up.
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780262524179

内容説明

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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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA31122061
  • ISBN
    • 0262024195
    • 0262524171
  • LCCN
    96045207
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 304 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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