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Joint Ventures - Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition (Paperback)
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Joint Ventures - Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition (Paperback)
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What distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading
candidate is our facility at mutual understanding ("theory of
mind"), our ability to ascribe thoughts, desires, and feelings to
one another. How do we do this? Folk-wisdom says, "By empathy-we
put ourselves in other people's shoes". In the last few decades
this idea has moved from folk-wisdom to philosophical conjecture to
serious scientific theory. This volume collects essays by Alvin
Goldman, many of which have played a major role in crystallizing
this "simulation," or "empathizing," account of mindreading and
showing how it is confirmed by recent findings in psychology and
cognitive neuroscience. Regions of your brain resonate with the
brains of others when you observe them manifest their feelings in
facial affect or see them about to undergo a painful stimulus or a
mere touch on the arm. Essays in the volume explore an array of
topics in the philosophy of cognitive science, ranging from
embodied cognition to the metaphysics of actions and events.
"Embodied cognition" is a catch-phrase for a family of current
proposals in the philosophy of cognitive science. Some of these
call for a radical re-shaping of cognitive science and others for a
more measured response to repeated experimental findings that the
body-or representations of the body-figure more prominently in
cognition than previously recognized. Goldman dives into this
terrain with a theory that brings coherence and unity to a large
swath of scientific evidence. Other essays revisit his earlier work
on action individuation but reconfigure it with a psychologizing
twist. The final essay prepares the reader for a futuristic
scenario: a book presents you with eerily accurate accounts of your
past life, your present thoughts, and even your upcoming decisions.
How should you respond to it?
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