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Agency - Its Role In Mental Development (Hardcover)
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Agency - Its Role In Mental Development (Hardcover)
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The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the
physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the
exercise of agency, meaning "the power to alter at will one's
perceptual inputs". The thesis is derived from a philosophical
account of the role of agency in knowledge - the first time this
has been attempted in the context of developmental psychology. The
book is divided into three parts. In Part One, Russell argues that
purely "representational" theories of mind and of mental
development have been overvalued, thereby clearing the ground for
the book's central thesis. In Part Two, he proposes that, because
objective experience depends upon the experience of agency, the
development of the "object concept" in human infants is grounded in
the development of executive-attentional capacities. In Part Three,
an analysis of the links between agency and self-awareness
generates an original theory of the nature of certain stage-like
transitions in mental functioning and of the relationship between
executive and mentalising deficits in autism. The book will be of
particular interest to students and researchers in
cognitive-developmental psychology, to philosophers of mind, and to
anybody with an interest in cognitive science.
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