Joint ventures : mindreading, mirroring, and embodied cognition /

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Author / Creator:Goldman, Alvin I., 1938-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 344 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302811
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ISBN:9780199891603
0199891605
9780190267674
0190267674
9780199874187
0199874182
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary platform, viewed December 19, 2013).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Goldman, Alvin I., 1938- Joint ventures. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780199874187