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Joint Ventures : Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition
ISBN: 9780199874187 | 0199874182
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/15/2013
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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... MORE
Alvin I. Goldman is Professor of Philosophy & Cognitive Science and on the Board of Governors at Rutgers University. He is one of the most influential epistemologists of the last several decades, with seminal contributions on the causal theory of knowledge, process reliabilism, and social epistemology. He also works at several interfaces between cognitive science and philosophy, including philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics. With over twelve books and 150 articles to his credit, he is among the most prolific and wide-ranging philosophers of his generation.
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