Metarepresentations : a multidisciplinary perspective / edited by Dan Sperber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sperber, Dan, editor.

Series:

Vancouver studies in cognitive science ; v. 10.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental representation--Congresses.

Mental representation.

Thought and thinking--Congresses.

Thought and thinking.

Cognitive science--Congresses.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. It collects studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; The Evolution of Metarepresentation; 2 Making Tools for Thinking; 3 The Mind beyond Itself; 4 Consider the Source: The Evolution of Adaptations for Decoupling and Metarepresentations; 5 Metarepresentations in an Evolutionary Perspective; 6 Chimpanzee Cognition and the Question of Mental Re-representation; Metarepresentation in Mind; 7 The Mentalizing Folk; 8 How to Acquire a Representational Theory of Mind; 9 Metarepresentation and Conceptual Change: Evidence from Williams Syndrome; 10 Consciousness and Metacognition; Metarepresentations, Language and Meaning

11 Meaning, Exemplarization and Metarepresentation12 The Iconicity of Metarepresentations; 13 Social Externalism and Deference; 14 Metarepresentations in Staged Communicative Acts; 15 Metarepresentation in Linguistic Communication

Notes:

Essays based on a conference held in Feb. 1997 at Simon Fraser University.

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773087-6

1-280-53118-5

0-19-534968-7

1-4294-0480-9

OCLC:

476026504