Intentions and intentionality : foundations of social cognition / edited by Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses, and Dare A. Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baldwin, Dare A., editor.

Malle, Bertram F., editor.

Moses, Louis J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intentionalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 417 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2001]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Social interaction requires social cognition -- the ability to perceive, interpret, and explain the actions of others. This ability fundamentally relies on the concepts of intention and intentionality. For example, people distinguish sharply between intentional and unintentional behavior; identify the intentions underlying others' behavior; explain completed actions with reference to intentions, beliefs, and desires; and evaluate the social worth of actions using the concepts of intentionality and responsibility.

Unlike other books on intentions and intentionality, this book highlights the roles these concepts play in social cognition. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it offers cutting-edge work from researchers in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology and in philosophy, primatology, and law. It includes both conceptual and empirical contributions.

Contents:

Introduction: The Significance of Intentionality / Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses, Dare A. Baldwin 1

I Desires, Intentions, and Intentionality

1 Acting Intentionally: Probing Folk Notions / Alfred R. Mele 27

2 The Distinction between Desire and Intention: A Folk-Conceptual Analysis / Bertram F. Malle, Joshua Knobe 45

3 Some Thoughts on Ascribing Complex Intentional Concepts to Young Children / Louis J. Moses 69

4 The Paradox of Intention: Assessing Children's Metarepresentational Understanding / Janet Wilde Astington 85

5 Intentions as Emergent Products of Social Interactions / Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. 105

II Detecting Intentions and Intentionality

6 Developing Intentional Understandings / Henry M. Wellman, Ann T. Phillips 125

7 How Infants Make Sense of Intentional Action / Amanda L. Woodward, Jessica A. Sommerville, Jose J. Guajardo 149

8 "Like Me" as a Building Block for Understanding Other Minds: Bodily Acts, Attention, and Intention / Andrew N. Meltzoff, Rechele Brooks 171

9 Making Sense of Human Behavior: Action Parsing and Intentional Inference / Jodie A. Baird, Dare A. Baldwin 193

10 Desire, Intention, and the Simulation Theory / Alvin I. Goldman 207

11 On the Possibilities of Detecting Intentions Prior to Understanding Them / Daniel J. Povinelli 225

III Intentionality and Behavior Explanations

12 Action Explanations: Causes and Purposes / G. F. Schueler 251

13 Folk Explanations of Intentional Action / Bertram F. Malle 265

14 The Rocky Road from Acts to Dispositions: Insights for Attribution Theory from Developmental Research on Theories of Mind / Andrea D. Rosati, Eric D. Knowles, Charles W. Kalish, Alison Gopnik, Daniel R. Ames, Michael W. Morris 287

IV Intentionality and Responsibility In Social Context

15 The Social Folk Theorist: Insights from Social and Cultural Psychology on the Contents and Contexts of Folk Theorizing / Daniel R. Ames, Eric D. Knowles, Michael W. Morris, Charles W. Kalish, Andrea D. Rosati, Alison Gopnik 307

16 Responsibility for Social Transgressions: An Attributional Analysis / Bernard Weiner 331

17 Moral Responsibility and the Interpretive Turn: Children's Changing Conceptions of Truth and Rightness / Michael J. Chandler, Bryan W. Sokol, Darcy Hallett 345

18 Intentional Agency, Responsibility, and Justice / Leonard V. Kaplan 367.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-410) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Intentions and intentionality.

ISBN:

9780262278942

0262278944

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