The shared world : perceptual common knowledge, demonstrative communication, and social space / Axel Seemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seemann, Axel, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy)--Social aspects.

Perception (Philosophy).

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Space perception--Social aspects.

Space perception.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2019.

System Details:

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Summary:

A novel treatment of the capacity for shared attention, joint action, and perceptual common knowledge. In The Shared World, Axel Seemann offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on, and know about the world together with others. Seemann argues that creatures capable of joint attention stand in a unique perceptual and epistemic relation to their surroundings; they operate in an environment that they, through their communication with their fellow perceivers, help constitute. Seemann shows that this relation can be marshaled to address a range of questions about the social aspect of the mind and its perceptual and cognitive capacities. Seemann begins with a conceptual question about a complex kind of sociocognitive phenomenon--perceptual common knowledge--and develops an empirically informed account of the spatial structure of the environment in and about which such knowledge is possible. In the course of his argument, he addresses such topics as demonstrative reference in communication, common knowledge about jointly perceived objects, and spatial awareness in joint perception and action.

Contents:

1.1 The Raft of the Medusa p. 1

I Perceptual Common Knowledge Introduction p. 15

1 Conceptions of Common Knowledge p. 17

1.1 Common Knowledge p. 17

1.2 Common Knowledge and Justified True Belief p. 19

1.3 An Externalist Take on Perceptual Common Knowledge p. 22

2 The Regressive Nature of Perceptual Common Knowledge p. 27

II Demonstrative Reference and Communication introduction p. 31

3 Intention and Communication p. 35

3.1 The Inferential Model of Communication p. 35

3.2 The Significance of Speaker Intentions p. 39

4 Sense, Reference, and Communication p. 45

4.1 Sense and Communication p. 45

4.2 Demonstrations p. 49

4.3 Referential and Communicative Uses of Demonstrations p. 51

5 Spatial Awareness and Perceptual Common Knowledge p. 59

5.1 Spatial Awareness of Objects in Joint Constellations p. 59

5.2 Spatial Awareness of Features in Joint Constellations p. 62

5.3 The Transparency of Joint Constellations p. 64

5.4 Social Disjunctivism p. 67

6 CKMS, Social Externalism, and the Threat of Regress p. 73

6.1 Kinds of Perceptual Common Knowledge p. 73

6.2 The Regress Contained p. 77

7 Justification and Evidence p. 81

7.1 Circularity in Perceptual Reasoning p. 82

7.2 Public Perceptual Reasoning p. 84

III Social Space Introduction p. 87

8 Demonstrative Communication and Conceptions of Space p. 91

9 Perspective-Taking p. 99

10 Space and Action p. 105

10.1 The Spatiality of the Body p. 105

10.2 Proprioception and the Relational Character of Action Space p. 107

10.3 Peripersonal Space p. 109

10.4 "Coping" in Peripersonal Space p. 110

11 Social Action Space p. 117

11.2 Empirical Studies of Social Action Space p. 118

11.3 Merged and Aligned Action Spaces p. 123

11.4 The Joint Body Schema p. 125

11.5 The Multilocation Hypothesis p. 129

12 Indexical Spatial Thinking p. 137

12.2 The Significance of Joint Action for Spatial Thinking p. 139

12.3 "Here" p. 143

12.4 The Role of Location in the Self- and Other-Attribution of Motor Actions p. 149

IV Joint Attention Introduction p. 157

13 Joint Perception p. 159

13.2 Joint Attention and Joint Perception p. 160

13.3 Subject- and Object-Based Views p. 164

13.4 Some Evidence from Psycholinguistics p. 168

13.5 Proximal and Distal Joint Perception p. 171

14 Some Applications p. 175

14.1 Joint Perception and Level 1 Perspective-Taking p. 175

14.2 Are Joint Perceivers Mindreaders? p. 179

14.3 Social Space and the Perception of Objects' Spatial Properties p. 189.

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9780262352727

0262352729

OCLC:

1082365124

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