Becoming human : the ontogenesis, metaphysics, and expression of human emotionality / Jennifer Greenwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenwood, Jennifer, 1946- author.

Series:

Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology.

Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which "nature" and "nurture" are integrated.

Contents:

1 Introduction and Chapter Outlines 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Chapter Outlines 11

2 Theories of Emotion 21

2.1 Introduction 21

2.2 Emotions: Some Rock-Bottom Preliminaries 23

2.3 The Functions of Emotions 27

2.4 Feeling Theories of Emotion 29

2.5 Cognitive Theories of Emotion 31

2.6 The Social Construction of the Emotions 37

2.7 More Recent Theories of Emotion 40

2.8 Scaffolding of Emotional Development 45

2.9 Basic Emotion and Emotion as Natural Kind 48

2.10 Summary 51

3 Metaphysics and Mind 53

3.1 Introduction 53

3.2 Situated Cognition 54

3.3 Embodied, Embedded, and Extended Cognition (CT) 55

3.4 Deep Functional Integration 57

3.5 Individualism and Externalism: A Short, Potted History 59

3.6 Metaphysical Realization 62

3.7 Technological Cognitive Augmentation 70

3.8 Natural Environmental Cognitive Augmentation 72

3.9 Sociocultural Cognitive Augmentation 73

3.10 Particular Intracranialist Challenges 75

3.11 Summary: The Hypothesis of Extended Cognition (HEC) versus the Hypothesis of Embedded Cognition (HEMC) 77

4 Mirror, Mirror ... Human Emotional Ontogenesis 81

4.1 Introduction 81

4.2 The Ontogenesis of the Emotions 83

4.3 Conclusion 108

5 Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings 111

5.1 Introduction 111

5.2 Species-Typical Activity Patterns 112

5.3 TurnTaking in Human Development 114

5.4 The Emergence of Joint Attention 116

5.5 Language Acquisition in Neonates and Young Children 120

5.6 The Eyes Have It 128

5.7 Neurochemical Underpinnings of Human Prosociality 130

5.8 Summary 136

6 From Evolution to Emotionese 139

6.1 Introduction 139

6.2 Theories of Function: Rock-Bottom Preliminaries 141

6.3 Millikan's Proper Functions 143

6.4 The Continuing Usefulness Requirement 146

6.5 The Biosemantic Theory of Mental Content 147

6.6 Natural Signs and Intentional Signs 159

6.7 Linguistic Signs 165

6.8 Meaning and Its Acquisition 165

6.9 The Mark of the Cognitive 170

6.10 Summary 175

7 Loose Talk, Tight Worlds 177

7.1 Introduction 177

7.2 Metaphor: Some Rock-Bottom Preliminaries and a Very Brief History 179

7.3 The Code Model of Communication 184

7.4 Relevance Theory: A Brief Introduction 188

7.5 Explicatures and Implicatures 191

7.6 Loose Talk 192

7.7 Cognitive Environment 197

7.8 Metaphor's 3NNTs 199

7.9 Conclusions 199

8 Once More, with Feeling 205

8.1 Introduction 205

8.2 Moral Development 206

8.3 Scaffolding 208

8.4 Scaffolding 1 and Education 209

8.5 Online Activity in the World 210

8.6 Methodological Considerations 211

8.7 Concluding Summary 212.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262329828

0262329824

OCLC:

935670011

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