Roots of social sensibility and neural function / Jay Schulkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulkin, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition--Social aspects.

Cognition.

Cognition and culture.

Human information processing--Social aspects.

Human information processing.

Psychology, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We are social animals, with evolved mechanisms to discern the beliefs and desires of others. This social reason is linked to the concept of intentionality, the ability to attribute beliefs and desires to others. In this book Jay Schulkin explores social reason from philosophical, psychological, and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives. He argues for a pragmatist approach, in which the role of experience--that is, interaction with others--is central to any consideration of action in the social world. Unlike some philosophers of mind, Jay Schulkin considers social reason to be a real feature of the information processing system in the brain, in addition to a useful cognitive tool in predicting behavior. Throughout the book, he incorporates neurobiological evidence for a domain-specific system for social cognition.Topics covered include the centrality of intentional attribution to social cognition, the rise of cognitive science in the twentieth century, the functional argument for the role of experience, intentional understanding in nonhuman primates, theory of mind and natural kinds in children, autism as a disorder of theory of mind, and the integration of emotions into theory of mind.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-193) and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-28328-X

1-4237-2663-4

OCLC:

61658078