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Roots of social sensibility and neural function
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Roots of social sensibility and neural function

Author: Jay Schulkin
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jay Schulkin
ISBN: 0262194473 9780262194471
OCLC Number: 43615539
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: xviii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Jay Schulkin.

Abstract:

"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 arguments 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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