
Joint Attention
New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
Axel Seemann(Editor)
MIT Press
Published on 17. February 2012
Book
Hardback
504 pages
978-0-262-01682-7 (ISBN)
Description
Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention-the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature-has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what joint attention is, how it ought to be characterized, and what exactly its significance consists in. The writers for this volume address these and related questions by drawing on a variety of disciplines, including developmental and comparative psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience. The volume organizes their contributions along three main themes: definitional concerns, such as the question of whether or not joint attention should be understood as an irreducibly basic state of mind; processes and mechanisms obtaining on both the neural and behavioral levels; and the functional significance of joint attention, in particular the role it plays in comprehending spatial perspectives and understanding other minds. The collected papers present new work by leading researchers on one of the key issues in social cognition. They demonstrate that an adequate theory of joint attention is indispensable for a comprehensive account of mind.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
22 b&w illus., 3 tables; 25 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01682-7 (9780262016827)
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New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
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Persons
Axel Seemann is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bentley University.
Editor
Bentley University
Contributions
Bentley University
Simon Fraser University
University of Sussex
Tavistock Clinic
Tavistock Clinic
Tavistock Clinic
University of Portsmouth
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology