Interpreting Minds

Name: Interpreting Minds
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ISBN: 9780262524179

ISBN-10: 0262524171

ISBN-13: 9780262524179

Edition: 1997

Authors: Radu J. Bogdan

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Unlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretation as a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, Radu J. Bogdan sets out to establish a new evolutionary and practical view of interpretation. According to Bogdan, the ability to interpret others' mental states has evolved under communal, political, and epistemic pressures to enable us to cope with the impact of other organisms on our own goals in the competition to survive. Interpretation evolved among primates by natural and then cultural selection. As an adaptation, it is a competence in the form of a battery of practical skills that serve the interpreter's interests in social interactions.…

Book details

Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Radu J. Bogdan is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science and Director of the Cognitive Studies Program at Tulane University and Regular Guest Professor and Director of the OPEN MIND master program in cognitive science, University of Bucharest, Romania. He is the author of Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness (MIT Press, 2010) and other books.



Acknowledgments



The Project



Background



The Argument



Words



The Case for Evolution



A Selected Competence



Facts



Selection, Generally



Interpretation as Adaptation



Reasons for Interpretation



A Competence Apart



Why Evolution Matters



Interpretation Is Different



Beyond Classicism



Nature versus Lab



Pacifying Prejudices



Instinctive Practice



Situated Interpretation



Looking for Clues



The Empirical Record



The Teleological Turn



The Psychobehavioral Turn



The Psychosocial Turn



Practical Design



Experiment, Not Theory



Selected for Involvement



Goal Setting for Interpretation



Situated Cognition



Tightly Instructed Interpretation



Situated Parsers



Code and Access



The Big Little Step



Awakening to Representation



New Attitudes



Beyond Metarepresentation



Reflective Practice



Time for Thought and Culture



The Mental Revolution



Cultural Coercion



Narrative Redesign



Dimensions with Reasons



Reconstruction



The Hypothesis



Rules of Engagement



Practical Attributions



The Manufacture of Content



The Culture of Explanation



If I Were You: Simulation



Adding Up



Patterns



Minding Success?



Philosophical Tally



Looking Ahead


Notes


References


Index