Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

Name: Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
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ISBN: 9780262019187

ISBN-10: 0262019183

ISBN-13: 9780262019187

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Herman

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With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes across-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. Thiscross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind intoscholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies andresearch in the cognitive sciences. The book as a whole centers on two questions: How do people makesense of stories? And: How do people use stories to make sense of the world? Examining narrativesfrom different periods and across multiple media and genres, Herman shows how traditions ofnarrative research can help shape ways of formulating and…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Intentionality and Narrative Worldmaking



Grounding Stories in Reasons for Action



CAPA: Beyond the Narrative Communication Diagram



Situating Persons (and Their Reasons) in Storyworlds



Worlding the Story: Narrative as a Target of Interpretation



Building Storyworlds across Media and Genres



Oscillatory Optics in Narrative Interpretation: Worlding/Unworlding the Story



Perspective Taking in Narrative Worlds



Characters, Categorization, and the Concept of Person



Scenes of Talk in Storyworlds



Storying the World: Narrative as a Means for Sense Making



Narrative as an Instrument of Mind



Stories of Transformation as Frameworks for Intelligent Activity



Narrative Embedding and Distributed Intelligence



Narrative, Space, and Place



Storied Minds (or Persons and Reasons Revisited): Narrative Scaffolding for Folk Psychology


Coda: Narrative and Mind: Toward a Transdisciplinary Approach


Notes


References


Index