Predicative Minds The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking

Name: Predicative Minds The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking
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ISBN: 9780262026369

ISBN-10: 0262026368

ISBN-13: 9780262026369

Edition: 2009

Authors: Radu J. Bogdan

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The predicative mind singles out and represents an item in order to attribute to it a property, a relation, an action, an evaluation; it thinks, and says, of a house that it is big, of a car that it is to the left of the house, of a cat that it is about to jump, of a hypothesis that it is plausible. The capacity to predicate appears to be neither innate nor learned, yet it is universal among humans. Puzzling in evolutionary, developmental, and philosophical terms, the mental competence for predication still awaits a coherent and plausible explanation. In this exploration of the predicative roots of human thinking, Radu Bogdan takes up the challenge. Bogdan argues that predication is not…

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List price: $6.75
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/9/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
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.



Preface


Introduction



The Territory



The Many Faces of Predication



Dimensions of Predication



Two Kinds of Propositions



Coinstantiation



Tales of Predication



Fregean Predication



Linguistic Predication



Animal Predication



Interpretative Predication



Perceptual Predication



Pragmatic Predication



Toward an Explanation



A Hypothesis



Why Development



Two Evolutionary Games



Ontogenetic Staircase



Mental Redesign



Roots



Coregulative Communication



Imperative Communication



A Sense of Other Minds



Assembly



Joint Ventures



Shared Naming



Linguistic Takeover



Thinking Predicatively



Epilogue



Implications and Speculations



Incidental Predicator



Assembly Work



Way Back When



Retrospective


Notes


References


Index