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9781138827691 113882769X The idea that humans are by nature social and political animals can be traced back to Aristotle. More recently, it has also generated great interest and controversy in related disciplines such as anthropology, biology, psychology, neuroscience and even economics. What is it about humans that enabled them to construct a social reality of unrivalled complexity? Is there something distinctive about the human mind that explains how social lives are organised around conventions, norms, and institutions? The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind is an outstanding reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. An international team of contributors present perspectives from diverse areas of research in philosophy, drawing on comparative and developmental psychology, evolutionary anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioural economics. The thirty-two original chapters are divided into five parts: The Evolution of Social Mind: including the social intelligence hypothesis, co- evolution of culture and cognition, ethnic cognition, cooperation; Developmental and Comparative Perspectives: including primate and infant understanding of mind, shared intentionality, and moral cognition; Mechanisms of the Moral Mind:including norm compliance, social emotion, and implicit attitudes; Naturalistic Approaches to Shared and Collective Intentionality: including joint action, team reasoning and group thinking, and social kinds; Social Forms of Selfhood and Mindedness: including moral identity, empathy and shared emotion, normativity and intentionality. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind is also suitable for those in related disciplines such as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, economics and sociology., The theory that animals in large social groups have bigger brains has recently been supported by computer modelling. Such discoveries are part of a much bigger theory known as the 'social mind' or 'social brain'. It is one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas of philosophy of mind and psychology and reaches far into related disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience and sociology. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Social Mind is an outstanding reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into five parts: The Evolution of Social Mind : including the social intelligence hypothesis, cooperation and evolutionary psychology The Development of Social Mind including children's understanding of mind, mind and language, and animal cognition Interacting Minds : including joint action and attention, intersubjectivity and neuroscience Agency and Decision-Making: including team reasoning, group minds, and norm-compliance Self and Others: including self and society, social memory and collective emotions. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology it will also be extremely useful for those in related disciplines such as social psychology, sociology and social neuroscience.
9781138827691 113882769X The idea that humans are by nature social and political animals can be traced back to Aristotle. More recently, it has also generated great interest and controversy in related disciplines such as anthropology, biology, psychology, neuroscience and even economics. What is it about humans that enabled them to construct a social reality of unrivalled complexity? Is there something distinctive about the human mind that explains how social lives are organised around conventions, norms, and institutions? The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind is an outstanding reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. An international team of contributors present perspectives from diverse areas of research in philosophy, drawing on comparative and developmental psychology, evolutionary anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioural economics. The thirty-two original chapters are divided into five parts: The Evolution of Social Mind: including the social intelligence hypothesis, co- evolution of culture and cognition, ethnic cognition, cooperation; Developmental and Comparative Perspectives: including primate and infant understanding of mind, shared intentionality, and moral cognition; Mechanisms of the Moral Mind:including norm compliance, social emotion, and implicit attitudes; Naturalistic Approaches to Shared and Collective Intentionality: including joint action, team reasoning and group thinking, and social kinds; Social Forms of Selfhood and Mindedness: including moral identity, empathy and shared emotion, normativity and intentionality. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind is also suitable for those in related disciplines such as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, economics and sociology., The theory that animals in large social groups have bigger brains has recently been supported by computer modelling. Such discoveries are part of a much bigger theory known as the 'social mind' or 'social brain'. It is one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas of philosophy of mind and psychology and reaches far into related disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience and sociology. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Social Mind is an outstanding reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into five parts: The Evolution of Social Mind : including the social intelligence hypothesis, cooperation and evolutionary psychology The Development of Social Mind including children's understanding of mind, mind and language, and animal cognition Interacting Minds : including joint action and attention, intersubjectivity and neuroscience Agency and Decision-Making: including team reasoning, group minds, and norm-compliance Self and Others: including self and society, social memory and collective emotions. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology it will also be extremely useful for those in related disciplines such as social psychology, sociology and social neuroscience.