Joint Ventures: Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition Format:Paperback engaging and actionable information

engaging and actionable information

Publisher: Penguin Group

Scitech Book News 09/01/2007 pg

since the founding of the nation

Author: Avrom Fleishman

Joint Ventures: Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition Format:Paperback engaging and actionable informationWhat distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading candidate is our facility at mutual understanding ("theory of mind"), our ability to ascribe thoughts, desires, and feelings to one another. How do we do this? Folk wisdom says, "By empathy we put ourselves in other people's shoes." In the last few decades this idea has moved from folk wisdom to philosophical conjecture to serious scientific theory. This volume collects essays by Alvin