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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Cognitive Science; The General Problem; The Startling Twist; What This Means for â#x80;#x9C;the Socialâ#x80;#x9D;; The Problems; Note; References; 1. Perspectives on the Brain and Cognition: The roblem Domain; Fitting the Parts Together: Physical Realizability, Reduction, and Elimination; Gintisâ#x80;#x99;s Proposal for Integration; Does This Sort of Thing Actually Explain Social Life?; Note; References; 2. Standard and Non-Standard Approaches to Cognitive Science; The Standard Computational Model and Its Logic |
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Some Reservations about the Standard ModelBeyond the Standard Model?; Representations Reconsidered; Puzzles of Encoding; Innateness and Universality; Notes; References; 3. Folk Psychology, the Background, and the Standard Model; What Can Be Learned and What Canâ#x80;#x99;t Be; Starting from the Anomalies; Theory of Mind; Tacitness, the Background, and Speed; Simulation Theory; Notes; References; 4. Explaining and Understanding Action; The Trouble with Intention; The Alternatives; The Action Model Reconsidered and Replaced; An Alternative Account of Action; Conscious Effort; Notes; References |
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5. Incorporating the Social into Cognitive Science: Affordances, Scaffolding, and Computational ComplexityComputational Load and the Tacit; Affordances; Scaffolding; Notes; References; 6. Selves, Persons, and the Social; The Problems: A Guide; The Mirror Neuron Alternative; Infant Imitation, Infant Social Selves?; Personal Experience as the Core of the Self; Some Not Very Good Answers: Selves and the Problem of Coherence; The Self as a Problem; Note; References; 7. Social Theory and Cognitive Science; Starting from the Top; The Standard Model, Agency, and Social Theory |
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Rethinking the Social and the â#x80;#x9C;Collectiveâ#x80;#x9D;Models of Thought: Redundant Variation vs. Computation; So Is There an Alternative?; The Problem of Morals as Social Theory; Notes; References; 8. The Two Socials and the Verstehen Bubble; The Bubble, the Tacit, and the Causal; Reasons, Desires, and the Autonomous Agent; Practices; Plausibility and the Social: A Short Afterword; References; Index |
| Summary |
"The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years. Findings pour forth, and major initiatives for brain research continue. The social sciences have responded to this development slowly--for good reasons. The implications of particular controversial findings, such as the discovery of mirror neurons, have been ambiguous, controversial within neuroscience itself, and difficult to integrate with conventional social science. Yet many of these findings, such as those of experimental neuro-economics, pose very direct challenges to standard social science. At the same time, however, the known facts of social science, for example about linguistic and moral diversity, pose a significant challenge to standard neuroscience approaches, which tend to focus on "universal" aspects of human and animal cognition. A serious encounter between cognitive neuroscience and social science is likely to be challenging, and transformative, for both parties. Although a literature has developed on proposals to integrate neuroscience and social science, these proposals go in divergent directions. None of them has a developed conception of social life. This book surveys these issues, introduces the basic alternative conceptions both of the mental world and the social world, and show how, with sufficient modification, they can be fit together in plausible ways. The book is not a "new theory " of anything, but rather an exploration of the critical issues that relate to the social aspects of cognition which expands the topic from the social neuroscience of immediate interpersonal interaction to the whole range of places where social variation interacts with the cognitive. The focus is on the conceptual problems produced by any attempt to take these issues seriously, and also on the new resources and considerations relevant to doing so. But it is also on the need for a revision of social theoretical concepts in order to utilize these resources. The book points to some conclusions, especially about how the process of what was known as socialization needs to be understood in cognitive science friendly terms. But there is no attempt to resolve the underlying issues within cognitive science, which will doubtless persist."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 15, 2018) |
| Subject |
Cognitive science.
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Social sciences.
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Social Sciences
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social sciences.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Cognitive science
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Social sciences
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351180504 |
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1351180509 |
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9781351180511 |
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1351180517 |
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9781351180528 |
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1351180525 |
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9781351180498 |
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1351180495 |
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0815385676 |
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9780815385677 |
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0815385692 |
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9780815385691 |
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