The Limits of Mindreading
(2010) In Philosophy of the Social Sciences 40(1). p.172-177- Abstract
- Contemporary cognitive psychology is dominated by an individualistic and mentalistic approach to the mind. This Cartesian heritage is evident in studies of social understanding, that is, how we understand others. It is argued that this approach and metaphors like reading minds have failed, and should be replaced with a discursive approach, where public and shared socio-linguistic intenand normative activities order and shape individual mental activities.
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- author
- Erneling, Christina LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- discursive psychology, social understanding, mindblindness, mindreading, Descartes, other minds, cognitive science
- in
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- volume
- 40
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 172 - 177
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- wos:000274917000008
- scopus:77649241498
- ISSN
- 0048-3931
- DOI
- 10.1177/0048393109352780
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Reviewed Work(s): Other Minds: How Humans Bridge the Divide between Self and Others. (by Malle, Bertam F. & Hodges, S.)
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- 94d41ac1-7c76-4200-911b-83faf3ba560e (old id 1568067)
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- 2016-04-01 10:40:45
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