Research Catalog

Title

Roots of social sensibility and neural function / Jay Schulkin.

Author

Schulkin, Jay.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xviii, 206 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "In this book Jay Schulkin explores social reason from philosophical, psychological, and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives. He argues for a pragmatist approach, in which the role of experience - that is, interaction with others - is central to any consideration of action in the social world. Unlike some philosophers of mind, Jay Schulkin considers social reason to be a real feature of the information processing system in the brain, in addition to a useful cognitive tool in predicting behavior.
• Throughout the book, he incorporates neurobiological evidence for a domain-specific system for social cognition.".
• "Topics covered include the centrality of intentional attribution to social cognition, the rise of cognitive science in the twentieth century, the functional arguments for the role of experience, intentional understanding in nonhuman primates, theory of mind and natural kinds in children, autism as a disorder of theory of mind, and the integration of emotions into theory of mind."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Human information processing > Social aspects
• Cognition > Social aspects
• Cognition and culture
• Psychology, Comparative

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-193) and indexes.

Contents

Ch. 1. Intentionality and Social Sensibility -- Ch. 2. Cognitive and Neural Sciences -- Ch. 3. Experiments on Social Reasoning in Primates -- Ch. 4. Development of Social Reason in Children -- Ch. 5. Autism -- Ch. 6. Social Reason and Action.

ISBN

0262194473 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00026950

OCLC

• ocm43615539
• SCSB-4122562

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries