The future of social cognition: paradigms, concepts and experiments
Autor: | Nivedita Gangopadhyay |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
Cognitive science
Philosophy of science Interaction theory Philosophy 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Simulated reality 050105 experimental psychology Epistemology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Social cognition Motor cognition Theory of mind Theory-theory Premack's principle 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Synthese. 194:655-672 |
ISSN: | 1573-0964 0039-7857 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-016-1162-5 |
Popis: | Since the publication of Premack and Woodruff’s classic paper introducing the notion of a ‘theory of mind’ (Premack and Woodruff in Behav Brain Sci 1(4):515–526, 1978), interdisciplinary research in social cognition has witnessed the development of theory–theory, simulation theory, hybrid approaches, and most recently interactionist and perceptual accounts of other minds. The challenges that these various approaches present for each other and for research in social cognition range from adequately defining central concepts to designing experimental paradigms for testing empirical hypotheses. But is there any approach that promises to dominate future interdisciplinary research in social cognition? Is social cognition witnessing a gradual paradigm shift where hitherto grounding notions such as theory of mind are no longer viewed as explanatorily necessary? Or have we simply lost our way in attempting to devise adequate experimental setups that could sway the debate in favour of one of the contending accounts? This special issue addresses these questions in an attempt to discover what the future holds for interdisciplinary research in social cognition. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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