The origins of mindreading: how interpretive socio-cognitive practices get off the ground

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buir.contributor.authorFenici, Marco
dc.citation.epage23en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.contributor.authorFenici, Marco
dc.contributor.authorZawidzki, T. W.
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-11T17:20:57Z
dc.date.available2021-03-11T17:20:57Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.description.abstractRecent accounts of mindreading—i.e., the human capacity to attribute mental states to interpret, explain, and predict behavior—have suggested that it has evolved through cultural rather than biological evolution. Although these accounts describe the role of culture in the ontogenetic development of mindreading, they neglect the question of the cultural origins of mindreading in human prehistory. We discuss four possible models of this, distinguished by the role they posit for culture: (1) the standard evolutionary psychology model (Carruthers), (2) the individualist empiricist model (Wellman, Gopnik), (3) the cultural empiricist model (Heyes), and (4) the radical socio-cultural constructivist model, which we favor. We motivate model (4) by arguing that many forms of mental state ascription do not serve the function of simply describing inner states causally responsible for the behavior of a cognitive agent; rather, they relate the agent to her environment by characterizing her practical commitments. Making these practical commitments explicit has an important regulatory function in that it supports action coordination and alignment on joint goals. We propose a model of how the ascription of mental states may have evolved as a linguistic device to perform exactly this function of making agents’ practical commitments explicit.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11229-020-02577-4en_US
dc.identifier.issn0039-7857
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/75922
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02577-4en_US
dc.source.titleSyntheseen_US
dc.subjectMindreadingen_US
dc.subjectTheory of minden_US
dc.subjectSocial cognitionen_US
dc.subjectSocioculturalpsychologyen_US
dc.subjectEvolutionary psychologyen_US
dc.subjectConstructivismen_US
dc.subjectFolk psychologyen_US
dc.subjectMental state ascriptionen_US
dc.subjectPropositional attitudesen_US
dc.titleThe origins of mindreading: how interpretive socio-cognitive practices get off the grounden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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