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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Fernandez-Duque, Diego Baird, Jodie A. |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | The aim of this volume is to explore what it means to understand other minds. Drawing on philosophical, developmental, and psychological perspectives, the chapters in this book address a myriad of issues including how an understanding of minds develops, its significance for social interaction, and its relation to other social and cognitive achievements. Our chapter brings yet another perspective to bear on these issues. Taking a neuroscientific approach, our discussion centers on how understanding other minds – a central aspect of social-information processing – is represented in the brain. Currently in the literature there are two very different models of how the brain is organized for processing social information. One model, advocated by evolutionary psychologists, poses the existence of a 'social brain'. On this view, the human mind has evolved a set of domain-specific solutions to particular problems. As a consequence, there exists a set of mental systems for perceiving and reasoning about social stimuli, which act independently from the mental systems involved in perceiving and reasoning about non-social things. It is the content of the information – its social nature – that determines the dichotomy, rather than the structure of the problem (Cosmides & Tooby, 1992). These social modules are thought to be unique in their input (i.e., the information they process) as well as in their mechanism (i.e., the rules that govern their processing). Finally, their content-specificity is ostensibly caused by phylogenetic evolution rather than by familiarity, expertise, or ontogenetic development. In its neuroscientific strand, the |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www18.homepage.villanova.edu/diego.fernandezduque/Publications/OtherMindsDraft.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
