Overview
- Provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the interdisciplinary debates surrounding social cognition
- Engages in depth with enactive accounts and the predictive processing approach
- Includes additional reading and study questions at the end of each chapter
Part of the book series: Palgrave Philosophy Today (PPT)
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About this book
This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition. It explains and critically discusses each of the key philosophical answers to the captivating question of how we understand the mental life of other sentient creatures.
Key Features:
· Clearly and fully describes the major theoretical approaches to the understanding of other people’s minds.
· Suggests the major advantages and limitations of each approach, indicating how they differ as well as the ideas they have in common.
· Tests each philosophical theory against the best available empirical data from psychology, neuroscience and psychopathology.
· Includes suggestions for additional reading and practice study questions at the end of each chapter.
Philosophy of Social Cognition is essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate students taking introductory courses on social cognition. It is also ideal for courses on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology and sociological theory.
Reviews
In this exciting contribution to the burgeoning literature on Social Cognition, Tobias Schlicht presents perspectives from both phenomenological and analytic approaches in an original and engaging way. His deep understanding of the history grounding contemporary approaches allows him to motivate and explain them with a clarity that will benefit students of all levels.
- Dr. Suilin Lavelle, Senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and author of ‘The Social Mind’.
"This is a very comprehendible introduction to Social Cognition. In philosophers' fashion it goes straight to the important and foundational issues, yet also covers empirical details to provide an insightful evaluation of the theories. A highly recommendable textbook for Cognitive Scientists of all shades from philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, ethology, to linguistics."
- Josef Perner, Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Tobias Schlicht's book combines analytic, phenomenological, and cognitive science perspectives, grounded in historical context. It covers both longstanding debates and the cutting edge with equal assurance and verve. This is an authoritative guide to the big ideas about social cognition by one of the field's leading experts; but, more than that, it is also an accessible guide to perspectives that are often overlooked or obscurely presented, and one that provides a critical overview.
- Stephen A. Butterfill, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tobias Schlicht is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy II of Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He has been teaching and researching topics in the philosophy of consciousness, mind and cognitive science for more than ten years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy of Social Cognition
Authors: Tobias Schlicht
Series Title: Palgrave Philosophy Today
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14491-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14490-5Published: 28 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14491-2Published: 27 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-9339
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9347
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 219
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Psychosocial Studies, Neurosciences, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociological Theory