Whose mind? Two interpretations of what it is to directly perceive other minds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20401029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrizio Lo Presti (0000-0003-1573-6849, Lund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 419-437 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-3543 • E-ISSN: 1461-7447 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959354316650943 |
| OpenAlex | W2400867063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 44 |
According to direct perception theory (DPT) people understand each other’s minds by way of perceiving each other’s behavioral engagements in the world. I argue that DPT admits of two interpretations. One interpretation is found in Searle’s social ontology. The other interpretation departs from an enactivist account of social cognition. Both can make sense of what it is to perceive other minds, but in two different ways. The first claims that people can directly perceive states of mind shared in a community. In contrast, the second interpretation allows for direct perception of particular individuals’ states of mind in the context of participation in social practices. The two interpretations are argued to be compatible. People can perceive communal states of mind in another’s responsiveness to action possibilities in social environments, not only the particular other’s states of mind
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Ontology · Perception · Philosophy of mind · Social cognition · Theory of mind · Action Observation and Synchronization · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Making the Social World
The socially extended mind
Can social interaction constitute social cognition?
Situated Normativity
Understanding and sharing intentions
Social understanding through direct perception? Yes, by interacting
Direct perception in the intersubjective context
Empathy and the responsiveness to social affordances
The Role of Affordances in the Evolutionary Process Reconsidered
Agential realism, social constructionism, and our living relations to our surroundings
Special Section
Intercorporeality as a theory of social cognition
Rethinking situated and embodied social psychology
Developing an understanding of social norms and games
Grasping the process of implicit mentalization
Socializing Affordances
On the Construction of a Social Reality
The Embodied Mind
An Outline of a Theory of Affordances
Norms, preferences, and conditional behavior
Status functions and institutional facts
Philosophical investigations
The Embodied Mind
Participatory sense-making
A Rich Landscape of Affordances
Collective Acceptance, Social Institutions, and Social Reality
Social ontology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |