Social Cognition
A Literary Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389625 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Chesters (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-78 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2014.0110 |
| OpenAlex | W2049971965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The set of procedures called variously mindreading, mentalizing, or social cognition - broadly put, the process by which we know others - is one that literature can dramatize in peculiarly intense ways. This essay describes three accounts of these procedures in current cognitive scientific debate - Theory Theory, Simulation Theory, and Interaction Theory. It is argued that each account alone struggles to capture the strange blend of immediacy and opacity that confronts me when I seek to grasp the minds of others. Through close readings of two literary passages (one by François Rabelais, the other by Victor Hugo), it is further argued that literature can by contrast do exactly this. To read 'cognitively' is thus both to reveal and to enlist literature's power to think about thinking
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Immediacy · Mentalization · Sociology · Theory of mind · Action Observation and Synchronization · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |