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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820544703321

Titolo

Metarepresentations : a multidisciplinary perspective / / edited by Dan Sperber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-19-773087-6

1-280-53118-5

0-19-534968-7

1-4294-0480-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 p.)

Collana

Vancouver studies in cognitive science ; ; v. 10

Altri autori (Persone)

SperberDan

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Mental representation

Thought and thinking

Cognitive science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays based on a conference held in Feb. 1997 at Simon Fraser University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; The Evolution of Metarepresentation; 2 Making Tools for Thinking; 3 The Mind beyond Itself; 4 Consider the Source: The Evolution of Adaptations for Decoupling and Metarepresentations; 5 Metarepresentations in an Evolutionary Perspective; 6 Chimpanzee Cognition and the Question of Mental Re-representation; Metarepresentation in Mind; 7 The Mentalizing Folk; 8 How to Acquire a Representational Theory of Mind; 9 Metarepresentation and Conceptual Change: Evidence from Williams Syndrome; 10 Consciousness and Metacognition; Metarepresentations, Language and Meaning

11 Meaning, Exemplarization and Metarepresentation12 The Iconicity of Metarepresentations; 13 Social Externalism and Deference; 14 Metarepresentations in Staged Communicative Acts; 15 Metarepresentation in Linguistic Communication

Sommario/riassunto

This volume concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. It collects studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors.