Metarepresentations [[electronic resource] ] : a multidisciplinary perspective / / edited by Dan Sperber

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Mental representation; Thought and thinking; Cognitive science
• Altri autori: SperberDan
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Metarepresentations
• ISBN: 0-19-773087-6; 1-280-53118-5; 0-19-534968-7; 1-4294-0480-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784723303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Vancouver studies in cognitive science ; ; v. 10.