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Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds
Issues in Philosophy and Psychology
Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Johannes Roessler
348 pages
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1 table, numerous halftones and line drawings
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924563-5
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Paperback
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03 March 2005
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- Ground-breaking investigation of a key aspect of cognition
- Truly interdisciplinary collaboration between psychologists and philosophers
- International team of highly-respected contributors
An international team of psychologists and philosophers present the latest research into the fascinating cognitive phenomenon of 'joint attention'. Some time around their first birthday most infants begin to engage in a behaviour that is designed to bring it about - say, by means of pointing or gaze-following - that their own and another person's attention are focused on the same object. Described as manifestations of an emerging capacity for joint attention, such triangulations between infant, adult and the world are often treated as a developmental landmark and have become the subject of intensive research among developmentalists and primatologists over the past
decade. More recently, work on joint attention has also begun to attract the attention of philosophers. Fuelling researchers' interest in all these disciplines is the intuition that joint attention plays a foundational role in the emergence of communicative abilities, in children's developing understanding of the mind and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought.
This book brings together, for the first time, philosophical and psychological perspectives on the nature and significance of the phenomenon, addressing issues such as: How should we explain the kind of mutual openness that joint attention seems to involve, i.e. the sense in which both child and adult are aware that they are attending to the same thing? What sort of grip on one's own and other people's
mental states does such awareness involve, and how does it relate to later-emerging 'theory of mind' abilities? In what sense, if any, is the capacity to engage in joint attention with others unique to humans? How should we explain autistic children's seeming incapacity to engage in joint attention? What role, if any, does affect play in the achievement of joint attention? And what, if any, is the connection between participation in joint attention and grasp of the idea of an objective world? The book also contains an introductory chapter aimed at providing a framework for integrating different philosophical and psychological approaches to these questions. Readership: Scholars and students of the philosophy of
mind, and of psychology.
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Naomi Eilan, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Christoph Hoerl, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Teresa McCormack, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, and Johannes Roessler, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Contributors:
Dare Baldwin, University of Oregon
Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
John Campbell, University of Oxford
Naomi Eilan, University of Warwick
Fabia Franco, Middlesex University
Juan-Carlos Gomez, University of St Andrews
Jane Heal, University of Cambridge
R. Peter Hobson, University College London
Christoph Hoerl, University of Warwick
Sue Leekam, University of Durham
Teresa McCormack, University of Warwick
Christopher Peacocke, New York University
Vasudevi Reddy, University of Portsmouth
Johannes Roessler, University of Warwick
Mark A. Sabbagh, Queen's University, Ontario
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Amanda L. Woodward, University of Chicago
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"Although the methodological approaches that the volume brings together are widely various, its contributors have evidently learned a good deal from one another, and the result displays much more coherence than one might have expected from a book in which philosophy of various sorts shares space with primatology and with discussions of autism. This impressive coherence is heartening to the reader who has entertained fears about philosophy's ability to stay relevant when faced with psychology's unabating torrent of freshly gathered data. The volume provides every reason to suppose that joint attention is a topic on which philosophy and other disciplines can collaborate fruitfully." - Christopher Mole, Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews "The book's one paper with interdisciplinary authorship is a clear highlight — a provocative and sophisticated discussion of joint reminiscing by Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack, both of whom are among the book's editors. Interdisciplinary work is rarely so well accomplished as theirs . . . neither the contributions individually, nor the book as a whole, depends on their interdisciplinarity for their interest. The philosophical reader will, in fact, find much to be interested by at those points where the various disciplines don't naturally converge. . . . Eilan and the editors with whom she has collaborated on this volume have achieved a work that advances our understanding of joint attention and of the several important phenomena in which it has a role." -
Christopher Mole, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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1: Naomi Eilan: Joint attention, communication, and mind
2: Jane Heal: Joint attention and understanding the mind
3: Josep Call and Michael Tomasello: What chimpanzees know about seeing revisited: an explanation of the third kind
4: Joan-Carlos Gomez: Joint attention and the notion of subject: insights from apes, normal children, and children with autism
5: Vasudevi Reddy: Before the 'Third Element': understanding attention to self
6: Amanda L. Woodward: Infants' understanding of the actions involved in joint attention
7: Fabia Franco: Infant pointing: Harlequin, servant of two masters
8: Mark A. Sabbagh and Dare Baldwin: Understanding the role of communicative intentions in word learning
9: R. Peter Hobson: What puts the jointness into joint attention?
10: Sue Leekam: Why do children with autism have a joint attention impairment?
11: Johannes Roessler: Joint attention and the problem of other minds
12: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: Joint reminiscing as joint attention to the past
13: John Campbell: Joint attention and common knowledge
14: Christopher Peacocke: Joint attention: its nature, reflexivity, and relation to common knowledge?
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