Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds
Issues in Philosophy and Psychology
Series: Consciousness & Self-Consciousness Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 March 2005
- ISBN 9780199245635
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 234x156x20 mm
- Weight 525 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 table, numerous halftones and line drawings 0
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Short description:
Some time around their first birthday, children begin to engage in 'triadic' interactions, i.e. interactions with adults that turn specifically on both child and adult jointly attending to an object in their surroundings. Recognized as a developmental milestone amongst psychologists for some time, joint attention has recently also started to attract the attention of philosophers. This volume brings together, for the first time, psychological and philosophical perspectives on the nature and significance of joint attention. Original contributions by leading researchers in both disciplines explore the idea that joint attention has a key foundational role to play in the emergence of communicative abilities, psychological understanding, and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Joint attention, communication, and mind
Joint attention and understanding the mind
What chimpanzees know about seeing revisited: an explanation of the third kind
Joint attention and the notion of subject: insights from apes, normal children, and children with autism
Before the 'Third Element': understanding attention to self
Infants' understanding of the actions involved in joint attention
Infant pointing: Harlequin, servant of two masters
Understanding the role of communicative intentions in word learning
What puts the jointness into joint attention?
Why do children with autism have a joint attention impairment?
Joint attention and the problem of other minds
Joint reminiscing as joint attention to the past
Joint attention and common knowledge
Joint attention: its nature, reflexivity, and relation to common knowledge?
