Human thinking, shared intentionality, and egocentric biases

The paper briefly summarises and critiques Tomasello’s (2014) A Natural History of Human Thinking. After offering an overview of the book, the paper focusses on one particular part of Tomasello’s proposal on the evolution of uniquely human thinking and raises two points of criticism against it. One...

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Autor principal: Peters, Uwe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2015
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Review Essay
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27013769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9512-0
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spelling pubmed-47718142016-03-22 Human thinking, shared intentionality, and egocentric biases Peters, Uwe Biol Philos Review Essay The paper briefly summarises and critiques Tomasello’s (2014) A Natural History of Human Thinking. After offering an overview of the book, the paper focusses on one particular part of Tomasello’s proposal on the evolution of uniquely human thinking and raises two points of criticism against it. One of them concerns his notion of thinking. The other pertains to empirical findings on egocentric biases in communication. Springer Netherlands 2015-12-01 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4771814/ /pubmed/27013769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9512-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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