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Christina Erneling

Professor emerita

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The Limits of Mindreading

Author

  • Christina Erneling

Summary, in English

Contemporary cognitive psychology is dominated by an individualistic and mentalistic approach to the mind. This Cartesian heritage is evident in studies of social understanding, that is, how we understand others. It is argued that this approach and metaphors like reading minds have failed, and should be replaced with a discursive approach, where public and shared socio-linguistic intenand normative activities order and shape individual mental activities.

Department/s

  • Department of Strategic Communication

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

172-177

Publication/Series

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volume

40

Issue

1

Document type

Review

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Communication Studies

Keywords

  • discursive psychology
  • social understanding
  • mindblindness
  • mindreading
  • Descartes
  • other minds
  • cognitive science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0048-3931