Christina Erneling
Professor emerita
The Limits of Mindreading
Author
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