Social Cognition and the Second Person in Human Interaction

This book is a unique **exploration of the idea of the 'second person' in human interaction, the idea that face to face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding.

Autorentext

Diana I. Pérez is a full professor of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind at the Department of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and distinguished researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (SADAF-CONICET). She has written extensively on topics in metaphysics and philosophy of mind.

Antoni Gomila has been a lecturer in Philosophy of Psychology (19921999), lecturer in Psychology of Thinking and Language (19992009), and a full professor since 2010 at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research interests have turned interdisciplinary issues around the social dimension of human cognition and its evolution, as well as foundational issues in Cognitive Science.

Klappentext

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the 'second person' in human interaction, the idea that face to face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Introducing the Second Person Perspective 2. Contrasting Views of the Second Person 3. Second Person Attributions 4. Second Person Phenomena 5. Emotional Engagement and Emotion Attribution 6. Expression and the Second Person Perspective 7. The Interplay of Perspectives 8. Dissolving the Problem of Other Minds 9. The Second Person in Art 10. Second Person and Morality Epilogue