Title: Metarepresentations : a multidisciplinary perspective /
Authors: Sperber, Dan.; Sperber, Dan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Thinking; Cognition; Mental representation Congresses.; Thought and thinking Congresses; Cognitive science Congresses
Abstract: This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
Contents: Making tools for thinking / Daniel C. Dennett -- The mind beyond itself / Robert A. Wilson -- Consider the source : the evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentations / Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective / Dan Sperber -- Chimpanzee cognition and the question of mental re-representation / Andrew Whiten -- The mentalizing folk / Alvin I. Goldman -- How to acquire a representational theory of mind / Alan M. Leslie -- Metarepresentation and conceptual change : evidence from Williams syndrome / Susan Carey and Susan C. Johnson -- Consciousness and metacognition / David M. Rosenthal -- Meaning, exemplarization and metarepresentation / Keith Lehrer -- The iconicity of metarepresentations / François Recanati -- Social externalism and deference / Steven Davis -- Metarepresentations in staged communicative acts / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Metarepresentation in linguistic communication / Deirdre Wilson.