Dialogical Mind
Subtitle: Common Sense and Ethics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781107002555
Subjects: Knowledge, sociology of; Knowledge, theory of; Communication, social aspects; Psycholinguistics
Description: "Common Sense and Ethics Dialogue has become a central theoretical concept in human and social sciences as well as in professions such as education, health, and psychotherapy. This 'dialogical turn' emphasizes the importance of social relations and interaction to our behaviour and how we make sense of the world; hence the Dialogical Mind is the mind in interaction with others - with individuals, groups, institutions, and cultures in historical perspectives. Through a combination of rigorous theoretical work and empirical investigation, Markova presents an ethics of dialogicality as an alternative to the narrow perspective of individualism and cognitivism that has traditionally dominated the field of social psychology"--