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Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

By Naomi Eilan , Christoph Hoerl , Teresa McCormack , Johannes Roessler

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2005
ISBN
9780199245642, 0199245649
Open Library ID
OL17152710M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2553154 bytes)
Series
Consciousness and Self-Consciousness Series
Edition
1
Pages
345\345
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Some time around their first birthday, children begin to engage in ''triadic'' interactions, i.e. interactions with adults that turn specifically on both child and adult jointly attending to an object in their surroundings. Recognized as a developmental milestone amongst psychologists for some time, joint attention has recently also started to attract the attention of philosophers. This volume brings together, for the first time, psychological and philosophical perspectives on the nature and significance of joint attention. Original contributions by leading researchers in both disciplines explore the idea that joint attention has a key foundational role to play in the emergence of communicative abilities, psychological understanding, and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought. Contributors: Dare Baldwin, Josep Call, John Campbell, Naomi Eilan, Fabio Franco, Juan-Carlos Gomez, Jane Heal, R. Peter Hobson, Christoph Hoerl, Sue Leekam, Teresa McCormack, Christopher Peacocke, Vasudevi Reddy, Johannes Roessler, Mark A. Sabbagh, Michael Tomasello, Amanda L. Woodward.

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