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April 2001
6 x 9, 433 pp., 23 illus.
$75.00/£55.95 (CLOTH)
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0-262-13386-5
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978-0-262-13386-9

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Intentions and Intentionality
Foundations of Social Cognition
Edited by Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses and Dare A. Baldwin
Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner


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Social interaction requires social cognition—the ability to perceive, interpret, and explain the actions of others. This ability fundamentally relies on the concepts of intention and intentionality. For example, people distinguish sharply between intentional and unintentional behavior; identify the intentions underlying others' behavior; explain completed actions with reference to intentions, beliefs, and desires; and evaluate the social worth of actions using the concepts of intentionality and responsibility.

Intentions and Intentionality highlights the roles these concepts play in social cognition. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it offers cutting-edge work from researchers in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology and in philosophy, primatology, and law. It includes both conceptual and empirical contributions.

About the Editors

Bertram Malle is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon. He is the editor of Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition (MIT Press, 2001).

Louis J. Moses is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.

Dare A. Baldwin is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.


Reviews

"...a new revolution is underway; the excellent volume edited by Malle, Moses, and Baldwin is the latest manifesto."
Philip David Zelazo, Contemporary Psychology





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