The shared world : perceptual common knowledge, demonstrative communication, and social space /
The Shared World offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on and know about the world together with others. It develops the view that creatures capable of joint attention stand in a unique perceptual and epistemic relation to their surroundings. They operate in an environment that the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | The Shared World offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on and know about the world together with others. It develops the view that creatures capable of joint attention stand in a unique perceptual and epistemic relation to their surroundings. They operate in an environment that they, through communication with their fellow perceivers, help constitute. This environment is characterized by a specific spatial order. Joint perceivers determine the location of the object of their attention and action relative to their respective standpoints, and thus operate with a spatial frame of reference in which these standpoints are presented as centers of perception and action. The resulting theory casts light on a range of philosophical and psychological issues. The essay discusses demonstrative reference in communication, common knowledge about jointly perceived objects and spatial awareness in joint perception and -action. It integrates these social phenomena into a more general discussion about the nature of mind and argues for their crucial relevance in the context of that discussion. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 236 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262039796 0262039796 |