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The shared world : perceptual common knowledge, demonstrative communication, and social space /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seemann, Axel, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Perception (Philosophy) > Social aspects.
Communication > Social aspects.
Space perception > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Conceptions of common knowledge
  • The regressive nature of perceptual common knowledge
  • Common knowledge and communication
  • Sense, reference, and communication
  • Spatial awareness and perceptual common knowledge
  • (CKMS), social externalism, and the threat of regress
  • Justification and evidence
  • Demonstrative communication and conceptions of space
  • Perspective-taking
  • Space and action
  • Social action space
  • Indexical spatial thinking
  • Joint perception
  • Some applications.