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1 online resource (xii, 301 pages ): illustrations, maps.
Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in order to understand human agency and the aspects of mind that are associated with it, we need to grasp the crucial role of context or circumstance in action, and the normative constraints of social and cultural practices. He also investigates issues concerning social cognition and embodied intersubjective interaction, including direct social perception and the role of narrative and communicative practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. Gallagher thereby brings together embodied and enactive approaches to action for the first time in this book and, in developing an alternative to standard conceptions of understanding others, he bridges social cognition and critical social theory, drawing out the implications for recognition, autonomy, and justice.
Cover -- Action and Interaction -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Action -- 1: Actions and Abstractions -- 1.1 Pump and Circumstance -- 1.2 The Agentive Situation -- 1.3 Basic Actions -- 1.4 Basic Problems -- 2: Time in Action -- 2.1 Timing Is not Everything -- 2.2 The Intrinsic Temporality of Movement -- 2.3 Dynamical Timescales and the Sense of Agency -- 2.4 Why Action and Experience Are Enactive all the Way Down -- 2.5 Intentional Action and the Narrative Scale -- 3: Action, Intention, and the Sense of Agency
3.1 Initial Complexities in the Sense of Agency -- 3.1.1 Motor-control processes -- 3.1.2 Intentional aspects in the sense of agency -- 3.2 Intention Formation and Attribution -- 3.2.1 Intentions -- 3.2.2 Retrospective attribution -- 3.3 Ambiguities -- 3.4 Pushing this Analysis into the World -- PART II: Interaction -- 4: The Case Against Theory of Mind -- 4.1 Two Theories of Theory of Mind -- 4.2 The Science Behind ToM -- 4.3 Eight Problems for ToM -- 4.3.1 The starting problem -- 4.3.2 The diversity problem -- 4.3.3 The simple phenomenological objection -- 4.3.4 The integration problem
4.3.5 The developmental problem -- 4.3.6 Problems of pretense and instrumental control -- 4.3.7 The matching problem -- 4.3.8 Problems with the reuse hypothesis -- 5: Interaction -- 5.1 This Is IT -- 5.2 Primary Intersubjectivity -- 5.3 Secondary Intersubjectivity in Joint Attention and Joint Action -- 5.3.1 Joint attention -- 5.3.2 Joint action -- 5.4 Of Three Minds -- 6: Direct Social Perception -- 6.1 Perceiving Intentions and Emotions -- 6.1.1 Perceiving intentions -- 6.1.2 Perceiving emotions -- 6.1.3 Non-inferential perception -- 6.2 The New Hybrids -- 6.2.1 When UP is down
6.2.2 Perception and extra-perceptual inference -- 6.2.3 Predictive processing and new hybrid theories -- 6.3 Over the Top: Some Concerns from Social Psychology -- 7: Communicative Actions and Narrative Practices -- 7.1 Communicative Actions and Interactions -- 7.2 Narrative Practices -- 7.3 The Landscape of Action -- 7.4 The Massive Hermeneutical Background -- 7.5 Empathy -- 7.5.1 Empathy as mindreading -- 7.5.2 Empathy distinguished from mindreading -- 7.5.3 Empathy on the narrative timescale -- PART III: A Critical Turn -- 8: Recognition and Critical Interaction Theory
8.1 The Roots of Recognition -- 8.1.1 The summons -- 8.1.2 The struggle -- 8.1.3 The gift -- 8.2 Recognition Redux -- 8.3 Responsivity -- 8.4 Relational Autonomy and Some Possible Distortions -- 9: Telling Actions: Institutions, Collective Agency, and Critical Narratives -- 9.1 How Institutions Shape our Actions and Interactions -- 9.2 Narrative Practices and Collective Agency -- 9.2.1 Attribution of joint agency -- 9.2.2 Group identity -- 9.2.3 Stability -- 9.2.4 Responsibility -- 9.3 Critical Theory and Critical Narratives -- 9.4 Imperfect Consensus and Critical Practice
Includes bibliographical references and index.